Every Inch a King is not Harry Turtledove’s weightiest work; but it’s entertaining. It’s only technically fantasy: basically, real life created a story so absurd that Turtledove had to add fantastic elements to it. Nobody would have believed that it happened, otherwise.
There’s a lesson, there.
And so, adieu to Binscombe Tales – The Complete Series.
Continue reading Book of the Week: Every Inch A King.
Somebody suggested these to me? I think? It’s been a long week. Anyway: Binscombe Tales – The Complete Series has been rather good, so far. It’s a collection of short stories, which is nice, considering that I’ve had to read in bursts lately. Which is, honestly, my own darn fault.
And so adieu to The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 2: Squirrel You Know It’s True. Already looking forward to Volume 3…
Picking The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 2: Squirrel You Know It’s True was kind of inevitable. …’Cat Thor.’ That and the Frank Miller reference was where I lost it.
I REGRET NOTHING
Continue reading Book of the Week: …The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 2.
It’s like a mental block. So let me outsource this: what should we all be reading? Feel free to sing out on this one.
A Field Guide to Awkward Silences was written by Washington Post writer Alexandra Petri: I got it for my wife as a present. My wife read it, and then promptly told me that I should read it, too. I’m about a third of the way through – Fallout Flu – but it’s pretty freaking hysterical so far. Not my usual style at all, but still worth a look. Continue reading Book of the Week: “A Field Guide to Awkward Silences.”
John Maddox Roberts’ King of the Wood
And so, adieu to Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen (Vorkosigan Saga).
Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen is the latest Cordelia/Miles Vorkosigan novel from Lois McMaster Bujold (link goes to Baen Ebooks).
Continue reading Book of the Week: “Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen.”
Truthfully, Heavy Lifting: Grow Up, Get a Job, Raise a Family, and Other Manly Advice (by Jim Geraghty and Cam Edwards) is also an In The Mail book, seeing as I got it this afternoon, but I cracked the book open at random and found it a good read, so it’s probably safe to sign off on this one. I’ll probably end up interviewing Jim about the book, at some point in the near future. So keep watching the skies…
And so, adieu to 1635: A Parcel of Rogues (The Ring of Fire)
1635: A Parcel of Rogues is the latest in Eric Flint’s Ring of Fire alternate history / time travel series, and I’ll be honest: this one is about me. This is gonna be the literary equivalent of comfort food. Not yet released, but you can get the Advance Reader Copy here. I plan to, as soon as I figure out the exact details.
And so, adieu to The Art of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. Continue reading Book of the Week: “1635: A Parcel of Rogues.”
I got turned onto Ben Aaronovitch’s London occult fantasy police novel Midnight Riot (for some reason, the book’s title got changed from Rivers of London for the American version) by Kate Ashwin* of Widdershins, which is by the way an excellent webcomic that you should read if you’re into 19th Century urban fantasy written by somebody who doesn’t hate the 19th Century. …But I digress; I’m about a quarter through the book so far, and I put it down to write this because if I don’t break off now I’ll just read the whole thing in one shot and I still have things that I have to do today. So, yes, it qualifies for Book of the Week. The real trouble will be in pacing myself, I think.
And so, adieu to Anno Dracula. I incline to London-based fantasy sometimes, no? Continue reading Book of the Week: Midnight Riot / Rivers of London.
