Having mentioned my bedtime reading habits, it’s probably a good time to record that the first bedtime book of 2004 was Moo, a remarkable and hilarious novel of life at a large research university in the Great American Midwest. I’ll…
In Which Your Humble Blogger compares the book to Monopoly in Spain.
Back when Your Humble Blogger had access to such things as shoddy microfilm of the Saturday Evening Post from the twenties, I managed to read the Original Ending to Leave it to Psmith. The difference is a thousand words, more…
Straight was one of the first Dick Francis novels I read. It was also one of my least favorite. I donated my copy to a library in 1994, after having read it twice, and didn’t really think much about reading…
If I am counting correctly, and I’m probably not, this is YHB’s ninetieth book report of the year. The first was A Letter of Mary, my least favorite of the Laurie R. King Mary Russell series. I also read Justice…
Your Humble Blogger belongs to a shul. That’s right, an actual membership, with High Holidays tickets and all, just like a grown-up. It’s a great shul, with a great rabbi, and I’m learning a lot and thinking a lot, and…
Two weeks ago, Chris Cobb recommended Ombria in Shadow when I said that I enjoyed a different Patricia McKillip book. I picked up this one, and enjoyed it far more than the previous one. There are flaws, of course, and…
YHB read The Dragon Quintet with low expectations, and it pretty much fulfilled them. The novella or novelette or whatever is an awkward form, I think. It’s too long to just be a quick introduction to an idea of a…
I was looking for a bathtub book, something to distract me from the politics of the moment, so I grabbed The Last of the Wine off the shelf. As I remembered, it’s the most straightforward love story of Mary Renault’s…
YHB is getting behind again on these Book Reports. Keeping up is difficult, and requires less reading and more blogging; if I spend enough time on these book reports, I won’t be able to do much more reading, and I’ll…