lisa h. and i went to see this saturday night. since it's running through october 26th, and folks might be inspired to go to it, i'll make this a public post ( Read more... )

there is a huge problem with books that are really not standalone books. you don't want to recommend that people read them until the second half is published, but if there are no sales, then there might not be a release of the second half. and that's what's missing here, the second half. (i assume it's a duology, like the first two books that ( Read more... )

i mostly don't review books that are on their third reread by me and were published decades ago, but the experience of reading this book was so tedious, that i feel compelled to say something so that i'll remember ( Read more... )

went last night to see a play at steppenwolf and thought i might give it a bit of a boost (to the huge readership of this LJ ;-) ). mind you, i don't think it's for everyone, but read a bit to see if it might be for you.

it's by bruce norris, who won a pulitzer and a tony for clybourne park, so we're in good hands as far as the writing. it takes ( Read more... )

a sequel to emilie and the hollow world, and i think i may have liked this one better, though i liked both. emilie has returned from her adventure in the hollow world, and she barely manages to catch her breath before she is whisked away on another adventure as there is a disturbance in the aether current, and when the marlendes are called upon to ( Read more... )

this is not the review i promised you a few posts back, which would have been of kingdoms of dust by amanda downum. which was the third in a trilogy and a perfectly fine book, though i think it would be a terrible starting point in the series (i read the second book first, which worked okay--this book seemed to refer back to the other two every ( Read more... )

what is essential is invisible to the eye ( Read more... )

do you all recall when i was doing some light copy-editing (and i guess you'd call it beta-reading) of my friend, mitzi's, murder mystery? someone wrote a rather interesting review of it ( Read more... )

this is pitched as a YA book and it does have a younger protagonist but it's not filled with sparkly vampires or anything that's part of the YA trendiness. it's more of a rip-roaring yarn sort of book. emilie has run away from her aunt and uncle for reasons that become clearer and clearer as the book progresses. she is trying to get to the ( Read more... )

the first scalzi book that i've read that isn't in the "old man's war" universe. now, how to describe it without giving away too much ( Read more... )