Look to your right, and you’ll see a “Recommended Reads” section on my sidebar. (Scroll down if you don’t see it. Please, be my guest.)
I decided to use the GoodReads widget in a slightly different way.
Instead of announcing to the world what I’m reading right this very moment, I decided to use it to recommended [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Books category.
A Note on “Recommended Reads”
Dilemma
The third and final novel of Brandon Sanderon’s incredible Mistborn trilogy — The Hero of Ages — just arrived on my doorstep thanks to my friends UPS driver. I’ve been eager to read this book since reading Books One and Two.
Yet, I’m about 60 pages into The Great Hunt, and though I read the first [...]
Finished Eye of the World
A few nights ago, I finished Book 1 of The Wheel of Time (The Eye of the World) and now I’m on to Book 2, The Great Hunt.
As I’ve noted before, this was the third time I read The Eye of the World. That’s a lot for me; I generally don’t reread books — even [...]
Thoughts on The Eye of the World (Pt. 1)
I just finished Chapter 18 of The Eye of the World, the first book in Robert Jordan’s massive Wheel of Time series. Moiraine, weakened from fending off hundreds of Trollocs who are after three three boys from the Two Rivers, has acquiesced to Lan’s suggestion to find refuge in Shadar Logoth. I’ve read Eye twice [...]
9,300 Pages
That’s the total number of pages in the first eleven volumes of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time, counting along with them the very short prequel, New Spring.
I have no idea how long it’s going to take me to read through this series. On good days — by which I mean that I have not [...]
Wheel of Time Read Through
With the announcement that Part 1 of the final Wheel of Time novel will be released this November, I have decided to try to read the previous twelve books over the next several months.
Have I read these books before?
The first one, yes. Twice, in fact. And I loved every pages of The Eye of the [...]
Black Gate: Adventures in Fantasy Literature # 13
Well, I’ve decided to give Black Gate a try, and so I ordered Issue 13.
It’s not often that I desire to read short fiction, and when I do, I’m not one to be very adventurous with my reading. That is to say, I tend to grab an anthology by an author I know I’ll like [...]
My 5 Favorite Short Story Collections
1. Night Shift by Stephen King. Is there a bad story in this collection? “Battleground,” perhaps. But as far as I’m concerned, every story in this book is a miniature masterpiece — a must read for any King fan. And anyone who has read The Stand and Salem’s Lot can’t help but enjoying both “Night [...]
Review of Guide to Writing Fiction by Phyllis A. Whitney
At 141 pages, Phyllis A. Whitney’s Guide to Writing Fiction is short and to the point. And since it was written in the early 1980’s, you probably don’t have to worry about the final chapter on marketing and selling your novel — so you can lob off the last five pages.
But the rest of the [...]
My 5 Favorite Science Fiction Books
1. Gateway by Frederik Pohl. I’d have to say that this is my all-time favorite science fiction novel. The way Pohl brings the double-story lines — one set in the present, the other in the past; one psychological, the other science-fictional; one highly personal, the other a thrilling treasure hunt — together at the end [...]
