[F]or the last two weeks, I’ve been in withdrawals because the wonderful “Great Stephen King Reread” that Grady Hendrix is doing over at Tor.com was on vacation. But it was back yesterday, covering Stephen King’s first collection of novellas, Different Seasons. And it was as good as ever. I love this series. Hendrix writes in detail…
[W]hile I was away on vacation, the following book arrived in the mail. It is Farseed by Pamela Sargent, the second book in the “Seed” trilogy. It comes out in February by TOR books.
[M]y, oh, my, I have a ton of reading to do! I am probably half a year behind in science magazines. Several months behind in my science fiction magazine reading. I have two-and-a-half books to read for my next book review column at InterGalactic Medicine Show. And to top it all off, I am feeling the…
[W]hen I was a school-aged kid, I had to write book reports. I can’t remember how far back my book report-writing went and, alas, I don’t remember the first book for which I had to write a book report. It seems to me, however, that the book report had one primary value and one secondary…
[T]wo of my friends have their first novels coming out tomorrow. I thought I’d share them here for folks who may be interested. Neither is science fiction. One is a horror novel and the other is a mystery. Take a look and if one (or both) turn out to be your thing, go check them…
[L]ocus is running a poll for the best novels and short fiction of the 20th and 21st centuries. The poll closes tomorrow. This morning, I finally got around to making my picks. Polls like this are highly subjective. My picks represent my personal tastes, of course, what novels and stories turned me on the most…
[T]onight I finished the most remarkable chapter I’ve encountered thus far in my rereading of The Lord of the Rings: “The Council of Elrond.” I have absolutely no memory of this the first time around, and everything I thought I knew about it going into it was from the movie, The Fellowship of the Ring. I’ve said…
[E]arlier this month, I began my reread of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. It has been going slower than I hoped, for two reasons. First my time to read has been limited. Second, I have been reading slowly and carefully, since it has been close to 30 years since I last read the…
[A]ll of my magazine subscriptions are in digital format. Several of them (New Scientist, Rolling Stone, Esquire) I read via the Zinio App. Many others (most of my science fiction magazines, for instance) I read via the Kindle App. And several I read as PDF files (Writer’s Digest, Scientific American, and Locus). I noticed that there is a trend…
[I] discovered this book via brainpickings and it has rapidly moved to the top of my List of Things I Must Have: Check out brainpickings’ more extensive post to see some of the interior work. I love projects like this.
[I] have been pretty bad about my updates listing the books I’m sent for review, so instead of trying to do a monthly post, I’m just going to post them as I get them. That being the case, here is what I received on Friday: River Road by Suzanne Johnson (TOR)
[I] don’t know when I first read Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. I think it was after I read The Hobbit. But when did I read The Hobbit? All I can say is I was much, much younger. It was before I moved to California, which means it was sometime before 6th grade. Assuming 5th grade as the…