Book Review: ‘Prince of Thorns’ by Mark Lawrence
Grit and Determination Mark Lawrence’s The Prince of Thorns, the first installment in The Broken Empire trilogy, took several false starts before I got through it. The first chapter was gritty, and…
Book Review: ‘Reaper Man’ by Terry Pratchett
Light and Ready to Go A light read is good for the soul from time to time. My brain gets overworked, and can get caught up in this or that,…
Book Review: ‘Oathbringer’ by Brandon Sanderson
Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson was a behemoth. My edition was an eye-watering 1,400-page sweltering hunk of 1s and 0s (it was an epub version, that is to say). After finishing…
Book Review: ‘Paprika’ by Yasutaka Tsutsui
A Few Signs of Age In some ways, Yasutaka Tsutsui’s surreal Paprika is fresh and outstanding (though written two and a half decades ago), but in other ways, it does…
Book Review: ‘Inherent Vice’ by Thomas Pynchon
Better Luck This Time: My first encounter with Thomas Pynchon did not end so well. It was with a copy of the chunk, intimidating Against the Day. I quit before…