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February 2014

February 25, 2014

Review: The Rosie Project, by Graeme Simsion

Don Tillman, hero of Graeme Simsion's novel The Rosie Project, is a professor of genetics...

February 22, 2014

Review: On Food and Cooking, by Harold McGee

This was first posted in March of 2004. As I've hinted upon occasion, our favorite...

February 18, 2014

Review: The Nine Tailors, by Dorothy Sayers

The next of Dorothy Sayers' Peter Wimsey mysteries is The Nine Tailors, which I enjoyed...

February 17, 2014

Review: Two Serpents Rise, by Max Gladstone

Two Serpents Rise is the second book in Gladstone's "Craft Sequence", following upon Three Parts...

February 11, 2014

Review: The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman

I'm taking a brief break from the Peter Wimsey books to review Neil Gaiman's latest,...

February 10, 2014

A Song for Nagasaki, by Paul Glynn

I've a difficult relationship with the atomic bomb. I mean that sincerely. I have a...

February 04, 2014

Murder Must Advertise, by Dorothy Sayers

Unlike the last couple of Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey novels, about which I had mixed...

January 2014

January 28, 2014

Have His Carcase, by Dorothy Sayers

The next of Dorothy Sayers' Peter Wimsey mysteries is Have His Carcase; it is also...

January 21, 2014

The Five Red Herrings, by Dorothy Sayers

In Galloway, according to Dorothy Sayers, everyone either fishes or paints or both. This is...

January 14, 2014

Strong Poison, by Dorothy Sayers

Dorothy Sayers' Peter Wimsey series takes an abrupt left turn with the fifth book, Strong...

January 07, 2014

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, by Dorothy Sayers

Old General Fentiman has a ticktock life. Every morning he rises and goes to the...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

Unnatural Death, by Dorothy Sayers

Mystery novels thrive on novelty, on how to murder the victim and hide the perpetrator...

December 24, 2013

Clouds of Witness, by Dorothy Sayers

In Whose Body?, Lord Peter Wimsey's brother the Duke of Denver wishes that Lord Peter...

December 17, 2013

Whose Body?, by Dorothy Sayers

Sometimes you go back to a book you remember with delight, and you wonder what...

December 10, 2013

Lord of the Isles, by David Drake

Many years ago now I picked up David Drake's epic fantasy Lord of the Isles,...

December 09, 2013

Real Pulp Fiction

The most excellent Tom McDonald has found a source for high-quality scans of the pulp...

December 03, 2013

Stopping for a Spell, by Diana Wynne Jones

What if the old armchair in front of the TV—the uncomfortable one that's been there...

November 2013

November 26, 2013

A College of Magics, by Caroline Stevermer

The title of Caroline Stevermer's A College of Magics makes it sound like yet another...

November 19, 2013

Power of Three, by Diana Wynne Jones

A boy, son of the chief of a clan living in a mound on an...

November 16, 2013

What Not To Read on a Fourteen Hour Flight

I wrote this review of Stephen King's Everything's Eventual in March of 2013. Reading this...

November 12, 2013

Three Parts Dead, by Max Gladstone

In Three Parts Dead, Max Gladstone paints a picture of a fascinating world where gods...

October 2013

October 28, 2013

The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin

Rachel Griffin, youngest child of the Duke of Devon, has read (and memorized) almost every...

October 26, 2013

City of the Beasts

A rare negative book review from January, 2003, of Isabel Allende's City of the Beasts....

October 25, 2013

Ghost Story

Ghost Story is the 13th novel in Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, immediately following after Changes....

October 17, 2013

Dresden Files: Changes

Harry Dresden has a problem…and if I told you what it was, you'd have to...

October 15, 2013

The Dresden Files

Harry Dresden's a man of the dirty streets of Chicago, a tarnished knight who can't...

October 10, 2013

Christianity in Three Books

Rod Dreher has asked his readers to pick three books about Christianity to recommend to...

October 08, 2013

Marie: The Youth of Allan Quatermain

I've been aware of story-teller H. Rider Haggard since I was a kid, when my...

October 04, 2013

The Warden

The Warden is the first of Anthony Trollope's Barsetshire novels, which I started reading many...

October 02, 2013

Declare

Brandon Watson has some words about Declare, by Tim Powers, a kind of supernatural spy...