Mar 25, 20172 min read
Book Review: The Revenant, by Michael Punke
Michael Punke’s The Revenant is brutal, gripping, and perhaps too historically accurate for its own good. The story starts with a...
Mar 14, 20172 min read
Book Review: Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon
Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon, is (far) more than just A Connecticut Yankee in King Author’s Court plus Scots and sex. But there’s some...
Feb 19, 20172 min read
Book Review: Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life is more an example of good writing than a manual for how to produce it....
Jan 16, 20172 min read
Book Review: Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman
In Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere, Richard Mayhew is yanked out of his ordinary London existence when he finds a girl bleeding in the streets....
Dec 30, 20162 min read
Book Review: The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
On the surface, Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose looks like Sherlock Holmes in a 14th-century Italian abbey. There’s a murder mystery;...
Dec 4, 20162 min read
Book Review: And I Darken, by Kiersten White
And I Darken is the perfect title for Kiersten White’s novel about Vlad the Impaler’s origins. The plot (eventually) focuses on...
Nov 18, 20163 min read
Book Review: 1493, by Charles Mann
“Columbus’s voyage did not mark the discovery of a new world, but its creation.” So claims Charles Mann in his impressive 1493:...
Nov 6, 20162 min read
Book Review: Wizard and Glass, by Stephen King
Wizard and Glass, the fourth installment in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, might have the strangest structure of any novel I’ve read....
Oct 31, 20161 min read
Book Review: Ghost Talkers, by Mary Robinette Kowal
All too often, soldiers make the ultimate sacrifice. But what if death didn’t relieve them of their duties? What if the fallen still had...
Oct 17, 20162 min read
Book Review: Save the Cat, by Blake Snyder
It’s tempting to say the best thing about Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat! is the title. (And the cover—don’t let go, kitty! HOLD ON!) But...
