( Decoded )

( The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy )

Since I have so many books on my to-review list, this iteration is books that I felt particularly strongly about, or that I felt had some outstanding characteristic. [grin] You have been warned.

( Butterflies in November )

Hello, Internet! Madly behind on book reviews again. This time I'm splitting by literary geography. Next up, North America.

( The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal )

( A Night in the Lonesome October )

Hello, Internet! After tithenai's glowing review some months back, I put Ken Liu's "The Grace of Kings" on my to-read list. I recently finished, and said on Goodreads:

This was a good book that came so close to being a great book. Truly excellent world-building, well realized characters who develop and change, compelling moral dilemmas with clear paths ( Read more... )

( Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions )

( The Ramal Extraction/The Vastalimi Gambit/The Tejano Conflict )

Still way behind on book reviews (I have an entire list open in another tab), but these two books were so unusual that they deserve their own post. I spent a lot of last week babysitting *nix installs, which has long periods of waiting in it. I learned through Sherwood Smith's blog that her co-author on their recent book, the "Yes Gay YA" one, ( Read more... )

Still working my way through the review backlog! But I got most of the books I didn't like out of the way in my post of a few days ago, so these are all but one books I would lend someone I liked. [grin]

( Crux )