Category: Book Report

Your Humble Blogger has, if memory is to be believed, read six or seven novels by Sheri S. Tepper. I’m not sure why I keep at it. Yes, she’s remarkable at creating worlds, and yes, she writes very well, but…

In the second half of January, Your Humble Blogger read to his Perfect non-Reader … Rosemary Wells, Don’t Spill It Again, James; the title story, along with Skokie and Goodnight, Sweet Prince. Up to her standard. Else Holmelund Minarik, A…

Beryl Bainbridge, According to Queenie (New York: Carrol & Graf 2001) Awful, just awful. I won’t waste my time or yours on details. Redintegro Iraq,-Vardibidian….

Your Humble Blogger picked up Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories (New York: Berkley 1986) by Agatha Christie, who was for many years the single most popular writer in the English language. Or so I remember hearing; it may not…

Judith Tarr, Kingdom of the Grail (New York: Roc 2000). Nothing much to say about this fantasy novel; Merlin’s descendant takes on Ultimate Evil and finds True Love in the Medieval Pyranees. I found it readable, but my Best Reader…

Amongst the picture books Your Humble Blogger read to his Perfect Non-Reader in 2004 in the first two weeks of 2004 (to keep the list at reasonable length; I’ll break it up into two entries): Margaret Mahy, 17 Kings and…

Having recently told Gentle Readers all to avoid any John Barnes book other than One for the Morning Glory (New York: Tor Fantasy 1996), Your Humble Blogger of course picked up at the library Apostrophes & Apocalypses, (New York: Tor…

In the process of overdosing on faux-medieval novels, Your Humble Blogger read Dragon’s Lair, by Sharon Kay Penman (New York: Putnam 2003). It was fine; I could imagine reading another, and enjoying it. In the Author’s Note, though, Ms. Penman…

I don’t know whether Aaron McGruder’s A Right to be Hostile (New York: Three Rivers Press 2003) counts as a New Book or as a Reread. I mean, it’s a collection of comic strips, and I read most of them…

Like many people, I read Orson Scott Card’s Seventh Son(New York: Tor 1987) and went nuts for the world of Hatrack River and Vigor Church. I was eager for the next in the Alvin Maker series, and if Red Prophet…