Category Archives: books

Review: N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

I’m not gonna lie: I picked up this book because of the cover. I was wan­der­ing through the library and it was fac­ing out on a shelf of new fic­tion. The col­ors caught my eye, and then I looked more closely at it and thought, “AWESOME, a woman of color is the hero­ine!” And, after fin­ish­ing …

3 April 2010 – 3:40 pm | By bibliotrek | Posted in books, reviews | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Dorothy Dunnett’s Lymond Chronicles: Book 2, Queens’ Play

I don’t know what it is about Queens’ Play that makes it impos­si­ble for me to fin­ish. Every other book in the series is com­pul­sively read­able, but Queens’ Play just bogs down for me every time. It’s not Thady Boy Bal­lagh, because I always put the book down after that sec­tion  —  although, now that I think …

26 March 2010 – 3:39 pm | By bibliotrek | Posted in books, reviews | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

Review: Maureen Johnson, Suite Scarlett

This book reminded me of Dodie Smith’s I Cap­ture the Cas­tle. Since I love I Cap­ture the Cas­tle, this is high praise! Unfor­tu­nately, though, I loved this book so much that even though John­son just pub­lished the sequel, Scar­lett Fever, I can’t bring myself to read it because I don’t want to tar­nish Suite Scar­lett’s …

21 February 2010 – 10:23 pm | By bibliotrek | Posted in books, reviews | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Review: Steven Brust and Emma Bull, Freedom & Necessity

Some alchemy hap­pened about 75 pages into Free­dom & Neces­sity. I went from forc­ing myself slowly onward (my pre­vi­ous attempt to read the book ended at page 60) to being unable to put it down. I love Susan most of all, but the other three main char­ac­ters  —  James, Kitty, and Richard  —  are also well-drawn and extremely lik­able, …

11 February 2010 – 9:10 pm | By bibliotrek | Posted in books, reviews | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)