By latest count, Your Humble Blogger is sixteen books behind in this Book Report business. Some of them were pretty good, too. Others, not so much. Gregor the Overlander was a fairly good one. It had one of my least…
Hmf. Your Humble Blogger hasn’t Reported on a Book for lo these many, and was behind for a while before that, so it’s been quite some weeks since Curse of Chalion was finished. And since it was the third (or…
Your Humble Blogger has a bit of a weakness, I’m afraid, for historical novels. Too much Mary Renault when young, perhaps. I’ve read some lovely books, and some dreadful ones, and quite a few dull ones. Philippa Gregory’s The Virgin’s…
Your Humble Blogger is behind in Book Reports, although no further behind than in actual blog notes. Not that for actual blog notes I am actually behind anything, as I don’t have a long list of things that I am…
Not much to add to my earlier note on Paladin of Souls. I enjoyed re-reading it, and I sucked it down in about a day and a half, putting aside other stuff to keep at it, and still don’t think…
My skepticism about the Hugo-worthiness of the competent and enjoyable Old Man’s War notwithstanding, I was looking forward to reading The Ghost Brigades. I needn’t think a book is all awardable’n’stuff to be a good read, and OMW was a…
What makes a good bathtub book? Well, and I pose that question generally, as if there were a general answer. There isn’t. People are different, one to another, and (as YHB may have mentioned before) that’s what makes the world…
Just awful chazak, chazak, v’nitchazek,-Vardibidian….
So the odd thing about Louis Sachar, from my point of view, is that although I liked Holes all right (I really liked the beginning, but was a trifle disappointed with the middle and end), my Perfect Non-Reader simply adored…
I enjoyed reading Jimmy Carter’s little book on Our Endangered Values. It wasn’t a very good book, though. It’s sloppy and poorly constructed, and fails to stick to its knitting. Still, I found it inspiring in places. As far as…