After the Golden Age by Carrie Vaughn I found this book charming, with engaging characters, a nice mystery, and plenty of action. The main character is Celia West, the daughter of wealthy socialites who happen to also be superheroes. I’d say the bulk of the conflict in the novel involves Celia struggling to get out …
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Feb 22
Book Review: Asleep
Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto A friend handed me this, not telling me what to expect, and it turned out to be a very literary novel. It’s not really a novel, per se., but three long short stories or short novellas all on the theme of sleeping. The first short story is about a woman worried …
Jan 24
Book Review: Pale Demon
Pale Demon by Kim Harrison I’ve been reading the Rachel Morgan series since the third book came out, following each new volume, and often buying them in hardcover, which I don’t do for just any series. Even after my other two favorite urban fantasy series’ authors started phoning it in, Harrison’s Hollows series keeps going …
Dec 01
Book Review: The Wild Boys
The Wild Boys, by Travis Heerman I read an ARC (Advanced Reader’s Copy) of this book, and had no backflap, so I wasn’t sure what kind of story I was getting into. It starts out with Mia, a high school girl in Omaha. She has trouble fitting in because for one, she’s new and two, …
Nov 15
Book Review: The Power of Habit
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg I’ve read so many of these pop-science kind of books that they all start to run together after a while, but this one seems superior to many. As its title suggests, it’s about the power of habit. It …