Category: Book Report

In Which Your Humble Blogger doesn’t for some reason, talk about the ending, when all the …

In Which a book is weighed and found heavy.

In Which I like a thing more than I thought I would, which is a sort of win-win situation, only it’s really only me doing the winning.

In Which Your Humble Blogger spends much of the note talking specifically about the details of the ending, so, Gentle Reader, if you haven’t read it (or finished it), maybe don’t click through.

So, my main complaint with Lois McMaster Bujold’s book Sharing Knife 2: The Legacy was that there was very little plot. Now, I’ve said before (and I’ll say again) that Ms. Bujold is particularly and peculiarly good at plot, specifically…

Things YHB looks for in Thursday Next books: very bad puns, particularly involving characters with goofy names; audience-participation Shakespeare; puns even worse than the other ones. Things YHB does not look for in Thursday Next books: jokes about how slothful…

Your Humble Blogger reread A Civil Campaign. It was fun. It’s a perfect bathtub book in many ways, not least that it’s a small, cheap paperback. I found myself enjoying the goofiness of the “science” fiction this time through. There…

I happened to pick up Mainspring at the library, because I’ve heard good things about it, and about Jay Lake, and I was looking for something easy and fun. And it was, largely, easy, and the beginning was fun. It’s…

Your Humble Blogger’s previous experience with Michael Chabon’s books was not entirely positive. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay didn’t live up to its wonderful first third, and The Final Solution did nothing for me whatsoever. So when I…

So. I finished rereading the Dalemark quartet with The Crown of Dalemark. Again, mostly enjoyable, but not really great. The odd thing I noticed when reading Crown was the time factor. In this one, there’s a more-or-less modern girl who…