Book News and Reviews

Here is the next on my list of gift suggestions for the upcoming holidays.
Fantasy
For those friends and family members who would be more at home digging around in a dragon’s cave, these are my recommended reads:
- Hogfather or any other books by Terry Pratchett
I reviewed the Hogfather in a previous post.  This is a perfect book [...]

I’ll admit to not being the most consistent blogger in the world, but with the holidays coming up my mind has turned to books.  They are (usually) a cheap and interesting present that people will appreciate – even if they don’t read them, a book will make them look more learned when displayed on the [...]

Author: John Scalzi
Book: Old Man’s War
Genre: Sci Fi
Julia Rating: 10
Comments:
Old Man’s War by John Scalzi is a well written Sci Fi adventure that made me look at old people from a new angle. The idea behind it is, if you are old (75 years to be exact), what would you do to be young [...]

Author: Tim Scott
Book: Love in the Time of Fridges – A Sci-Fi Thriller (of sorts)
Genre: Sci Fi, Humor
Julia Rating: 10
Comments:
This book gets a 10 just for the title. Come on. Who could resist a book called Love in the Time of Fridges? The title is amazing.
I got this book from my awesome [...]

Author: Mur Lafferty
Book: Playing For Keeps
Genre: Fantasy
Julia Rating: 10
Comments: I may be a little biased on Playing for Keeps, since I follow Mur’s podcast, I Should Be Writing, so I really like Mur.  In fact, the podcast is the whole reason I read her book – that and her other book Tricks of the Podcasting [...]

Author: Charlaine Harris
Book: Dead Until Dark
Genre: Horror/Murder Mystery/Romance
Julia Rating: 10
Comments: Dead Until Dark is a cute and funny vampire romance/mystery.  I think it’s a little silly to call any vampire book “horror”, but from what I can tell, that’s how the bookstores classify it, so I put the mad combination up there in the [...]

Author: Carolyn Walker
Book: Deadly Harvest
Genre: Mystery/Murder Mystery
Julia Rating: 7
Comments: This is the story of a female police detective moving to a small town where “nothing ever happens”, only to find murder, deceit and deadly intentions.  At first, it reminded me of Hot Fuzz, with a hot-shot British cop moving to a tiny little town and [...]

I’m thinking of making October a month of Horror book reviews.  What do you all think of this and does anyone have any books they recommend/want me to review?  (Like have you seen a book and gone “I don’t know”?  I’ll take the risk for you.)

Book: Darwin’s Children
Author: Greg Bear
Genre: Sci Fi
Julia Rating: 8
Comments: Darwin’s Children is a Science Fiction book about evolution. When I say Science Fiction I mean that there is an educated human being writing it who is indeed very into the science of the whole situation.  The only thing I did not like about this book [...]

Book: If I Were You
Author: L. Ron Hubbard
Genre: Fantasy
Julia Rating: 10
Comments: This is a fun book that contains two shorts: If I Were You and The Last Drop, both stories published in pulp magazines during that era. 
The first story, If I Were You, is about a dwarf who works at a circus.  An old man [...]