“Reading Lolita in Tehran” by Azar Nafisi
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books was not the kind of book that I thought it would be. I assumed that it would be the story of the…
Read more“Kick-Ass” by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.
Kick-Ass follows Dave Lizewski, an ordinary high-schooler and comic nerd that dreams of being a superhero, and then decides to actually become one. He discovers that it isn’t really easy…
Read more“Anathem” by Neal Stephenson
I’ve had several false starts with Anathem; I found the beginning pretty hard to get into. There is a lot of new terminology, and it seemed a bit dense. However,…
Read more“There is a Tide” and “Passenger to Frankfurt” by Agatha Christie
I read two Agatha Christie mysteries yesterday, and will review them both in this post. There is a Tide (also sold as Taken at the Flood) is a Hercule Poirot…
Read more“River of Gods” by Ian McDonald
I had been looking forward to reading River of Gods for a long time; science-fiction set in a future India is certainly a novelty, but it also got rave reviews.…
Read more“Yseult” by Ruth Nestvold
I won a PDF of Yseult: A Tale of Love in the Age of King Arthur in the LibraryThing member giveaway a couple of weeks ago. After finishing White Planet,…
Read more“White Planet” by Ash Silverlock
I received an e-book of Ash Silverlock’s self published novel, White Planet, to review last month. This is the first volume of The Ice World Chronicles, a fantasy set in…
Read more“Oryx and Crake” by Margaret Atwood
I’ve been working on Oryx and Crake for a while, but finally finished it on the plane back to the United States. I received this book for SantaThing, LibraryThing’s secret…
Read more“Ship Breaker” by Paolo Bacigalupi
Paolo Bacigalupi’s novel, The Windup Girl has been receiving a lot of press over the last couple of years, and I finally received it for my birthday this year. However,…
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