Since there are only a couple hours left for April, I should probably get around to doing my March book list.

Starting with Ian Fleming's Live & Let Die. Which was really surprisingly racist. I mean enough that I had to give up on it about a quarter way in. I guess I'll never know if the scene where James Bond runs across the backs of a pond ( Read more... )

Feb 2nd: Eric Flint (ed) - Ring of Fire II: The second "pro" anthology for Flint's shared world 1632 series...

Robert Parker - Spare Change: Not the most recent Sunny Randal book, but the most recent I own right now. Sunny and her father team-up to bring down a serial killer who returns after a two decade hiatus...

Feb 6th: Jon Meacham - ( Read more... )

Oh gods. This books sucks soooooo much. I've dogged on other super-hero books but this one. The constant barrage of bad pseudo-psychiatric terms. The terrible characters. The ludicrous plotting. The Claremontian accents. The utterly, totally shitty ending. I want to track down Minister Faust (and what the hell kind of name is that? Thats ( Read more... )

Brian M. Bendis confirms Canada = Evil!

( Osborn makes his recruitment pitch to Emma )

I need something else to read for later. This vampire series by David Wellington isn't going to work for me. Unless the second half of the first books shows a REMARKABLE upgrade in quality there's no way I want to bother with the next two. From the overdone quality of the supposedly official incident report that opens the book to the out-of- ( Read more... )

Blah. I'm just over fifty pages in and I'm bored. And annoyed. This is not a good book. I'm expected to accept that a group (who we've been told have all these elite spies and soldiers, who have very recently won a civil war, who KNOW that the loser of that war will be back soon) didn't keep watch on an exiled royal? That the guard they had on ( Read more... )

Wondering what this is? If, like me, you don't read any Japanese let me explain what is behind this link. Manga versions of Eddings Belgariad/Malloream series. Which makes the burning pain behind my eyes come back...