It's A Binary World 2.0

The Cage of Zeus by Sayuri Ueda My rating: 3 of 5 stars This book is 1 of 2 books I was reading at the same time heavily using Science Fiction as a metaphor for modern issues. (The other is The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer) The Cage of Zeus is written […]

Trafalgar and Boone in the Drowned Necropolis by Geonn Cannon My rating: 3 of 5 stars This book continues on from the last one, but the author does a good job of catching readers up. If you like a Victorian era archaeological adventure story, you can do much worse than this. It works well and […]

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir My rating: 4 of 5 stars Well, that was certainly something. Tamsyn Muir seems to have created, with this series, a true experiment in making a genre book more about the journey than the destination. This is the second book in which almost nothing happens for most of the […]

Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley My rating: 4 of 5 stars My utter enjoyment of this book is inexplicable to me. The subtitle says that it’s a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, but McKinley doesn’t change too much from the original tale. Mostly she makes […]

Calamity by Brandon Sanderson My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is a perfect conclusion to the trilogy. Sanderson does a good job extending out everyone’s character growth and the natural progression of the story. I don’t remember if, while reading the earlier books in the trilogy, I made the leap of Calamity as a […]

Nightmare Magazine, issue 120 by John Joseph Adams My rating: 4 of 5 stars Once again I bought an issue of Nightmare Magazine to share the stories with my wife. The descriptions on the site seemed interesting and, indeed, they were. The description that got me to buy it was for the short story Concerning […]

Let’s Talk About Hard Things by Anna Sale My rating: 4 of 5 stars A well-written and well-narrated book that’s just on this side of a self-help book. There is some advice, but it’s really mostly a series of vignettes that illustrate some points the author wants to make as well as showing that there […]

Nightmare Magazine 49: October 2016. People of Colo(u)r Destroy Horror! Special Issue by Silvia Moreno-Garcia My rating: 4 of 5 stars I got this to read together with my wife who lives horror I ended up really enjoying most of the stories. Wish you were here – the history of a revolution and civil war […]

The Man Who Could Be King: A Novel by John Ripin Miller My rating: 4 of 5 stars I got this book for free as part of the Kindle First Reads program I like to geek out on many things and one of those is history. Thanks to books like 1776 I already knew that […]

Hogfather by Terry Pratchett My rating: 1 of 5 stars This is my second time reading this book. Rating went from 2 stars to 1 star. I didn’t like this book all that much when I first read it and I liked it even less this time around. I don’t like The Auditors as Death’s […]