Of Two Minds

Despite a busy summer, I actually managed to get through a few books, thanks in large part to a quiet vacation with plenty of time for reading.
Realms: The First Year of Clarkesworld Magazine edited by Nick Mamatas and Sean Wallace [4/5]
An excellent mix of stories chosen from the first year of Clarkesworld Magazine, including [...]

It was another two months where I didn’t read very many things with covers.
Captain’s Fury by Jim Butcher [4/5]
This is the fourth installment in the Codex Alera series, and I thought it was another fine effort. Jim has a knack for keeping things moving, which helped to keep this sword-and-horses tale
down to a svelte [...]

Two already-published books this month, which is up from zero last month. Actually, with everything else that I was reading for work, it just took me quite a while to get through this one:
Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, edited by Ekaterina Sedia: I had an advance copy and have been “sneaking” a short [...]

Almost all of these books were read in March, as April found me mainly reading things that didn’t have covers.
Uglies by Scott Westerfield [4.5/5]
This was my first Scott Westerfield book, and I thought it definitely lived up to the hype. The writing was smooth, the characters engaging, and it never gave the sense of [...]

Nothing. Nada. Zilch.
That’s published already, that is.
Guess I just had too many clients with manuscripts due in April.
Check back next month to see if that status has changed….

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Uglies by Scott Westerfeld : Given the buzz for this series, I was worried it wouldn’t live up to all the praise. But I was wrong to be concerned in this case. This was a really intriguing book with a lot of compelling character detail and a way to look at societal perceptions from a [...]

Today is the release date for Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, edited by Ekaterina Sedia. I was lucky enough to get an advance copy a few weeks ago, and I’ve been enjoying it a lot.
Paper Cities is an eclectic collection of fantastic stories that are about, obviously enough, cities. While that [...]

Hopefully posting about books every couple of months will work out better than the once a year method.
Heart of Stone (The Negotiator Trilogy, Book 1) by C.E. Murphy [3.5/5]
I liked a lot of things about this one, including the world-building and Catie’s prose. I wasn’t as fond of the occasional parts of the [...]

Revisiting Narnia: Fantasy, Myth and Religion in C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles edited by Shanna Caughey : I found this an uneven collection of essays. Some of them were extremely intelligent and argued well (regardless of whether I personally agreed with their premise). Others seemed almost superficial. Still, it was interesting to see the various opinions. [...]

Since I haven’t posted about books since the second day of 2007 [yikes!], I thought it was probably worth posting something about the books I read last year. This list includes only the published stuff, and so to some extent it underrepresents the time I actually spent, and the order is roughly the order [...]