Where do I come from is a deceiving question. It seems like there should be a straight-forward answer. For the siblings in C Pam Zhang's How Much of These Hills…
If J.D. Salinger Wrote This Book: He would've never published it.
Review of Where'd You Go Bernadette, by Maria Semple, along with suggestions on clothes and what to eat and drink while reading.
Synopsis: The Mafia, the nation of Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong, a cyborg, a skateboarding kourier, and a pizza-delivering hacker who is the greatest swordsman of the world team up to stop a communications monopolist from releasing a virus that affects people and computers.
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore was written by Robin Sloan and published in 2012.
Set in San Francisco, unemployed twenty-something, Clay Jannon, finds work in a mysterious bookstore that rarely sells books and checks out encrypted texts to its members. With the help of friends at Google and in the startup community, Clay tries to unravel the mystery of the bookstore using data visualizations, natural language processing, and crowdsourcing.
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House of Chains was written by Steven Erikson and published in 2002. Synopsis It's sort of like kids playing king of the hill, but in this case, the hill is…
Memories of Ice was written by Steven Erikson and published in 2001. Synopsis Back in Genabackis, the supergroup of Dujek, Whiskeyjack, Caladan Brood and Anomander Rake wage war against the…
If you've read the last two reviews (yes, I have a lot to catch up on), it would seem that I dislike the books I've read. Well, it's more a…
Man, I wanted to like this book. Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn Trilogy was a wonderfully unique fantasy series. The premise of The Alloy of Law is interesting. It takes place in…
If you're looking for an international, contemporary spy thriller, read about Edward Snowden. John le Carré's A Delicate Truth is a disjointed novel that fishes for relevancy by focusing on military…