Congratulations to all the winners! Gene Wolfe won the World Fantasy award in the best novel category for the third book in the Latro series, Soldier of Sidon. A list of the winners is available on the Science Fiction Awards Watch blog.

The Amber Spyglassby Philip Pullman560pp (Hardcover)My Rating: 7/10Amazon Rating: 4/5LibraryThing Rating: 4.17/5Goodreads Rating: 4.09/5 The Amber Spyglass is the third book in the His Dark Materials series. (I was going to say it was also the final book, but apparently Philip Pullman is writing a fourth book in the series called The Book of Dust.) While it was still a good book that I did not regret reading, I felt it was the weakest book in the series. There were […]

Since opinions differ on ratings and what exactly certain numbers mean, I thought I’d just write a summary of how I see it. My ratings system is based on a 1 – 10 scale. Basically, anything on the low end (1 – 4) is bad, in the middle (5-6) is ok, and on the high end (7 – 10) is good. The following is a more detailed explanation of the specific ratings: 10 – Outstanding. A book that stuck with […]

I’m sorry to say I have no new reviews right now. I’m still reading the third book in the His Dark Materials trilogy, The Amber Spyglass. After that, I plan to read Making Money, the newest Discworld book by Terry Pratchett, followed by Lords of Rainbow by Vera Nezarian. I might be a bit slow with reading for the near future, though, since I am currently spending a lot of my time in the evenings looking for work. This past […]

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Palby Christopher Moore464pp (Paperback)My Rating: 7.5/10Amazon Rating: 4.5/5LibraryThing Rating: 4.39/5Goodreads Rating: 4.39/5 Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore is a humorous account of the life of Christ told from the perspective of an old friend of his. It starts with his life as a young boy and ends with the crucifixion and primarily focuses on the “missing” years that are absent from the gospels in the […]

The Subtle Knifeby Philip Pullman368pp (Hardcover)My Rating: 7.5/10Amazon Rating: 3/5LibraryThing Rating: 4.23/5Goodreads Rating: 4.18/5 The Subtle Knife is the second book in the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman and continues the story begun in The Golden Compass. The series is considered young adult fantasy, although it certainly has some themes that would be better appreciated and understood by adult readers. While The Golden Compass was interesting and worth reading, I did not find it to be anything exceptional, […]