Category Archives: Book Reviews

The Books We Got for Christmas

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Marion

On my way home I spent part of my Four-Eyed Frog gift card, and picked up a few more books.  At home, I found another package waiting.  Here are the Christmas additions:  The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet, by Arturo … Continue reading →

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The Daily Reader

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Marion

Terry Weyna played Santa early this year and gave me a copy of her husband’s new book, The Daily Reader, in November.  Fred White wrote a wonderful book for writers called The Daily Writer that I got for Christmas last … Continue reading →

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Maisie Dobbs; A Capsule Review

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Marion

Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear Birds of a Feather, Jacqueline Winspear Picador Press, 2004, 2005 Jacqueline Winspear writes a mystery series set in 1930s England.  Her detective is Maisie Dobbs, an independent woman who probably represents the beginning of England’s modern … Continue reading →

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Angelology

Posted on December 5, 2010 by Marion

Angelology, by Danielle Trussoni Viking, 2010 I read Angelology when I was sick with the second nasty cold of the season, with a cough that felt like someone was yanking my lungs out through my chest.  That may have colored … Continue reading →

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Sophomore Slump

Posted on November 8, 2010 by Marion

The Midnight Mayor; the Inauguration of Matthew Swift/Kate Griffin, 2010 Orbit Fantasy I loved Kate Griffin’s A Madness of Angels. I merely enjoyed the sequel, The Midnight Mayor.  I always surmise that part of the problem comes from the amount … Continue reading →

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Woken Furies; a Long Review

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Marion

Woken Furies, Richard Morgan Ballentine Del Ray, 2007 Takeshi Kovacs spends most of Woken Furies, the third book in the Kovacs series, in a bad mood.  When I’m in a bad mood, I’m more snappish and sarcastic than usual.  Kovacs … Continue reading →

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Zero History

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Marion

Zero History, William Gibson Putman, 2010 I’m a little disappointed in the plot of Zero History, but I’m not disappointed in the book. Gibson’s latest reunites us with Hollis Henry, former lead singer of the Curfew, currently unemployed.  Hollis had … Continue reading →

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Sandman Slim

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Marion

Sandman Slim; Richard Kadrey Eos, 2009 Would James Stark, the hero of Kadrey’s Sandman Slim, and Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden get along?  Here’s what I think.  They could drink together, but sooner or later they’d get into a fight and … Continue reading →

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The Souls of Cities

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Marion

A Madness of Angels, Kate Griffin/Orbit Fantasy, 2009 “Life is magic.”  “And the dragon of broken and disobeyed signs was, in the end, an urban creature, summoned out of the city itself; and the city’s dragon, the lord of the … Continue reading →

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Clockwork Angel

Posted on September 18, 2010 by Marion

“And then comes the final test, the infallible touchstone of the seventh-rate: Ichor. It oozes out of severed tentacles, it beslimes tessellated pavements, bespatters bejeweled courtiers, and bores the bejesus out of everybody.” Ursula K. Le Guin, “From Elfland to … Continue reading →

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