Reviews, roundups and general commentary on what I’m currently reading … or watching.
I’ve been meaning to read this novel and didn’t get to it until just recently — and now I can see why it’s one of his most well-known works. (And why it’s a much-anticipated movie coming out later this year.) I’m not a big sci-fi fan — I’m more into swords and castles than ray … Read more
Every now and then — and nowadays too rarely for my liking — I come across a book that sucks me in from the moment I pick it up in the bookstore. As soon as I buy it, I can’t wait to read it; and as soon as I start reading it, I can’t put … Read more
This weekend I FINALLY finished reading Heretics by G. K. Chesterton — and I say FINALLY not at all because it was some long book that was a drag to get through, but because it was actually a short book (133 pages) packed with gems. Although it was written over a century ago, it’s as relevant for us “postmoderns” as … Read more
This afternoon, more than two months after buying the thing, I FINALLY finished reading Epic: Legends of Fantasy, the epic fantasy anthology edited by John Joseph Adams. I’m sure I would have finished reading it earlier but for the great tsunami of grad school work that washed over my life this semester. Yet even with … Read more
I know I’ve been MIA lately, so here’s a quick check-in, featuring short reviews of — drumroll please — three German Krimis. I suppose that seems kind of random, but I’ve been reading a number of them lately, thanks to a class I’m taking. In this entry I’ll give a run-down of what I’ve read so … Read more