Sarah
It was lovely to revisit Holmes and find that I enjoy these just as much as I did when I was a kid. Great fun and good narrator.
I really like these. They're about small events and small people (no empires here) but they have a lot of depth.
I really liked this. It was a neat way to look at different types of rocks and I'll be looking at old buildings in a different way now (not that I'll be able to identify anything but it will be fun to pretend that I can).
I want 3.5 stars for this. Good enough that I'll probably get the next one but not so good that it would get to stay on my bookshelf if it were the dead tree version.
This is like the Nora Robert's of UF and I mean that as a compliment. I went and bought book 2 as soon as I finished this one.
I love cop/government agency fighting the supernatural, so this seemed really promising. Nope. This was such a train wreck. I just kept going because it was so unbelievable (decent writing but unappealing 1D characters, sloppy world building) but I reached my limit with “mercury tipped enema”.
This would be a great SyFy channel movie. If you want a thriller along those lines, give this a read and don't be put off by the irrelevant and shitty cover.
This is an absolute little gem if you're interested in astronomy/NASA/relativity etc. Very very neat.
This was hilarious! What a pleasure to read Jim Hines going MST3000 on his first novel. The snark is awesome and I actually think that folks who want to write would benefit from Jim's examples of bad writing.
I wanted to like this as I've always been fascinated by the Pony Express. Most of it was quite good but I'm shocked to realize that it was published in 2003. It's fairly racist in places (for example referring to Native Americans as savages). It also glorifies the taking of land for the civilized peoples (i.e. white settlers). Disappointing. Look elsewhere for your history.
Updated: I've just realized this was written by a historian who died in 1930, so unfortunately his language and attitude are par for the course for his time. It's still irritating.
I like this series. Nice chunks (since it's based on newspaper columns), gentle humor, and great science.
Fascinating and absolutely terrifying. I cannot believe we made it through the Cold War without at least one city being bombed.
Solid space opera. I'm definitely invested enough in the very kick ass heroine to keep reading the series.
This series and the Five Hundred Kingdom series are among my total comfort reading series. Easy, fun and although not her best work, quite enjoyable.
Are you a child/teenager of the 80s? Were you a geek of any description? If so, this book is a must read. I recommend going with the audio version for the fabulous narration by the rocking Wil Wheaton.
This was really interesting intellectually but didn't grab me emotionally the way some of his other books (like “Kraken”) did. This is another one where the audio version is worth considering because spoken language is key to the story.