Previous SFF Author: Alyson Noel
The Wisdom of the Shire by Noble Smith
Hobbits constantly surprise Elf kings, dragons, and Dark Lords with their courage and valiant spirit, but we rarely associate them with wisdom. Thankfully, Noble Smith’s The Wisdom of the Shire: A Short Guide to a Long and Happy Life exists to correct our mistake. Wisdom of the Shire is one part self-help book and one part homage to Hobbit wisdom.
Smith divides his work into a series of essays,
September 24th, 2014. Ryan Skardal´s rating: 3 | J.R.R. Tolkien | Non-fiction | SFF Reviews | no comments |
When Travels begins, Crichton is a student at Harvard Medical School, sawing into cadavers with his peers. He nearly faints at the sight of blood, but he is a talented and diligent student. Crichton shares the objections and concerns that would ultimately drive him from medicine, a decision perhaps made easier by the fact that he had already begun to experience success as a writer of spy novels. However, more than anything, it seems that Crichton began to doubt that doctors are capable of helping people.
June 20th, 2014. Ryan Skardal´s rating: 4 | Michael Crichton | Non-fiction | SFF Reviews | no comments |
What Makes This Book So Great by Jo Walton
In 2008, Jo Walton began a regular column over at Tor.com on the books she was reading. Actually, mostly re-reading. She was invited to blog on the site because, as Patrick Nielsen Hayden told her, she was “always saying smart things about books nobody else had thought about for ages.” In What Makes This Book So Great, she’s collected about a fifth of those posts and presented them in brief essays, being careful to point out she is doing so as neither a reviewer (who mostly cover new works) nor a critic.
March 26th, 2014. Bill Capossere´s rating: 4 | Jo Walton | Non-fiction | SFF Reviews | 4 comments |
How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy by Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card is an award-winning author of dozens of science fiction and fantasy books, including the Hugo and Nebula award winning Ender’s Game. So who else would you turn to for instruction on how to write a science fiction and fantasy novel? I’m working on a novel — isn’t everyone these days? — and picked up How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy for some instruction. I’m used to writing for an academic audience,
March 15th, 2013. Ruth Arnell´s rating: 2.5 | Orson Scott Card | Hugo Award, Non-fiction | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
Superman: The High-Flying History of America’s Most Enduring Hero by Larry Tye
It’s hard to imagine that there is anything more to say about Superman than has already been covered in the slew of books published on the topic. But, since I’ve not read many of those books (though I have read a lot dealing with superheroes in general), I’m not the one to say how much new material Larry Tye covers in his retrospective entitled Superman: The High-Flying History of America’s Most Enduring Hero (2012).
June 8th, 2012. Bill Capossere´s rating: 4 | Comics, Non-fiction | SFF Reviews | no comments |
It must be difficult to write a biography of someone who is still living, who has not donated his papers to a library where one can get access to them, who is still active in his career, and who has a healthy sense of privacy. Even when the subject agrees to an interview, a biographer has to be aware that the subject is telling what he wants to tell and leaving out that which he does not care to discuss. If the interviewee is sufficiently charming, or is completely forthright on a particular subject that casts him in a poor light,
September 11th, 2011. Terry Weyna´s rating: 1.5 | Stephen King | Non-fiction | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft is not just for aspiring writers or Stephen King fans. I’m neither, but I was completely entertained by On Writing. The first half of the book is Stephen King’s autobiography of his first 50 years of life. He talks about his family, his childhood adventures with his brother, his relationship with his wife, some of the inspiration and research for his stories, how his alcohol and drug abuse affected his writing,
September 9th, 2007. Kat Hooper and Jason Golomb´s rating: 5 | Stephen King | Non-fiction | SFF Reviews | no comments |
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Fly Fishing is the Answer!
I guess I'll have to read these.
I'd IMAGINE so, never having read that other book or seen the film....
So, more in the territory of A River Runs Through It than Siddhartha? ;-)
No Buddha mentioned in the book, but he DOES seem to suggest that fly fishing = true happiness....