What I've Finished Reading

Love Lies Bleeding turned out to be pretty good! Fen remarks at one point that he's calmed down a lot in the past ten years, which is accurate. More accurately: it's just much better constructed than The Moving Toyshop, so we don't end up stuck in a lot of cul-de-sacs with Fen doing half-formed stand-up routines, there's ( Read more... )

What I've Just Finished Reading

I haven't seen it in many years, but The Maltese Falcon was one of my favorite movies from childhood; I loved the mythical golden bird that may not even exist anymore under its protective enamel, and Sydney Greenstreet's never-ending list of things he doesn't trust in a man, and the great line, "I couldn't be fonder ( Read more... )

The Floating Admiral lags and wanders a lot in the middle, but what can you expect? It's still better plotted and more engaging than some single-author books I can think of. The wrap-up by Berkeley was funny and fairly smart, and it was a lot of fun to read the solutions that had been posted along with each chapter and to see what got picked up on ( Read more... )