Monthly Reading: October 2008
October 31, 2008 at 9:07 am | In Monthly Reading, Reviews | 2 CommentsTags: Allegory, Books about books, Classic, Environmentalism, George Orwell, Marisha Pessl, Science fiction, Ursula K Le Guin
Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin — environmental science fiction
Animal Farm by George Orwell — classic allegory
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl — fiction about books
My rating scale:
- 1 star: Abandoned before finishing. Don’t waste your time.
- 2 stars: Poor. Avoid with extreme prejudice.
- 3 stars: Average. Read it, have a good time and move on. Or not.
- 4 stars: Great. Push it on your friends and family.
- 5 stars: Excellent. Keep it, treasure it, reread it.
Disclaimer: My ratings are very personal and may have little to do with the book’s artistic or commercial merit, or its place in the literary canon. Rather, the rating reflects how the story, characters and writing spoke to me and augmented my understanding of the world.
Other reviews of favorite books from around the blogosphere:
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Book Lady’s Blog)
- Bird by Bird (Sophisticated Dorkiness)
- Clay’s Ark and Icehenge (From a Sci-Fi Standpoint)
- The Haunting of Hill House (Things Mean a Lot)
- Fragile Things (You Can Never Have Too Many Books)
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Monthly Reading: September 2008
October 1, 2008 at 8:48 am | In Monthly Reading, Reviews | 2 CommentsTags: Books about books, Brain-computer interfacing, Contemporary fiction, Dystopia, Food fiction, George Saunders, Joe Haldeman, John Colapinto, Judith R Hendricks, Military, Science fiction
Civilwarland in Bad Decline by George Saunders – dystopian contemporary fiction
Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman — military science fiction, brain-computer interfacing
About the Author by John Colapinto — books about books
Bread Alone by Judith R. Hendricks — food fiction
My rating scale:
- 1 star: Abandoned before finishing. Don’t waste your time.
- 2 stars: Poor. Avoid with extreme prejudice.
- 3 stars: Average. Read it, have a good time and move on. Or not.
- 4 stars: Great. Push it on your friends and family.
- 5 stars: Excellent. Keep it, treasure it, reread it.
Disclaimer: My ratings are very personal and may have little to do with the book’s artistic or commercial merit, or its place in the literary canon. Rather, the rating reflects how the story, characters and writing spoke to me and augmented my understanding of the world.
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Monthly Reading: April 2008
May 1, 2008 at 11:23 am | In Monthly Reading, Reviews | Leave a CommentTags: Books about books, Contemporary fiction, Historical fiction, Margaret Atwood, Nick Hornby, Nonfiction, Stephen Baxter, Vernor Vinge, Vivian E Glyck
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood — historical fiction, books within books
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby — contemporary fiction
The Tao of Poop: Keeping Your Sanity (and Your Soul) While Raising a Baby by Vivian E. Glyck — nonfiction
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge — abandoned
The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter — abandoned
My rating scale:
- 1 star: Abandoned before finishing. Don’t waste your time.
- 2 stars: Poor. Avoid with extreme prejudice.
- 3 stars: Average. Read it, have a good time and move on. Or not.
- 4 stars: Great. Push it on your friends and family.
- 5 stars: Excellent. Keep it, treasure it, reread it.
Disclaimer: My ratings are very personal and may have little to do with the book’s artistic or commercial merit, or its place in the literary canon. Rather, the rating reflects how the story, characters and writing spoke to me and augmented my understanding of the world.
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Monthly Reading: January 2008
February 1, 2008 at 12:51 pm | In Monthly Reading, Reviews | Leave a CommentTags: Austin Grossman, Books about books, David Brin, Denis Johnson, Dystopia, Gregory Benford, Jane Smiley, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lois Lowry, Mars, Science fiction, Soft science fiction, Superhero
Click the titles for my review or notes.
13 Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley — book about books
Heart of the Comet by David Brin and Gregory Benford — science fiction
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson — Mars science fiction
Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman — superhero science fiction
The Giver by Lois Lowry — dystopian soft science fiction
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson — abandoned
My rating scale:
- 1 star: Abandoned before finishing. Don’t waste your time.
- 2 stars: Poor. Avoid with extreme prejudice.
- 3 stars: Average. Read it, have a good time and move on. Or not.
- 4 stars: Great. Push it on your friends and family.
- 5 stars: Excellent. Keep it, treasure it, reread it.
Disclaimer: My ratings are very personal and may have little to do with the book’s artistic or commercial merit, or its place in the literary canon. Rather, the rating reflects how the story, characters and writing spoke to me and augmented my understanding of the world.
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