Category: Book Report

The thing about Gil’s All Fright Diner is pretty evident from the title. It’s a joke, see. It’s just not a terribly funny one. Actually, the bits that aren’t jokes in Gil’s work better than the bits that are. I…

I’ve had a soft spot for Bill Mauldin since discovering a book of his on my parents shelf when I was ever so small, and thought it was great that there was this comic book for grownups. That book may…

The latest book in Garth Nix’s Keys to the Kingdom series is Drowned Wednesday, and it’s a doozy. Lots of unexpected stuff, from how Wednesday was drowned to a nice little cliffhanger surprise at the end. One thing that is…

I’m sure the name Kage Baker has come up recently, possibly in a list of nominees, or perhaps she is one of those hot young writers that are friends of friends of friends, and I see her name whilst browsing…

YHB had read one or two of Eva Ibbotson’s books, and I liked ’em well enough, or so I think I remember. I picked up The Star of Kazan (Dutton) from my new local library because it looked good…

When YHB got Locked Rooms out from my erstwhile local library, it reminded me that The Game was likely to be out in paperback. This was, in fact, the case, and a copy was purchased and read. I am fond…

I don’t remember whether I read Pride and Prejudice when I was a teenager. Probably I did, although I didn’t remember a scrap of it. It’s equally likely that I read some other Jane Austen book or books, and decided…

I had mentioned a couple of months ago (I had written a couple of moths ago but it was many more moths than that) that it had been at least a year and a half since I read Mirror Dance….

The last book I had my wonderful local library hold for me before leaving town was Locked Rooms, the latest Mary Russell book by Laurie R. King. I found it a very annoying book, although there were some exciting bits,…

Although what with one thing and another, YHB hadn’t expected to read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince for a while yet, it turned out that a copy came to hand almost immediately, and then there was this all-day car…