onefinemess | February 23, 2010
The Vanishing Tower (Elric 4) &
The Bane of the Black Sword (Elric 5)
both by: Michael Moorcock
I haven’t even finished Bane yet, but I’m confident enough to write the review ahead of time.
Here’s how it goes: Elric is chasing some guy that wronged him a book or two ago, and in the process has various [...]
onefinemess | February 19, 2010
Go go oxford comma!
Ahem. Anyway. So! I’ve always been somewhat of an evangelist — but not in the religious sense (although I did go through a phase that could be said to approximate that O.o). I’ve always been maybe a little too motivated (at least internally) about sharing the music & books that I enjoy [...]
onefinemess | February 18, 2010
Turn Coat
by: Jim Butcher
Even though I was impatient enough to move over to the hardcovers, I still went into this expecting to be finally bored by the series. I mean, 10/11 books is a lot for a series, you know? That’s a lot of investment into characters, story, etc. for no “big” payoff. Lots of [...]
onefinemess | February 15, 2010
American Colonies
by: Alan Taylor
Yeah, that’s why it’s been so long since I wrote a book review – because history takes me forever to digest. Don’t get me wrong – it’s very interesting (hence the whole me reading it bit) – I just have to eat it in bite sized pieces. Usually, to the preclusion of [...]
onefinemess | January 30, 2010
Are urban fantasy covers “ruining” it? Rendering it trashier? And keep in mind I ask this as a writer of UF.
I put “ruining” in quotes because well, it’s all relative isn’t it…?
So, am I getting at?
Well, let’s start with an illustration. I picked out four books, somewhat at random, on my last trip into a [...]
onefinemess | January 27, 2010
It should be obvious by now that I’m reading these two series in tandem. The enjoyment I’m drawing from one helps me plod through brief sojourns with the other in the interim. Almost like it’s WORK!
Small Favor (Dresden Files 10)
by: Jim Butcher
This series just keeps getting better. The entanglement levels of the various A & [...]
onefinemess | January 20, 2010
Proven Guilty (Dresden Files #8)
by: Jim Butcher
I think I mentioned in my last review how the series had hit another roadmark with the last book, and it’s good to see that Butcher hasn’t slipped on the quality level yet. I wasn’t particularly intrigued by the main plot’s setting – a horror convention under attack from [...]
onefinemess | January 17, 2010
So, here’s the pile I’ve got to start off my year. Albeit not in pile form. I assume you can do the mental rotations and stacking, should you require that format to be suitably amused.
Except for that book on the far left (Sorceror’s Apprentice. I only paid a $1 for it…and may finish it someday), [...]
onefinemess | January 14, 2010
Dead Beat (Dresden Files #7)
by: Jim Butcher
I wish I’d written this review closer to the time when I finished, as I had some rather strong opinions about it at that point ….aaannnnnd I pretty much can’t remember them right now. Still, it’s time to move this downstairs, so the spice… err review must flow!
I think [...]
onefinemess | January 8, 2010
I read a bought a few more books last year than I did cds…what can I say, they are 1/3 the price and oh, right, books are awesome.
I don’t have the energy to manually link to the reviews – I probably reviewed most of them. For the sake of having a link to brandish, here’s [...]
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