Category: Book Report

Frank Portman may not be known to Gentle Readers as Dr. Frank of The Mr. T Experience. I don’t think I would have recognized his name myself. My own collection of early nineties pop-punk is pretty limited. Mostly because I…

Feed started off really well. “We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.” In fact, the whole first section, maybe forty pages, where they were on the moon was pretty good. Our…

Well, and Your Humble Blogger should have something to say about his third time through Cordelia’s Honor in three years. I really should. Um … ok, here’s the question: how come there aren’t more people with the same first names,…

Yes, having read through I, Claudius, and having a copy of the sequel to hand, Your Humble Blogger was unable to help himself. This despite knowing that the book isn’t very good, that I hadn’t enjoyed it the last time,…

Some Gentle Readers may have been wondering whether I have given up the Book Reports. Some Gentle Readers may actually have been hoping that I had given up the Book Reports, I suppose. In fact, Your Humble Blogger hasn’t been…

I’m not altogether sure why my totals for 2006 were so different from 2005 and 2004. In 2004, I read 119 books; in 2005, I read 118; in 2006, I read 99. Eliminating books I had read before, I read…

The last book that Your Humble Blogger completed in 2006 was Charlotte’s Web, which we have been reading aloud in stages to our Perfect Non-Reader. She liked it a lot, except for the part where Charlotte died. Because she’s a…

One of the last books I read in 2006 was Califia’s Daughters, which I had read two years ago or so, and more or less liked, although I had noticed that the pacing was seriously off. The first hundred and…

I suspect that my dissatisfaction with Charles de Lint’s Widdershins will not be shared with many of my Gentle Readers. It is, I think, the sort of thing referred to as Hard Fantasy, which should certainly not be a strike…

I hadn’t read The Mask of Apollo in ever so long, so when I went to the shelf looking for some comfort book, something to read without worry or strain, I hunted that one out. It was only moderately successful….