A Swiftly Tilting Planet is the third book in the Time Quintet. In A Wrinkle in Time, Meg, Calvin, and Mr. Murray had all the adventures. In A Wind in the Door, it’s again Meg and Calvin with the addition of Meg’s former principal (Charles Wallace’s current principal). Book three finally lets Charles Wallace start adventuring! He also gets a unicorn to ride around on. The Murrays get a shocking phone call at Thanksgiving dinner. There’s a dictator in Patagonia (I think) who wants to […]
24th Century Schizoid Botanist
In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker
I looked back and I can’t believe it’s been almost three years since I wrote a review of Still Life, the first book in Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache series. I’ve been so happy to see a lot of you are enjoying them too. The Company series by Kage Baker is my next recommendation, but I’m not going to promise you’ll like them. I will say that I love them, and I hope you do too. Of course you must pick up the first book, In the […]
Do you disapprove of minstrels, too?
I often geek out when visiting historical sites. The whole “OMG, so and so ACTUALLY walked here, lived here, died here…” gets me every time. No surprise then that Juliana Gray’s dedication in “A Strange Scottish Shore” definitely spoke to me: To all those who have stood where history was made and felt its echo.” This is the second in what I truly hope is a continuing series about a no-nonsense administrator, Emmeline Truelove, her employer, the Duke of Olympia, and her would be paramour, […]
Dinosaurs aren’t fun, they are terrifying: A public service message by K.A. Applegate.
So this is the one where the Animorphs get blown back in time 65 million years by a nuclear explosion, and they fight dinosaurs and almost get eaten a bunch of times and discover that the Earth wasn’t always as alien free as we thought. I mean, you hear that premise, and you think, Ooh, fun! Dinosaurs! Time travel! But this book is the Animorphs doing dinosaurs and time travel, so that means it’s all kinds of messed up. No Jurassic Park wonder and fun times to be found. […]
Two books to wrap up my CBR9
So my CBR9 didn’t go quite as planned. I took on a lot of extra work for my job, which cut down on my reading, and was sick for a pretty large chunk of the year, so I’m not going to really come close to the double cannonball I had planned. Still, what amounts to basically a one-and-a-half cannonball is nothing to sneeze at. The Passage by Justin Cronin (4 stars) I’m having trouble wrapping my head around the apparent fact that “only” 10 reviews […]
Seven novellas, all are good, two are excellent.
Seven Stones to Stand or Fall is a 500ish page collection of (mostly) novellas set in Gabaldon’s Outlander universe. All but two of the novellas were previously published in short story anthologies. The remaining two are new. I do not recommend picking up this collection if you aren’t already a fan of the books. Most of the stories would be entertaining enough to read, but you’re not going to get optimal enjoyment out of them without the context of the main series (or the Lord John […]
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