Horizon by Lois McMaster Bujold This is the fourth book of the series, and the conclusion. Really for truly the conclusion, which gets it big points in my ledger. As a whole I think this series is well worth reading. While the worldbuilding wasn’t vastly creative, it was different enough that it didn’t bore me. …
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Sep 11
Book Review: The Sharing Knife, Passage (3)
Passage by Lois McMaster Bujold So far I think this is the least solid novel in this series. While Bujold does a great job of integrating back story and world-building into the story, this is a bad novel to start with in the series because if you haven’t become invested in the characters by following …
Sep 07
Book Review: The Sharing Knife, Legacy (2)
Legacy by Lois McMaster Bujold This is a second in a series, but it differs greatly from the first novel in its setting. The first novel dealt with Dag and Fawn in farmer territory, trying to make peace with her family and reconcile them to their relationship. This novel deals with his family, and his …
Aug 30
Book Review: Columbine
Columbine by Dave Cullen I got this as an audiobook, and had to ask myself “what is a person who hates serial killers doing reading a book about a famous massacre?” But this is much more than just a gruesome true-crime story. It has so many different angles to it that there’s something for…well, maybe …
Aug 10
Book Review: Power, Why Some People Have it and Others Don’t.
Power: Why Some People Have it and Others Don’t by Jeffrey Pfeffer I had hopes that this book would be more about socioeconomic and political struggles from an anthropological bent, but instead, it could be titled “how to get ahead in the workplace”. He touches briefly on governmental-type politics, but for the most part, this …