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Venting my spleen
A little over a month ago I got an MRI to figure out what was wrong with my back. Turns out it was a slipped disc but also...
"...when we were reading the results of your MRI, we noticed that your spleen was bigger than normal"
To which I thought, "Lady, have you seen me? Everything is bigger than normal on me."
"This usually isn't a big deal, but ( Read more... ) -
Review Gnomon-clature
Hi,
The first book I read in 2018 might very well be the best book I'll read in 2018.
That book is Gnomon by Nick Harkaway. I'm a bit of a fan of Mr. Harkaway ever since reading his first, amazing, book The Gone Away World, though I always considered his first book to be his best. Well, that's no longer true.
Gnomon takes place in a near-future ( Read more... ) -
The Review of Reviews -- books read in 2017
Hi,
I haven't even compiled the list yet and I already know my reading rate was terrible this year. I probably didn't even average out to a book a week. Anyway, here's what I read:- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- The Dictator's Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith
- Silent Hall by N S Dolkart
- The Skill of Our Hands by ( Read more... )
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Final books of 2017
Hey,
A little late, but here are the last two books I read through for 2017. The second one I mostly finished in 2018 but I started it in 2017 so it still counts.
First up, Ruin of Angels by Max Gladstone. This is the sixth novel in his Craft Sequence of fantasy novels and, as usual, it was a great read. Generally, each of the stories in the ( Read more... ) -
The Nomadic Running Review
Hi,
Got through a couple more books.
First up, Nomadland by Jessica Bruder. Ms. Bruder spins a journalistic investigation into a full-length book about how people (many of them older) are taking to the road and living in RVs, Campers, even modified Priuses. You may have an image of happy retirees rolling about in their RV, but these folks are ( Read more... ) -
Age of Rusty Reviews
Hey,
I managed to pick up the pace on my reading so it hasn't been a month since the last review!
First up Age of Assassins by RJ Barker. As I've said, I prefer my heroes a bit on the older side these days because I am and I enjoy reading about characters who aren't driven by teenage emotions. You Die When You Die was a pretty good book but ( Read more... ) -
Four Reviews
Hey,
OK, let's knock out reviews of the books I've read lately:
First up, Fifth Ward: First Watch by Dale Lucas. This is a fantasy police procedural. Rem wakes up in the drunk tank of Fifth Ward in the city of Yenara. Assisting the watch in a jailhouse brawl gets Rem a spot on the Watch and a grumpy Dwarven partner named Torval. As Rem ( Read more... ) -
Great Northern Review?
Hey,
I"m way behind on reviews of the stuff I've been reading lately so let's try to fix that up.
To start with, I finished off the audiobook of Great Northern? by Arthur Ransome. This is the last in his Swallows and Amazons series of books about plucky British children having adventures in various English countryside locations. I've now ( Read more... ) -
The Narconomic Prey of Reviews
Hey,
I am still reading books. Let's get to it.
First up:The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden. This book started off really rocky for me, but picked up considerably by the end. The setting is a near-future South Africa where people have personal robots and advanced genetic engineering to bring back some extinct species. It also has an ancient ( Read more... ) -
Reviews in Spaaace
Hey,
I'm clearly off my reading feed. It's been over a month but I've only got two books to talk about. I'm hoping summer travel plans will give me some downtime to help catch up my pace.
Anyway, first up we have Off Rock by Kieran Shea. This was sold to me as a space heist book and I guess it is, but it's a bit more like "the gang that couldn ( Read more... )