The Searcher by Tana FrenchMystery464 pages After retiring from a decades-long career on the Chicago police force, Cal Hooper decides to buy a fixer-upper on a plot of land in rural western Ireland. He's tired of solving other people's problems, and wants to get the 'detective itch' out of his system. Moving to Ireland gets … Continue reading Book Review: The Searcher
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Book Review: To Be Taught, if Fortunate
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky ChambersScience Fiction138 pages In the not-so-far-away future, four astronauts leave Earth to explore interstellar space. Thanks to the unfathomable distance and the time it takes to travel the distance between stars, they spend the majority of the journey in cryosleep, where they age incredibly slowly compared to the … Continue reading Book Review: To Be Taught, if Fortunate
Book Review: Promise of Blood
Promise of Blood (The Powder Mage Trilogy #1) by Brian McClellanFantasy545 pagesPublished April, 2013, by Orbit "The age of kings is dead," Field Marshal Tamas declares at the beginning of Promise of Blood, after he stages a bloody coup that brings and end to the corrupt and inept monarchy that enriched itself while allowing the … Continue reading Book Review: Promise of Blood
Book Review: The Lost Queen
The Lost Queen (The Lost Queen trilogy #1)by Signe PikeHistorical Fantasy527 pagesPublished September, 2018, by Touchstone Though scholars and armchair historians have spent centuries debating the historicity of the stories of King Arthur and his knights, no one has ever nailed down historical figures who can be decisively called 'King Arthur' or 'Merlin' and serve … Continue reading Book Review: The Lost Queen
Book Review: The Light Ages
The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science by Seb Falk416 pagesHistory/SciencePublished November 17, 2020, by W.W. Norton & Company The common view of the medieval era in Europe is that it was a period of darkness. That it was an age when science was forgotten and books languished in the dusty back rooms … Continue reading Book Review: The Light Ages
Book Review: The Women I Think About at Night
The Women I Think About at Night: Traveling the Paths of my HeroesBy Mia Kankimäki, translated from the Finnish by Douglas RobinsonMemoir/History416 pagesPublished November 10, 2020, by Simon & Schuster Forty-something Mia Kankimäki doesn't have children or a fulfilling job. But she does have a collection of what she calls her 'Night Women', women from … Continue reading Book Review: The Women I Think About at Night
Book Review: The Fabric of Civilization
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the Worldby Virginia PostrelNonfiction/History320 pagesExpected publication date: November 10, 2020 by Basic Books If a sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, as Virginia Postrel reasons in her new book, The Fabric of Civilization, then a sufficiently ubiquitous technology is indistinguishable from nature. Though fabric suffuses our lives, … Continue reading Book Review: The Fabric of Civilization
Book Review: Machine
Machine (White Space #2)by Elizabeth BearScience Fiction496 pagesPublication date: October 20, 2020 by Saga Press Doctor Brookllyn Jens loves her job. She's a rescue worker who, like a daredevil, leaps through empty space from one ship to another to save people in need of rescue from the endless dangers of interstellar travel. Jens loves her … Continue reading Book Review: Machine
Book Review: Black Sun
Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky #1) by Rebecca RoanhorseFantasy464 pagesExpected publication: October 13, 2020 by Saga Press In the holy city of Tova, priests of the many gods gather to greet the oncoming winter solstice which converges with a rare solar eclipse, a dark omen that foretells the unbalancing of the world. As the … Continue reading Book Review: Black Sun
Book Review: The Haunting of H.G. Wells
The Haunting of H.G. Wells by Robert MaselloHistorical Thriller/Paranormal398 pagesExpected publication: October 1, 2020 by 47 North After a strange story appears in newspapers about a platoon of soldiers in the trenches of France being saved from certain death by the appearance of ghosts, the British government recruits celebrated science fiction author H.G. Wells to … Continue reading Book Review: The Haunting of H.G. Wells
