Madeleine’s War is nominally about a woman who is accepted into SC2, the book’s version of the real SOE, and sent behind enemy lines in advance of D-Day to prepare saboteur networks for the coming invasion. The book follows her through training and through to the end of her service. She falls in love with her superior, Matthew Hammond, and learns a great deal about herself and her past as the novel progresses. Unfortunately, the book has two very serious flaws. Read the […]
The Banal Torture Porn of Puberty
All men are delusional. At least, that’s what I took from this book. This book is utterly impossible. I have mentioned before that I made a deal with myself that I would finish absolutely every book I started, no matter how much I hated it, in order to review it. This book really tested my patience and utterly destroyed by 6-books-ahead-of-schedule pace for Cannonball Read. Read the rest at Pop Culture Penalty Box.
To Hell By Compass
In your face, Neil Armstrong! Finally, hard sci-fi with a sense of humor. This is the story of Mark Watney, who has been stranded on Mars when the rest of his crew abandon him for dead. It’s not their fault. They believed he was dead already. This is a shipwreck story, but the man marooned is stuck in a barren wasteland where communication with Earth is just this side of impossible and the only music he has is disco. How will he survive? Will […]