Ok, so what I said a few days ago turns out to be wrong. Wouldn't you know, the very next book I read after "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" has a longer title ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I did a book review, but probably that's because it has been a while since I finished a book.

Such is the state of my life.

Anyway, I recently finished the book with the longest title of any book I'm likely to read for the next several years: Sherman Alexie's debut work The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven[Caveat ( Read more... )

Just how should one capitalize "two-fer" anyway?

So I read a couple of ostensibly realistic YA sci-fi novels recently, to help get mentally ready for this year's NaNoWriMo.  These were nominated by the staff at the Redmond Public Library as good pics for "realistic" + YA + Sci-fi.

The first was Life As We Knew It, by Susan Beth Pfeffer.  The second ( Read more... )

Although I recall having read both Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn many years ago, I just finished re-reading them again.  I did so because I wanted to get an ear full of the language of the mid 1800s, from a well respected writer who was there to hear it, so I can do a more credible job of portraying that time in the dialogue in Wiry Fellows.

For ( Read more... )

This will probably be the last book review for a while. I'm going to be super-busy until, oh, probably late July with my latest project: www.longtalepress.com. I'll save details on that for another post, so stay tuned ( Read more... )

Up today, an impulse purchase spurred on by a great catchy title:

King Dork by Frank Portman ( Read more... )

Today we have a book that made it to the big screen:

Jumper by, um, Steven Gould. Sorry, had to go look that up ( Read more... )

Up today we have a non-western novel from a novelist known best for his westerns.

The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry

I picked this one up because, to be honest, it wasn't too long. When I told my Dad that I was reading Valdez is Coming to get a feel for "real" westerns, he said I should read McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, which Dad said was ( Read more... )

Today on Cloister's Book Reviews, we have a classic of nerd literature:

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett ( Read more... )

Because I am a Horrible Procrastinator, I haven't been writing up my book reviews like I should. Those who have long memories will recall that my new year's resolution was to complete a set of writing exercises, in order to build my writing skills, before I let myself do an edit pass on last year's NaNoWriMo manuscript ( Read more... )