The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C.S. Lewis, 1952, 216 pages.
9/10. Easily the best book in the Narnia series. I read them in grade school, and this one and The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe are the only two that stuck in my memory over the years.

Detective Comics #853 (Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? part 2 of 2), Neil Gaiman, 2009, 28 ( Read more... )

Casino Royale, Ian Fleming, 1953, 144 pages.
8/10. Very well written. Bond makes a much more interesting character in a book than on film. It has the same grim tone as the recent movie; I'm curious to see if that keeps up through the rest of the series (hard to imagine with titles like Moonraker).

Batman #685 (Catspaw), Paul Dini, 2009, 22 pages ( Read more... )

Good Omens, Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, 1990, 384 pages ( Read more... )

I stumbled across groups on LiveJournal and on LibraryThing where people challenge themselves to read 50 books in a year, or 15,000 pages in a year, or whatever goal they set for themselves. I don't know why you'd do that in a group, but it sounds fun to do. So I will. Starting last night (about 10:30 PST, September 17th) (with Good Omens), I'm ( Read more... )

Copying-and-pasting my book reviews from LibraryThing to here (starting where I left off half a year or so ago), so I'm not spread around the internet so much. But mostly because I noticed that when I add to a review on there (such as reviewing the 2nd book in an omnibus), the rss feed doesn't update. Still going to put my reviews on LibraryThing ( Read more... )

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