Book Review: The Golden Scales, Parker Bilal Mystery: The Golden Scales, Parker Bilal Seventeen years earlier, a young British mother visited Cairo in search of the father of her toddler daughter. Failing to find him, she returns to her hotel room. A delivery arrives for her: an envelope full of cash…and heroin. The woman […]
Month: July 2019
Quote: George R. R. Martin on Books & Swords
Book Review: The Night Tiger, Yangsze Choo
Book Review: The Night Tiger, Yangsze Choo Fiction: The Night Tiger, Yangsze Choo Defying categorization, The Night Tiger falls somewhere in between mystery and fantasy and historical romance. Yangsze Choo’s second novel is beautiful, with memorable characters and a compelling plot full of twists. Ren is a very young houseboy. He claims to be […]
Book Review: The Tropic of Serpents, Marie Brennan
Book Review: The Tropic of Serpents, Book 2 of the Memoirs of Lady Trent, Marie Brennan Fantasy: The Tropic of Serpents, Marie Brennan Isabella Camherst can face dragons. She has met with heads of state, with scientists from around the world. She survived the cold steppes and the machinations of local warlords, and […]
Quote: Stephen King on Books
Quote: Books are a uniquely portable magic. Stephen King Quote: “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King For more on Stephen King, American author, see https://www.stephenking.com/ See our posts on: Booklist: 10 Books for a Reading Roadtrip Across America Book Review: European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman, Theodora Goss Book Review: A Natural History […]
Book Review: Voyage of the Basilisk, Marie Brennan
Book Review: Voyage of the Basilisk, The Lady Trent Memoirs Book 3, Marie Brennan Fantasy: Voyage of the Basilisk, Marie Brennan The Memoirs of Lady Trent is a fantasy series that grows more delightful the further you get into it. In Voyage of the Basilisk, the third of the series, Isabella Camherst sets sail […]
Quote: Emily Dickinson “no frigate like a book”
Quote: There is no frigate like a book, to take us lands away – Emily Dickinson “There is no frigate like a book, to take us lands away” — Emily Dickinson, American Poet For more on Emily Dickinson, American Poet: https://poets.org/poet/emily-dickinson https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/emily-dickinson See our posts on: Booklist: 10 Books for a Reading Roadtrip […]
Book Review: The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books, Edward Wilson-Lee
Book Review: The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books, Edward Wilson-Lee Biography: The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books, Edward Wilson-Lee In 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain to find western route to China and the Indies. As everyone knows, what he found instead was what became known as the “New World,” lands full of new people, […]
Book Review: Foundryside, Robert Jackson Bennett
Book Review: Foundryside, Robert Jackson Bennett Fantasy: Foundryside, Robert Jackson Bennett Foundryside is an epic fantasy set in a new world where technology operates magically through the use of written commands that change the way reality works for an object. Certain rules seem to control how this works: the commands must be written correctly […]