Category Archives: Book Reviews

Boneshaker

Posted on December 28, 2009 by Marion

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. John Milton, Paradise Lost Boneshaker Cherie Priest SciFi Essential Book, Tor, 2009 Briar Wilkes Blue is a woman of secrets, the widow of one notorious man and the daughter of another. … Continue reading →

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The Books We Got for Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2009 by Marion

Christmas day dawned clear, blue and cold. Over coffee, orange juice and fresh cinnamon rolls, melted butter seeping into the pastry cracks, the day seemed much better than yesterday. I’m in a much better mood. I said I had hoped … Continue reading →

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Stalking the Interstice

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Marion

The City and the City China Mieville Ballentine Books, 2009 Tyador Borlu is a police inspector in Beszel, an Eastern European city-nation. Borlu is good at his job and two things that make him good at it are a dogged … Continue reading →

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A Sad Tale’s Best for Winter

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Marion

An Antic Disposition Alan Gordon St Martin’s Minotaur, 2004 In Denmark, long ago, a king was murdered by his ambitous brother. The murderer married his brother’s widow and raised the dead king’s son as his own. The king’s son was … Continue reading →

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Books for Cheap: After Dark

Posted on October 7, 2009 by Marion

After Dark Haruki Murakami Translated to English by Jay Rubin Alfred Knopf, 2004 Sunday after the farmers market I walked past Copperfield’s, the new bookstore, not the used. They had a sales rack outside, fifty percent off the lowest marked … Continue reading →

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All Tied Up, No Place to Go

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Marion

Hanged Man David Skibbins Thomas Dunn Books, 2009 Hanged Man is the fourth book in David Skibbins’s Tarot Card mystery series. His lead character, Warren Ritter, is a former 60s radical who changed his name and went underground after an … Continue reading →

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Magazines

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Marion

When I was younger I never read magazines. The Sig-O and I invested in US News and World Report for one year. Maybe I read it twice (and it’s a weekly). Now that I’m older, and either a) busier; or … Continue reading →

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Talent Runs in the Family

Posted on September 3, 2009 by Marion

Brian Fies is the author of the acclaimed graphic novel Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow, and the Eisner-award winning Mom’s Cancer. This week his daughter, Laura Fies, gave me an autographed copy of her first prize-winning manga, “Talbot.” … Continue reading →

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Grave Matters

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Marion

If you like mysteries, here is a website for you: www.gravematters.com. I found out about them when I ordered a book from them, via abebooks.They e-mailed me the next day to tell me my book was in the mail. Then … Continue reading →

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Infinite Jesters

Posted on July 19, 2009 by Marion

Lark’s Lament Alan Gordon 2008, St Martin’s/Minotaur Lark’s Lament is the 7th or 8th book in Gordon’s Fool’s Guild series. These historical novels, set in the late 12th and early 13th centuries, follow the professional jesters Theo and Claudia on … Continue reading →

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