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
Ambaum, Gene
—Unshelved
—Library Mascot Cage Match
—Read Responsibly
Anderson, M. T.
—The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party
Anonymous
—Mankind
Asprin, Robert and Peter J. Heck
—Phule’s Company (series)
Atwood, Margaret
—Alias Grace
Austin, Julia J.
—It Starts with You!
Avi
—The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

Banks, Russell
—The Sweet Hereafter
Barnes, Bill
—Unshelved
—Library Mascot Cage Match
—Read Responsibly
Barrows, Annie
—The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Barry, Max
—Jennifer Government
Bennet, Arnold
—Anna of the Five Towns
Bhutto, Benazir
—Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West
Blume, Judy
—Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
—Summer Sisters
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

Davies, Robertson
—What’s Bred in the Bone
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
Fisher, Deborah J.
—Four Secrets to Liking Your Work

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

Hannah, Kristin
—Firefly Lane
Heck, Peter J. and Robert Asprin
—Phule’s Company (series)
Heinlein, Robert A.
—Starman Jones
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
Jerome, Jerome K.
—Three Men in a Boat

Kay, Guy Gavriel
—The Lions of Al-Rassan
Kays, Wendy
—Game Widow
Keene, Carolyn
—The Secret of the Old Clock
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
Munzio, Edward G.
—Four Secrets to Liking Your Work

Nabukov, Vladimir
—Lolita

O’Brian, Patrick
—H.M.S. Surprise
O’Malley, Bryan Lee
—Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life

Page, Glen
—The Last Plague
Paterson, Katherine
—Bridge to Terabithia
Pattillo, Beth
—Jane Austen Ruined my Life
Paul, Pamela
—Parenting, Inc.
Paulsen, Gary
—Hatchet
Peretti, Frank
—Piercing the Darkness
—The Oath
Pickering, Mark B.
—Story of the Sand
Picoult, Jodi
—Vanishing Acts
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
—Temperance Brennan Books (series)
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
Schaffer, Mary Ann
—The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Setterfield, Diane
—The Thirteenth Tale
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
Taylor, Jill Bolte
—My Stroke of Insight
Thomas, Erv
—Four Secrets to Liking Your Work
Tolkein, J. R. R.
—The Hobbit
Tremayne, Peter
—Absolution by Murder
Tuck, Lily
—The News from Paraguay
Tutuola, Amos
—My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

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
Willis, Connie
—Doomsday Book
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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