I posted a bit over a year ago about an online friend getting real-life published.

I bought her book, Runtime, reviewed on goodreads, but apparently forgot to post that here:

The story was excellent, and for all it's a novella, the main character especially was well described. You never really feel sorry for the Marmeg because you know she's ( Read more... )

A couple are missing, but mostly I kept track of things this past year, I think for only the first and second time. One thing I had no realized, since so much of my reading is on the Kindle, is that my average book length was 420 pages. I also find it funny that the most popular book I read was one of the ones I liked the least ( Read more... )

It could have been good, a new take on magic, a rather interesting one.

It wasn't.

Because the author, like so many, wanted to pretend why was writing fantasy, but she was in fact writing a romance.

Which is fine. Just called is magical romance, and be honest about it.

The books? Not linking, but The Paper Magician, The Glass Magician, and The ( Read more... )

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss ( Read more... )

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee ( Read more... )

The Diet Fix by Dr Yoni Freedhoff.

Dr Freedhoff is also the author on my of my favourite blogs, Weighty Matters. He's an Ottawa physician who now specialises in weight loss, and was -for full wow! factor- one of the people behind Disney quickly dismantling their cruel-to-fat-kids Habit Heroes or whatever it was called exhibit ( Read more... )

The $1,000 Genome: The Revolution in DNA Sequencing and the New Era of Personalized Medicine by Kevin Davies ( Read more... )

The Viral Storm by Nathan Wolfe.

Us, viruses -vrii?- and how we met and interacted over the years. Who kills who. Who might kill who. And who do we figure out who will kill next.

The good...It's a short, interesting read. It does get repetitive (see below) but covers quite a bit of ground. The subject matter is interesting as well, and the author ( Read more... )

I got this one for free for my Kindle. It was the (one of the?) Amazon Breakthrough novel(?)s for last year.

And it was quite good. I was surprised.

See, mostly I feel that Very Few authors can do time travel well. That very few many actually be like, three. So it was quite a nice surprise that this one was so good.

( Spoilers.... )

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell.

I desperately wanted to love this book. Desperately.

I mean... a book about a girl who lives in a poorly disguised Potterverse, ships what would be Harry/Draco, and in which these words were written:

"Why are you reading that?" Wren had asked when she noticed ( Read more... )