Flash of Steel Playing at the World Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Sitrep Hex and Violence Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Ravens N’ Pennies Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsI decided to go with chronological order as I catch up with the Penric series (…”catch up” is probably the wrong term here; perhaps “tread water”), and I’m glad I did. This one features the return of the characters from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I picked this up for cheap on Kindle some time ago, and meant to get to it a lot sooner than this. Especially as its part of an interesting period as our perception of how the world works. Winchester is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second Penric story feels a lot better developed than the first. It’s also about 60 pages longer, which for a novella is quite a difference. Things happen instead of merely happen to Penric. Penric is not the only viewpoint[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I haven’t kept any sort of real eye on new releases in decades, so I’ve only been peripherally aware of Brian Sanderson and Mistborn. And it’s popular enough that I couldn’t not be aware of it. Generally, it lives up[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bennett’s main goal is to examine Nelson as a naval commander, and see if and why he deserves his plaudits as the greatest naval commander of all time. Despite the focus, it turns into a full-fledged biography of Nelson, albeit[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Too often, brief looks at the Conquest start at Stamford Bridge and end at Hastings. Well, this isn’t a brief look. Morris starts with nearly a century’s worth of Anglo-Saxon politics, including the fact that much of Anglo-Saxon “England” had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second half of Lisinthir’s Heirs is just that, the second half of the story begun in Dragon’s Fealty. It does have an interesting way to to begin, with two characters waking up and recovering from the trauma at the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
About the time I finished reading Dreamhearth, I happened on a giveaway for a couple of Hogarth’s other books, and got them. It turned out that they’re very late on in things, and there is a warning up front about[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was a difficult book for me. In general, an examination of food sources and consumption in the Revolutionary War era is a good topic. Personally, I found the treatment here not so good. One problem, of course, is I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s been a while since I read the initial Mindtouch/Mindline duology, but I had no problems getting back into this. I think the fact that it is a fairly unique story (on the dream-therapy end) well-done helped keep it fairly[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…