Jumping quickly between Sanderson's Mistborn, Wells's Mr Monster, and Bujold's Cryoburn can be a bit disorienting.  Mistborn is an apocolyptic high fantasy crossed with big heist book.  Mr Monster is more a contemporary psychological thriller.  Cryoburn is a far future sleuth story mixed with social comedy.  Tone, setting, themes, all are very ( Read more... )

Over the last week I've read four new books.  Folks who know me know I'm always reading, but what they don't always realize is I'm mostly rereading.  Alas, over time my tastes have narrowed and my courage to try new things has waned (negative reinforcement works!), so finding so many interesting books in such a short time is very pleasant.  Of ( Read more... )

Just finished a fantasy series and Durarara! ep8.

The fantasy series is one I call the Path trilogy by some woman.  Very mediocre.  The general idea is alright, but several major flaws.  The first comprises giant skips in the narrative, which generally occur during complicated (and thus inherently interesting) points.  Oh, there's a giant battle ( Read more... )

Instead of studying for my Japanese final this week, I read the first 5 books of Amber by Roger Zelazny ( Read more... )

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This last week I've been alternating my anime schedule with eps of Gundam and Gakkou no Kaiden between new season shows.  I find that literally alternating is pretty helpful with preventing stalling out on the series.  The rapid pace and serial development of latter Gundam eps and the slow, episodic nature of GnK actually complement each other ( ( Read more... )

I recently finished Howard L. Myers's A Sense of Infinity, which is a collection of 3 of his short books which were themselves collections of short(ish) stories.  It seems that along with the stories in The Creatures of Man, these make up the entire collection of his published works.  This is a true shame as he was a very gifted storyteller.  While ( Read more... )