Bill: I’m traveling so haven’t been on in a while and reading is sporadic. But since my last time, I think I’ve read (I may be missing one or two): Beneath the Twisted Trees by Bradley Beaulieu, This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, Robot Generation by Terri Favro, Big Sky by Kate Atkinson. In audio my son and I finished Foundation and Empire and Part One of Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov as we drove.
July 21st, 2019. Tim Scheidler | Status Update | 3 comments |
Holy Sister (2019), the third and final book in Mark Lawrence‘s BOOK OF THE ANCESTOR series, is a satisfying, well-crafted ending to an inventive series. Lawrence, at this point a veteran in the trenches of Heroic Fantasy, wraps things up with what’s probably his greatest assurance of the series, and though the tropes on display will be familiar to fans of the genre (and of Lawrence’s earlier work), they add up to an engaging and often thrilling finale.
July 19th, 2019. Tim Scheidler´s rating: 4 | Mark Lawrence | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Lots more fun books this week!
Jana: This coming week I’ll be starting Mercedes Lackey’s The Hills Have Spies, the first volume in the FAMILY SPIES trilogy within the larger VALDEMAR universe, so that I can understand what’s going on in Eye Spy, the just-published second volume. I haven’t read any of Lackey’s work before, but I’m well aware that she’s widely considered to be a cornerstone of the fantasy genre, so I’m curious to see how I respond to her style.
July 14th, 2019. Tim Scheidler | Status Update | 2 comments |
A belated happy Independence Day to our American readers, and a great collection of summer reads!
Kat: Now that my freshmen are getting the hang of things, I was able to consume a few books this week: Bewitched and Betrothed is the newest book in Juliet Blackwell’s WITCHCRAFT MYSTERIES. These are so good in audio format. In The Shadow of Spindrift House was a creepy little Lovecraftian work by Mira Grant. Also Lovecraftian was The Labyrinth Index,
July 7th, 2019. Tim Scheidler | Status Update | 4 comments |
Another week, more fun books!
Jana: This week I waited for new glasses to arrive; I finally admitted to myself that experiencing constant eyestrain-related headaches and just scooting my monitor closer are not long-term solutions to everything becoming increasingly blurry. So while I can still read books in short spurts if I hold them just so, and I can get reviews written by hand, I’m spending less time at the computer than I would like. It is…frustrating, to say the least. I finished Mira Grant’s In the Shadow of Spindrift House and read Jane Yolen &
June 30th, 2019. Tim Scheidler | Status Update | 3 comments |
Plenty more fun books this week!
Bill: This week my one full book was an excellent look at the use of remote sensing in science, Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past by Sarah Parcak. I made a second attempt at Tide of Stone by Kaaron Warren, but only got a bit more than a third of the way in before giving it up once more. In shorter works, I took a look at several Hugo retro works: short stories by Asimov,
June 23rd, 2019. Tim Scheidler | Status Update | 1 comment |
As summer goes on, we’re reading some new books.
Bill: This week I read a solid alien contact novel — The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull, an absolutely captivating look at the explorations and ramifications of the Greenland ice sheet — The Ice at the End of the World by Jon Gertner, and an interesting but at times too detailed look at the impact of discovering carbon 14 — Hot Carbon: Carbon 14 and a Revolution in Science by John F.
June 16th, 2019. Tim Scheidler | Status Update | 1 comment |
Another week, and we’re still reading plenty of fun books!
Bill: This week I continued through some Locus nominees, reading The Quantum Magician by Derek Künsken, If Tomorrow Comes by Nancy Kress, and my personal favorite among them, the historical fiction The Hunger by Alma Katsu about the Donner Party. I started Tide of Stone by Kaaron Warren, but only gave it about 60 pages before stopping (the voice just didn’t do it for me),
June 9th, 2019. Tim Scheidler | Status Update | no comments |
Another week, more books!
Bill: This week I read several Locus nominees: The Red-Stained Wings by Elizabeth Bear, Ahab’s Return by Jeffrey Ford, and In the Night Wood by Dale Bailey. In TV, my son and I are still enjoying The Magicians season four, and I’ ambout three-quarters of the way through Cloak and Dagger season two, which is a bit more uneven in the latter half but I’m still mostly impressed by.
Kat: My mom broke her foot so I was out of town helping her this week and only got one book read: Paul Tremblay’s The Cabin at the End of the World,
June 2nd, 2019. Tim Scheidler | Status Update | 1 comment |
Plenty of books this week!
Bill: This week I read several of the Locus short fiction nominees as well as a pair of nominated YA novels: The Gone Away Place by Christopher Barzak and Half-Witch by John Schoffstall. I’m also half-way through The Red-Stained Wings by Elizabeth Bear, book two of her LOTUS KINGDOMS series. Not much genre viewing save for an episode of The Magicians, as I’m binging Deadwood (just as great the second time around) in preparation for the upcoming movie.
May 26th, 2019. Tim Scheidler | Status Update | 5 comments |
Looking forward to reading the review.
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