The first day I bought this book, I sat on my desk and told myself I’d just read a chapter before I go to bed.That was 9pm.No matter how hardI tried, I could not put the book down.I found myself teary eyed, readingthe ending, at 5am the next morning.Intending to read just the first fewpages, [...]
We met Max Shannon, the human cop, in one of the earlier books in the series. He is friends with Tally and Clay, members of the Dark River shapeshifter pack. While being handsome and strong, Max is regular in most ways except for the natural mental shield that he has against Psy manipulation. It’s been [...]
In quintessential Robinsonian non-fiction style (intelligent, well-read, affirmative, sarcastic), Marilynne Robinson refutes an atheism which posits itself as scientific. The book is not a vindication of religion or of theology, per se, but rather a rejection of what Robinson calls the “parascientific” nature of writings which seek to deny much of human experience. It is [...]
“The Time Traveler’s Wife” is one of the most interesting, powerful books I’ve read in a long time. Audrey Niffenegger did a beautiful job taking some of the most complex ideas – time travel, marriage, love, children, friends, literary and artistic allusions, religion, death, drugs, childhood, growing, loss, and what it means to be human [...]
Slaughter House Five deserves its reputation of being a piece of great American literature.The book follows a young man, Billy Pilgrim through his life.Billy believes aliens, tralfamadorians to be exact, have abducted him.We assume that it’s through these aliens that he learns to time travel, a skill he frequently uses.In the book Pilgrim bounces around [...]
Novik succeeds admirably in creating a novel which follows on neatly where ‘Temeraire’ (US title ‘His Majesty’s Dragon’) left off – and yet which could be read very satisfyingly as a stand-alone by anyone who had not read the previous tale. I was very impressed by the elegance and clarity with which she provided the [...]