The Cassandra by Sharma Shields This book is ostensibly about the nuclear development site at Hanford, WA: "Established in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project in Hanford, south-central Washington, the site was home to the B Reactor, the first full-scale plutonium production reactor in the world.[1] Plutonium manufactured at the site was used in… Continue reading The Cassandra: a review
Cover art Greystone Secrets: The Strangers by Margaret Peterson Haddix This is an interesting premise in an interesting world. Each section of the book is narrated by a different child - Finn, 2nd grade; Emma, 4th grade; Chess, 6th grade. Each character has a unique voice, and most of their contributions are age-appropriate. The characters'… Continue reading Review – The Strangers (Greystone Secrets, #1)
Book cover: First Frost First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen My rating: 4 of 5 starsThis is a sequel to Sarah Addison Allen's previous book, Garden Spells. It's quite a lovely read. Some of the unresolved plot points from Garden Spells carry over into this one, namely the parental issues of the main characters, Claire… Continue reading Review: First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen
The Aeronaut's Windlass / Cinder Spires, Book One. I read this book initially in March, and I came back to it again before reviewing it, because honestly, I wasn't sure about it. Now, having read it again, I find myself liking it more and more. Jim Butcher is skilled at creating worlds, and this one… Continue reading Review: The Aeronaut’s Windlass
Myrren's Gift, by Fiona McIntosh I do love high fantasy: princes, princesses, high dudgeon drama. I love it all. I love female protagonists who are strong, feisty, and plucky. I love main characters who go who struggle: who muddle through like the rest of us. I like scheming, and I love to hate the bad… Continue reading Review: Myrren’s Gift
On Friday, I had sinus surgery again, my third. So it turns out that if you have allergies, that causes inflammation, and your body responds to chronic inflammation by creating these polyps. Anyway, there was a walnut-sized polyp in one of my sinuses, and then another polyp was blocking the upper (ethmoid) sinus, and when… Continue reading post-sinus surgery
The hubs is not sentimental about stuff: his motto, like my mother, is "Get rid of it!" Even if something once had sentimental value to him, if it was in our storage shed, it got tossed or donated to Goodwill today.
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly. An interesting book. The main character, Andi, held my attention throughout. She's a teenager who watched her brother get murdered, and is going through the grieving process, with layered trauma. No one really understands her and helps her to feel normal, except her music teacher, who is a concentration camp survivor.… Continue reading Review: Revolution by Jennifer Donnely
I think Goodreads is a fine platform for book-geeks to enjoy each other's geekery. Their book reader ticker said that I read 33 books last year. This number, 33, seems a small number to me. That would be almost three books per month, which sounds about right, depending on how long the books are. I've… Continue reading My Year in Books 2015 via Goodreads
Land of the Burning Sands: The Griffin Mage Book 2 by Rachel Neumeier Like the first book, the writing for this book was a little hard to get into. The plot sort of moves a long slowly at the beginning, and more quickly at the middle until the end. The world-building, as in the first… Continue reading Review: Land of the Burning Sands
