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Sunday Status Update: August 6, 2023Marion : I finished Garth Nix’s latest, T he Sinister Booksellers of Bath ; it was fun spending time with the characters we met in...
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The Promise of Air: "Hey, Joe…”The Promise of Air by Algernon Blackwood Algernon Blackwood ’s novels The Human Chord (1910) and The Centaur (1911)...
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WWWednesday: August 2, 2023Display of banned books or censored books at Books Inc independent bookstore in Alameda, California, October 16, 2021. (Photo by Smith...
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Medusa’s Sisters: A bitingly insightful feminist viewpointMedusa’s Sisters by Lauren J.A. Bear Every now and then my reads fall into a pattern, the most recent being a trio of reimaginings of...
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The Falls: A DIVING police proceduralThe Falls by Kristine Kathryn Rusch science fiction book reviews The Falls (2016) is the eighth novel in Kristine Kathryn...
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Bridge: The multiverse but with parasites and serial killersBridge by Lauren Beukes A quick glance at the jacket copy of Lauren Beukes ’s 2023 weird thriller Bridge might make the reader...
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The Children of Jocasta: Solid but somewhat disappointingThe Children of Jocasta by Natalie Haynes The Children of Jocasta (2018), by Natalie Haynes , does a nice job of shifting our...
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The Runabout: Exploring the BoneyardThe Runabout by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Finally we get to explore more of the Boneyard in The Runabout (2017), the fifth...
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WWWednesday: July 26, 2023Monday, July 24, Elon Musk officially changed Twitter’s blue bird logo to a capital X. (Remember, he changed the logo to a cryptocurrency dog...
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Light Bringer: A mostly excellent seriesLight Bringer by Pierce Brown In my review of the fifth RED RISING book, The Dark Ages , I said that Pierce Brown ’s series...
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The Whistling Ancestors: Caspar, the unfriendly hostThe Whistling Ancestors by Richard E. Goddard And so, I have just come to the end of another lot of books from the remarkable...
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Night Fever: We are our own worst enemiesNight Fever : We are our own worst enemies Brubaker and Phillips have done it again in their latest offering: They have given us...
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Beastly: The 40,000-Year Story of Animals and UsBeastly: The 40,000-Year Story of Animals and Us by Keggie Carew In Beastly: The 40,000-Year Story of Animals and Us, Keggie...
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Nightborn: I hope Friedman isn’t done revisiting this worldNightborn by C.S. Friedman It’s been nearly 30 years since C.S.Friedman concluded her COLDFIRE trilogy, one of my favorite fantasy...
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Skirmishes: Boss and Coop make a good teamSkirmishes by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Skirmishes (2013) is the fourth novel in Kristine Kathryn Rusch ’s DIVING universe. It...
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Mad-Doctor Merciful: A very impressive medical thriller/supernatural horror hybridMad-Doctor Merciful by Collin Brooks On three separate occasions over the past few months, I have been asked the question “Where do...
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The Deep Sky: A promising debutThe Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei Yume Kitasei’s debut novel, The Deep Sky , is half a sci-fi mystery aboard a troubled spaceship and...
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Boneyards: An essential DIVING storyBoneyards by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Boneyards (2012) is the third full-length novel in Kristine Kathryn Rusch ’s DIVING series....
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Beast Or Man? Jungle BoogieBeast Or Man? by Sean M’Guire A little while back, I shared some thoughts here on FanLit regarding American author David V. Reed ’s...
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Blade of Dream: Explores choices and consequencesBlade of Dream by Daniel Abraham Blade of Dream is Daniel Abraham ’s second book in his KITHAMAR trilogy, though to call it a...
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WWWednesday: July 5, 2023Housekeeping: Next week, July 12, 2023, there will be no column because I will be flying to Quincey, Massachusetts for ReaderCon. One...
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A House With Good Bones: Not the roses! Not the roses!A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher “There was a vulture on the mailbox of my grandmother’s house.” A couple of weeks ago...
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The Application of Hope: A helpful companionThe Application of Hope by Kristine Kathryn Rusch The Application of Hope (2014) is another novella set in Kristine Kathryn Rusch...
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WWWednesday: June 28, 2023The 2023 Locus Awards were announced on Sunday . Congratulations to John Scalzi for Best SF Novel ( The Kaiju Preservation Society ); R.F....
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The Devil of Pei-Ling: You can’t keep a good Satanist down!The Devil of Pei-Ling by Herbert Asbury In 2002, Martin Scorsese brought to the big screen his 18 th film as a director, Gangs of...
