Category: Book Report

Your Humble Blogger happened to get lucky and find a copy of Anansi Boys at the local library, well, the next-library-over-from-local, so I didn’t have to decide whether I wanted to buy it in hardback or not. And I’m glad,…

Your Humble Blogger recently read his very first Perry Mason book, The Case of the Singing Skirt. I had assumed, with I think some reason, that Erle Stanley Gardner was a total hack, and that there wasn’t any particular reason…

OK, do you know the thing where you’ve just dropped by the library to drop off books, and you take a few minutes at the strategically-near-the-dropoff-slot rack of CDs, and you grab half-a-dozen of them because you’ve been driving in…

Judging entirely by its cover, YHB had very low expectations of Crux. I don’t (as we’ve covered before in this Tohu Bohu) read or enjoy much short fiction, so as far as I can recall I hadn’t come across the…

Now and then I pick up a Terry Pratchett book from the library. I find there are usually about four, maybe six funny bits in the book, and the rest of it goes by pretty quickly, particularly if one is…

Well, and Orson Scott Card annoys me. Not just as a person and a commenter on public affairs, in which capacity he is probably no more annoying than, say, Dennis Prager or Michelle Malkin or a dozen others. I don’t…

One thing about enjoying an occasional re-read of Dick Francis books is that when one’s personal stash is in boxes, the library is bound to have plenty of others. I picked up Forfeit because I don’t own a copy and…

I think the reason I picked up Jean Ferris’ Once Upon a Marigold off the library shelf was that the library shelf in question was the Nutmeg shelf, and on the whole, the Nutmeg seems to be pretty good. If…

An email specfic discussion group that includes Your Humble Blogger chose as this autumn’s books the Chrestomanci novels of Diana Wynne Jones. I had read them, a year or two ago, and actually own them. Sadly, all my paperbacks are…

See, here’s the thing about Ellery Queen books. Frequently (I would say almost always, but in fact I’ve read maybe half-a-dozen books out of approximately thirty-eight thousand) the murderer deliberately sets out to trap Ellery by leaving complicated false clues…