Review Archive

Books I’ve commented on:

Achebe, Chinua
Things Fall Apart
Arrow of God
Adams, Scott
What Would Wally Do?
Journey to Cubeville
Positive Attitude
Ahmed, Qanta A.
In the Land of Invisible Women
Armstrong, Mabel
Women Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars
Atwood, Margaret
Alias Grace
Ambaum, Gene
Unshelved
Library Mascot Cage Match
Read Responsibly
Anonymous
Mankind
Austin, Julia J.
It Starts with You!

Banks, Russell
The Sweet Hereafter
Barnes, Bill
Unshelved
Library Mascot Cage Match
Read Responsibly
Barry, Max
Jennifer Government
Bennet, Arnold
Anna of the Five Towns
Brontë, Anne
Agnes Grey
Bruno, Nancy
Genuine Men

Colbert, Steven
I Am America (and So Can You)
Conley, Darby
Blueprint for Disaster
Connolly, John
The Book of Lost Things
Conrad, Joseph
Under Western Eyes
Coupland, Douglas
Jpod
Courtenay, Bryce
Four Fires

Doidge, Norman
The Brain that Changes Itself

Essex, Karen
Stealing Athena

Fforde, Jasper
The Big Over Easy
The Fourth Bear
Fielding, Helen
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Findley, Timothy
The Wars

Gibson, William
The Difference Engine
George, Elizabeth
A Place of Hiding
Playing for the Ashes
Deception on His Mind
Green, John
Looking for Alaska

Hannah, Kristin
Firefly Lane
Heller, Joseph
Catch-22
Henry, Marguerite
Misty of Chincoteague
Høeg, Peter
Smilla’s Sense of Snow
Humbert, Agnès
Résistance

Irving, John
A Prayer for Owen Meany

James, Henry
What Maisy Knew

Kay, Guy Gavriel
The Lions of Al-Rassan
Kays, Wendy
Game Widow
Kent, Kathleen
The Heretic’s Daughter
Kneale, Matthew
When We Were Romans
Knelman, Joshua
Four Letter Word
Kyd, Thomas
The Spanish Tragedy

Laurence, Margaret
The Fire-Dwellers
A Jest of God
Lee, Steve N.
What If . . . ?
Lehrer, Jonah
Proust was a Neuroscientist
Leigh, Tamara
Faking Grace
Lessing, Doris
The Grass is Singing
Lewis, C. S.
The Screwtape Letters
Lucas, Alec
Great Canadian Short Stories
Lyly, John
Endymion

MacDonald, Ann-Marie
Fall on Your Knees
Marlowe, Christopher
Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1
Dr Faustus
Edward II
McEwan, Ian
Atonement
Mitchell, R. B.
Castaway Kid
Molloy, Kathleen
Dining with Death
Moon, Elizabeth
Victory Conditions
Moore, Alan
V for Vendetta
Munro, Alice
Lives of Girls and Women

Nabukov, Vladimir
Lolita

O’Malley, Bryan Lee
Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life

Page, Glen
The Last Plague
Paterson, Katherine
Bridge to Terabithia
Peretti, Frank
Piercing the Darkness
The Oath
Pickering, Mark B.
Story of the Sand
Pollan, Michael
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Porter, Rosalind
Four Letter Word
Pratchett, Terry
Making Money
Thud!
Maskerade
Carpe Jugulum
The Last Continent
Small Gods
Lords and Ladies
Pyramids
Wyrd Sisters
Reaper Man
Thief of Time
Witches Abroad
Equal Rites
Moving Pictures
A Hatful of Sky
Pridmore, Ron
Templeton Turtle Goes Exploring

Reichs, Kathy
Fatal Voyage
Roy, Gabrielle
The Road Past Altamont
Rutherfurd, Edward
The Princes of Ireland

Sacks, David
Letter Perfect
Satrapi, Marjane
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Savage, J. Scott
Farworld: Water Keep
Sayers, Dorothy L.
Gaudy Night
Sheerin, G. L.
Virus Games
Simpson, Steve
Runaway
Soyinka, Wole
Death and the King’s Horseman
Sterling, Bruce
The Difference Engine
Stevenson, R. L.
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Stross, Charles
Halting State
Stroud, Jonathan
The Bartimaeus Trilogy

Tan, Shaun
Tales from Outer Suburbia
Tolkein, J. R. R.
The Hobbit
Tremayne, Peter
Absolution by Murder
Tuck, Lily
The News from Paraguay

Uchida, Yasuo
The Togakushi Legend Murders
Urqhart, Jane
Storm Glass

van Lustbader, Eric
First Daughter

Walker, Kate
Spanish Billionaire, Innocent Wife
Watterson, Bill
Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons
Yukon Ho!
There’s Treasure Everywhere
Wickham, Madeleine
Swimming Pool Sunday
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Little House in the Big Woods
Little House on the Prairie
On the Banks of Plum Creek
Farmer Boy
By the Shores of Silver Lake
The Long Winter
These Happy Golden Years
Wilkes, Ann
Awesome Lavratt
Winner, Lauren F.
Girl Meets God
Wodehouse, P. G.
My Man Jeeves
Woodring, Susan
Springtime on Mars

Yoshimoto, Banana
Asleep

Zelazny, Roger
Nine Princes in Amber
The Guns of Avalon
Sign of the Unicorn
The Hand of Oberon
The Courts of Chaos
Zimmerman, Marvin L.
The Ovum Factor
Zipp, Steve
Yellowknife
Zusak, Markus
The Book Thief

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