We read some fun books this week!
Bill: This week I read Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Moon, which had some good ideas but overall was disappointing; read a good if not great collection of essays, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, by Rebecca Solnit; and my son and I listened to Isaac Asimov’s classic Foundation and Empire on our way to a college visit. We’ll finish with Second Foundation on another visit in two weeks.
May 19th, 2019. Tim Scheidler | Status Update | 2 comments |
Happy Mother’s Day!
Bill: No genre books this week. Instead, I read The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair — a quick tour of the histories of individual colors that I wish had slowed down a bit more. I also read Atlas of a Lost World by Craig Childs, which explores how the first people may have arrived in the New World during the Paleolithic. It’s also an engaging travelogue as Childs himself hikes across a portion of the Harding Icefield, canoes up the Yukon,
May 12th, 2019. Tim Scheidler | Status Update | no comments |
Happy Cinco de Mayo, everyone!
Bill: This week I read The Seventh Decimate and The War Within by Stephen R. Donaldson, with book one sorely disappointing and book two a bit better; the informative if a bit flat The American Museum of Natural History and How it Got That Way by Colin Davey; and an entertaining history/memoir of the family road trip by Richard Ratay entitled appropriately enough Don’t Make Me Pull Over. In audio The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years by Robert M.
May 5th, 2019. Tim Scheidler | Status Update | 6 comments |
Lots of great books this week!
Bill: This week I read Guy Gavriel Kay’s fantastic A Brightness Long Ago, which was just as compelling and moving as when I read it the first time two weeks ago. I also read Tad Williams’ Empire of Grass, an excellent if overlong continuation of his OSTEN ARD series. In media, what a weekend. The family and I saw Avengers: Endgame and despite some quibbles, I would have happily stayed straight through the following showing.
April 28th, 2019. Tim Scheidler | Status Update | 7 comments |
Happy Easter from FanLit!
Bill: Into the grading silly season this week and next, but I did read Guy Gavriel Kay’s newest, A Brightness Long Ago. Review to come shortly but c’mon, it’s Kay—could it be anything but full of grace, craft, and beauty? I also finished Human Errors by Nathan H. Lents, a quick (even slight at times) look at all the ways the human body could have been designed better. In audio, I’ve neared the end, sadly, of Mark Miodownik’s excellent Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives.
April 21st, 2019. Tim Scheidler | Status Update | 2 comments |
Plenty more fun books on the docket this week!
Bill: This week I read the quietly engaging A Boy and His Dog at the end of the World by C.A. Fletcher; Scott Westerfeld’s Imposters (actually read last week), a solid but more YA and less satisfying return to the world of Uglies; and I’m currently in the midst of Human Errors by Nathan H. Lents, a light but interesting look at all the design flaws in our bodies (though he has yet to get to the one that prevents me from eating all the ice cream I want.).
April 14th, 2019. Tim Scheidler | Status Update | 1 comment |
We’re reading some great books this week!
Bill: This week I took advantage of a momentary lull between papers to read the eighth EXPANSE book, Tiamat’s Wrath, by James S.A. Corey (keeps this great series humming along) as well as Philip Reeve’s Station Zero, the strong conclusion to his excellent YA trilogy that began with Railhead. Outside the genre I read (or reread since many were familiar) Seamus Heaney’s 100 Poems.
April 7th, 2019. Tim Scheidler | Status Update | 3 comments |
According to whom you ask, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is either a campy, inexplicably popular teen drama from the 90s, or it’s some of the best television ever made. Not to say that the show can’t be both, because in fact it is. The karate kicks and monster makeup one step up from Halloween masks were corny even for the time, and I for one would never have expected a show with such a — let’s face it — silly premise to acquire a fan following so strong that it has persisted for over twenty years.
April 3rd, 2019. Tim Scheidler´s rating: 4 | Kiersten White | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
As March draws to a close, we have plenty more books on the docket!
Kat: The worst part of my semester is behind me and now I am making myself get off the computer and relax by 8:00pm every night, so I’m getting more reading done. I’ve joined a jigsaw puzzle swap club, so each night, if there’s nothing else going on, I work on a puzzle and listen to an audiobook. This week I read these books: The Face in the Frost by John Bellairs (an amusing fantasy classic),
March 31st, 2019. Tim Scheidler | Status Update | 2 comments |
We have some more books in the pipeline this week. Check them out!
Bill: This week I read the quite good A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine and continue to listen the fantastic Heart: A History by Sandeep Jauhar. In media, I rewatched the last Avengers movie because I can only watch the trailers for Endgameso many times, and I’ve been watching a few episodes a night of Netflix’s new anthology series, Love,
March 24th, 2019. Tim Scheidler | Status Update | no comments |
Looking forward to reading the review.
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