Avalanche by Patrick McManus
Quantum Moon by Denise Vitola
I grew up reading (and being read aloud to) Patrick McManus’s stories and essays about his (hopefully highly embellished) childhood, with such wonderful names as The Night the Bear Ate Goombah and Real Ponies Don’t Go Oink. When I saw that he’d written an actual book – a mystery novel – I had to … [Read more]
Dear Reading Community, Spookiness? What is spookiness? What you find spooky, I might not. And bad behavior? Boy you really don't want to read some of those classics then! (Bible, Dickens, Hardy Boys) Thank you, A fellow reader … [Read more]
The Rainmaker by John Grisham
This is one of those other kinds of John Grisham novels. In general, even among his legal thrillers, there's two types of John Grisham novels. The tightly-plotted thriller like The Pelican Brief or The Runaway Jury is one type. In this type, the pacing is fast, it's a puzzle being formed in front of … [Read more]
Tyrant by Stephen Greenblatt
I love a good subtweet. This is probably the most elaborate subtweet I've ever read too. In the book, Stephen Greenblatt looks at several examples of Shakespeare writing about tyrants, using a wide definition of what exactly makes a tyrant as his model. In general, he's thinking about rulers who do … [Read more]
The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin
Cannonball Read Square: Star I received this book as a gift for the Cannonball Read Book Exchange last year, so that alone bumped it up my to-read pile. I've gotten more into science fiction in the past few years, and I'm always excited to read from non-American viewpoints, so it was an obvious … [Read more]
A Curse of Queens by Amanda Bouchet.
Amanda Bouchet returns to the world of her Kingmaker Chronicles with a new book that focuses on Griffin's younger sister, Jocasta, and his best friend, Flynn. Now that Cat and Griffin are installed as the Queen and King of a newly united Thalyria, they can no longer go adventuring. So when Cat is … [Read more]
