The Complete Handbook Of Novel Writing: Everything You Need To Know About Creating & Selling Your Work by Writer’s Digest Books My rating: 5 of 5 stars An excellent writing guide, suited for writers of all levels. I think this collection of essays and articles will have the most utility to the beginning writer. There’s […]
Read More Book Review: The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing (Writer’s Digest)Pavane by Keith Roberts My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club. Who’s this Keith Roberts guy? I wondered. I had never heard of him. But lots of people I had heard of had, because they all did blurbs for this edition of this book: Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, […]
Read More Book Review: Pavane by Keith RobertsThe Fountains Of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke My rating: 4 of 5 stars Read for the SF Masterworks Reading Challenge and Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club here on Goodreads, the 12 in 12 Challenge, the LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Reading Challenge, and the Hard Core Sci-Fi Challenge. This book won the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 1979/1980, and was nominated […]
Read More Book Review: The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. ClarkeOnce Upon a Time in the Wyrd West by Diane Morrison My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is the long-promised print collection of the first six of the Wyrd West Chronicles, originally written as an ebook serial. Some minor changes to the text have been made in order to facilitate the flow of a […]
Read More My Goodreads Book Review: Once Upon a Time in the Wyrd WestBinti by Nnedi Okorafor My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the 12 in 12 Challenge, the Big Fun in a Little Package Novella Challenge, the Women of Genre Fiction Challenge, and the Space Opera Challenge. Winner of the 2016 Hugo and Nebula awards, nominee for the BSFA, BFA and Locus awards. I always […]
Read More Book Review: Binti by Nnedt OkoraforA Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’Engle My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Big Fun in a Little Package Novella Challenge. This was actually the first book in this series I read. It so absorbed me that I sought out the rest of the series wherever I found it. Once again, a […]
Read More Book Review: A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’EngleA Wind in the Door by Madeleine L’Engle My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Big Fun in a Little Package Novella Challenge and the Women of Genre Fiction Challenge. I read this book as a child (obviously I don’t remember what day, but I’m guessing based on the age I was and […]
Read More Book Review: A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L’EngleA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Women of Genre Fiction Challenge and the Space Opera Challenge. I last read this book when I was still a child. I was prompted to a re-read because of the release of the movie, so I could compare and […]
Read More Book Review: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’EngleBeasts of Tabat by Cat Rambo My rating: 4 of 5 stars Read for the Women of Genre Fiction Challenge. I read this book in part because I’ve come to know Cat Rambo through my work with the SFWA YouTube channel (for those who don’t know, she’s the current President of SFWA.) I heard she […]
Read More Book Review: Beasts of Tabat by Cat RamboThe Road by Cormac McCarthy My rating: 2 of 5 stars Read for the Apocalypse Now Reading Challenge. For me, this book was a resounding meh. I have read an awful lot of post-apocalyptic fiction. For me, Pulitzer Prize or not, this book added nothing new to the genre. It’s beautifully written, don’t get me […]
Read More Book Review: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
