Book Club: The Kaiju Preservation Society is the most fun thing I have read in a long time. It is literally joy, in the form of a book. John Scalzi himself writes a little letter to the readers at the end, and he refers to it as the book equivalent of a pop song. That…
Category: Book Club
Book Club: Dune – Messiah by Frank Herbert
I enjoyed Dune. The first one was excellent. It was a little long in places but overall it was cohesive and enjoyable. It put forward interesting ideas and was a verbose but carefully told story. While not totally to my tastes I basked in it’s verbosity and left thinking it was a master piece; though…
Book Club: Dune by Frank Herbert
As much as this is out of character for me I am going to try and keep this brief. The reason is that there is no way anyone hasn’t heard of this book and most people who give a shit will have already read it, or bounced on it already. I tried to read Dune…
Book Club: Just one damned Thing After by Jodi Taylor Another.
This is my current adventure into a category I call “Its trash I read to relax”. It has replaced the unfortunate Emerillia series for me. I was first attracted to this title because I once saw it on sale on Kindle for about 1p or something crazy. I remember picking it up and thinking “I’ll…
My favorite writers.
I was thinking about writers the other day. There are a lot of books I really enjoy but there are not that many writers who I really enjoy consistently. For instance, I love the book ‘Neuromancer’ but don’t consider William Gibson to be one of my favourite writers. He is an interesting person for sure but is…
Book Club: The Iliad by Homer.
I don’t have the classical education required to actually write a review of the Iliad. I’ll be honest, while I enjoyed it a great deal I’m pretty sure that I missed a lot of smart culturally loaded stuff that would have made it way better. I don’t have very much in the way of interest…
Book Club: Komi Can’t communicate (Manga series)
I have recently been reading thought the delightful “Komi Can’t Communicate” a 13 volume manga about a young woman in school who had a serious communication disorder. She is quite literally unable to form sentences around people outside of her family, and even around them its usually a couple of words. Upon starting a new…
Science Fiction and Over tailored characters. A pointless musing.
I read a lot, not as much as some people but a book-a-week when I’m in a reading mood. I read a lot of classic (old) science fiction. I also read more comics than an adult probably should. I have also written a long form work of fiction that’s currently being edited by a friend….
Book Club: Fangs by Sarah Andersen.
I think this maybe the first “comic” book that I have written about in the book-club section of the website. Fangs started life as a web-comic on a website that everyone except me has heard of called Tapas.io. Fangs is about a vampire and a werewolf who date. It’s light hearted and far deeper than…
Book Club: After Emerilia.
It was 13:00 on the 1st of June (today a time of writing) that I finally finished reading the Emerilia series. It was 11 books and I was a hair away from not only stopping reading it but putting the whole series in the bin. This is a LitRPG series. LitRPG’s are the best kind…