Category: Book Report

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I think this is the first time I re-read The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, the first book in Laurie R. King’s Mary Russell series. As with many series, the first book is clearly made with a series in mind, but not with…

Well, and I had several times picked up Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell from the library shelf, hefted it in my hand, and returned it to the shelf. It looked interesting enough, in a general sort of way, but not…

Well, and I’m sure I’ve mentioned here a few times that John Scalzi’s Whatever is one of the few blogs I read daily that are written by people I’ve never met. One of the main themes of his blog (and…

Well, and Your Humble Blogger has read twelve of the fifteen stories in McSweeney’s Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories, and I’m going to return it to the library tomorrow, so I think I’ll go ahead and add this to the…

Longtime Gentle Readers of this Tohu Bohu will be aware that Bleak House is one of my favorite books. Well, and my Best Reader finally acceded to its choice as a bedtime book. This is, over the last ten or…

At some point recently, Your Humble Blogger was scanning the shelves looking for a book to re-read. I was in the mood for something funny, a bit wild, a bit serious, something that I had read before but not too…

There isn’t any actual horseracing in Driving Force, but for those of you Dick Francis fans who miss that sort of thing, they did run the Grand National today. That’s a BBC link, bye-the-bye, and from there you can link…

Somehow, Your Humble Blogger was unaware that Walter Mosley (of Easy Rawlins fame) wrote specfic. I had actually drifted over to that library shelf to somewhat reluctantly pick up a mystery (I only enjoyed one of the two of his…

So, whilst browsing at the library a couple of weeks ago, Your Humble Blogger picked up two recent books featuring an older, post-Doyle, Sherlock Holmes. One was a well-reviewed new book, borrowed off the new book shelf for only seven…