Review
Umberto Eco, famous for his medieval mystery The Name of the Rose and slightly less well known for occult classic Foucault’s Pendulum, managed to sneak in a different, remarkable book on my shelves. The Island of the Day Before is Eco’s thorough exploration of an age of exploration and of the baroque. He navigates among [...]
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The Walker of Worlds blog has a review of one of my favorite series, Queen & Country. Check out Stephen Aryan’s review of Queen & Country: Definitive Edition Volume 2. I’m not surprised Stephen liked it! Queen & Country is amazing.
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The Imperfectionists: A Novel by Tom Rachman hits a place dear to me – newspapers. I spent my college years learning to be a newspaper man in one of the best damn college newspapers in the country, The Daily Iowan. But, like the paper and staffers in Tom Rachman’s novel, my journalism career was doomed [...]
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In the fourth installment of his A Song of Ice and Fire series, George R. R. Martin veers from his juggernaut of a fantastic story, slowing down to pick up the pieces left over from A Storm of Swords. Here, with only a select cast of his trademark and ever-expanding (and sometimes murderously contracting) pageant [...]
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Full disclosure: I’ve met Matt Forbeck a few times. I can’t say I know him well, but what I do know is he’s an extraordinarily nice guy. Angry Robot Books just recently released Amortals by Matt Forbeck in the U.S. It’s been making rounds in the UK on reviews, and is currently gathering up good [...]
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Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey is a fantastical twist on the kinds of books my father loves, those hardboiled detective fiction paperbacks set in L.A. amid murdered starlets, corrupt rich moguls and whiskey soaked sleuthing. Here, Kadrey’s twist is a celestial playground where diabolists and federal saints carry on a secret war, while meddling magicians [...]
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Every few years, fantasy fiction seems to rally ‘round the standard of a handful of books touted as the savior of the era, books of such fabulous craft and wonder that they represent new shifts in the art. I’ve eyed The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss precisely because I have observed that furor [...]
I just spent a couple days on the road on business – a jaunt to Manhattan. While the trip delayed some development here on the new blog, I did manage to finally finish up my print copy of The Pale Horseman, by Bernard Cornwell. It’s the second in Cornwell’s Saxon series. I read the first, [...]
Midnight’s Children is a rich and fascinating book. Rushdie channels dreamy visions of Kashmir and Mumbai, but his real masterpiece is the cast of characters — mostly the narrator’s family. In a variety of magical realist encounters, Rushdie manages not to let that fantasy unravel the dysfunctional, tragic and sometimes touching human dramas surrounding his [...]
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I discovered Arturo Pérez-Reverte earlier this year with his endearing Spanish adventure novel, Captain Alatriste. My discovery started a chain that ended most recently with The Club Dumas. I now gather that Pérez-Reverte is a wildly successful author in Spain and elsewhere, and more recently finding success in the U.S. Of course, American editions are [...]
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