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2021 Recap; autumn reads
Röhner by Max Baitinger Baitinger’s Röhner is a very humorous read while also one of the most formally experimental and unique comics I...
Feb 18, 2022
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One Hundred Years of Solitude, a book unlike any I've read before.
One hundred years of solitude fascinating novel that narrates the misadventures of a family (the Buendías) and a town (Macondo) through...
Sep 13, 2021
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On a Sunbeam and This is how you lose the time war; two great sci-fi stories.
On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden. Set in a futuristic world where spaceships look like fish and buildings float away in space, On a Sunbeam...
Apr 26, 2021
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Jorge Luis Borges, Yosiharu Tsuge, Freddy Lombard, Soft City and other recent reads.
Jorge Luis Borges “The Aleph” is a short story (20-ish pages) by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. It’s the first thing I’ve read by...
Mar 17, 2021
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Vorkosigan Saga by McMaster Bujold; reviewing my first obsession of 2021.
After finishing Ethan of Athos yesterday, I have read all the Vorkosigan books stories (I think) and, as a lot of the books and series I...
Feb 6, 2021
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The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford, the best fantasy novel I read in 2020
The Dragon Waiting is a historical fantasy novel set in the late 15th century (early Renaissance) in an alternate universe in which the...
Jan 14, 2021
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Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami Review.
I decided to pick this book up after watching the YouTube video TEDed did on it (which was also why I read Fahrenheit 451 and Dune and...
Nov 30, 2020
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The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal Review
The Calculating Stars is an alternate history take on the space race, with the major world powers working in unison rather than against...
Oct 28, 2020
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The Book of Atrix Wolfe by Patricia A. McKillip Review
Patricia McKillip’s “The book of Atrix Wolfe” was recommended by the r/fantasy community on reddit as a great fae/soft magic read with...
Oct 5, 2020
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Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 may be my new all-time favorite.
The story is about Montag, a fireman in a world where books are prohibited and it is their job to burn books and the houses of their...
Jul 13, 2020
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Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter R&C
The Rage of Dragons is a military fantasy book (and the first in a four-book series) by newcomer author Evan Winter. It revolves around...
Jul 13, 2020
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Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey R&C
This Solar System based epic sci-fi follows two characters; a middle-age cop (Miller) and a spaceship captain (Holden) as the weak...
Jul 13, 2020
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Stormfront and Fool Moon (Dresden Files books 1,2) by Jim Butcher R&C
The first two entries of this huge series (to which two books will be added later this year) are murder-mysteries with fantastical...
Jul 13, 2020
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, a fantastic romance novel.
This was my first read of the romance classic and I have to say I really enjoyed it. It is undoubtedly one of the best romances I’ve ever...
Jul 13, 2020
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