Category: Book Report

I am aware that John Gardner was a bit of an asshole. That doesn’t bother me much. I can like John Gardner and John Barth. I’m postmodern that way. Also, when somebody puts on his business card Prof. John C….

It appears that if you search this Tohu Bohu for entries that contain the string “scalzi”, you will find a list of 28 entries. Twenty-eight. It’s like YHB has a crush on him or something. Which is not true, by…

It seems I haven’t written a Puff Piece about my favorite picture-book writer, Margaret Mahy. I recently read a collection of her not-picture-book stories called The Chewing-Gum Rescue and other stories, and the quality was mixed. The title story was…

Hot Money is the inheritance one. It’s one of my favorites, although I’m not sure why. There’s no romance at all, and although our hero does get a bit roughed up a bit, he doesn’t show the kind of perseverance…

Gentle Readers will remember that I was knocked out loaded by Never Let Me Go. Seriously. Very Good Book. Second time through a Very Good Book is a delicate thing. I am inclined to be a bit tentative. Foreshadowing, although…

Your Humble Blogger is late with the Book Reports. Yep. It’s been almost a month since I wrote one, and even with the amount of physical energy I’ve been using, I have read, let’s see, eight books since then. At…

Sadly, Lady Friday had all the flaws of Sir Thursday, but magnified because Your Humble Blogger just read Thursday a month ago. Again, there were good bits—I particularly liked the portrayal of Friday herself as an addict, terrifying and pathetic,…

Back when I read Babe: The Gallant Pig, I reported mostly on the adaptation for the excellent movie, but I didn’t make it clear that I quite liked the book as well. Which I did. Now, I happened to come…

I believe that Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance is one of those plays that theeyater people know about, without ever having read, much less seen it. John Arden is still around and working (there was a collection of short stories out in…