I purchased this novel for my wife’s birthday, back in 2003 or 2004, when Niffenegger’s debut first appeared to general acclaim. With the film adaptation arriving later this summer, I decided to read it.1
Category Archives: Books
2009 Hugo Nominees: Short Stories
We’ve reviewed all of the Hugo-nominated novels and many of the dramatic works. I may get to novellas and novelettes in the near future. Meanwhile, I encourage you to read and discuss the short fiction, available online.
This seems to be Hugo’s Year of the Monkey.
Book Review: Little Brother
In the wake of a near-future terrorist attack, some teens run afoul of the Department of Homeland Security—and become American revolutionaries in the process. Cory Doctorow’s novel, one of three YA books nominated for best novel at this year’s Hugo Awards, also serves as a primer of sorts.
Novel Review: Saturn’s Children
Today is the two hundredth anniversary of the final extinction of my One True Love, as close as I can date it.
In Charlie Stross’s space opera, nominated for a 2009 Hugo, the future brings wild adventures, interplanetary espionage, intelligent spaceships, and floating cities. Earth has established colonies throughout the solar system, and its inhabitants are now reaching for the stars.
Pity no human beings have survived to see it.
Book Review – The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
The anime series of the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya has become perhaps one of the more popular anime series to make the jump to the US, and one of the few anime series based off books to have the original source of the series get translated into English. I have already seen the series (and a review is forthcoming, once I finish with Patlabor), the question is, how does the book hold up?
Podiobook Review: Chasing the Bard
Many people feel William Shakespeare’s work is magical, but what if we take that one step further?
Novel Review: The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman has written another book for all ages. Despite its obvious antecedents, it ranks among his most creative and inventive works—and that is saying quite a lot.
Book Review: Zoë’s Tale
John Scalzi wanted to set aside the universe introduced in Old Man’s War for awhile, but readers tempted him back to write one more novel—a retelling of The Lost Colony from the perspective of a teenage girl. It’s sort of retro-Heinleinesque YA– and it’s up for a 2009 Hugo.
Podiobook Review: Billibub Baddings & the Case of the Singing Sword
Ever wonder what happens when you drop an medieval dwarf into Al Capone’s Chicago? Wonder no more.
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Book Review: Brisingr
Does the latest book in the Inheritance Cycle live up to its predecessors? And if it does, is that necessarily a good thing?