Book Review: Rachel Caine’s Ash and Quill
The Great Library of Alexandria has been hoarding all the knowledge of the world, and they’re pursuing Jess Brightwell and his fellow exiles who are held prisoner by the Burners.
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Book Review: Shelly Laurenston’s The Undoing
It’s the knowledge held by the very shy Jace that may be the world’s only hope as two enemies are forced to join forces.
Book Review: Rachel Caine’s Paper and Fire
Jess and his friends discover the lie and intend to save their friend. Only, they make one wrong move and are hunted by the Library’s deadly automata, forced to flee Alexandria.
Book Review: Rachel Caine’s Ink and Bone
History is re-written in a world where the Great Library of Alexandria survived to emerge ruthless and powerful with the personal ownership of books expressly forbidden.
Book Review: Robert Dourandish’s 22 Naked Bodies Inside
An anthology of 22 short stories revolving around emerging writers laying bare their inner conflicts to their readers.
Book Review: S.M. Stirling’s The Change: Tales of Downfall and Rebirth
An anthology of sixteen short stories in the Emberverse apocalyptic science fiction series and revolving around a world that fell apart technologically.
Book Review: Sir Terry Pratchett’s I Shall Wear Midnight
I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: the library I Shall Wear Midnightby Sir Terry PratchettIt is part of the , series and is a fantasy in Hardcover edition on September 28, 2010 and has 355 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Wee Free Men, The Color of Magic, A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith, The Light Fantastic, Sourcery, Eric, Equal Rites, Mort, The Shepherd’s Crown, Wyrd Sisters, Pyramids, Guards! Guards!, Moving Pictures, Small Gods, A Blink of the Screen, Reaper ManFourth in the Tiffany Aching fantasy series — and technically for middle-grade readers and I found this extremely appropriate for adults! — and thirty-eighth in the overall Discworld series. The series order can be confusing as there are a number of mini series within it. If you’re curious, there is a chronological listing of the Discworld books on my website. Tiffany is a young witch who has responsibility for the Chalk, its people, and the Nac Mac Feegles. The last and fifth book in the Tiffany […]
Book Review: Mercedes Lackey’s No True Way: All-New Tales of Valdemar
Eighth in the young adult anthology, Tales of Valdemar, an urban fantasy subseries for Valdemar with sixteen short stories by assorted authors.
Formatting Tip: Numerals
Numerals have rules. Lots of them. They have types and structure. Context, circumstance, and being written or spoken all play into this Formatting Tip from KD Did It.
Book Review: Alena Graedon’s The Word Exchange
I received this book for free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: NetGalley The Word Exchangeby Alena Graedon dystopian, science fiction that was published by Anchor Books on April 8, 2014 and has 384 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon An ARC I received through NetGalley set in a dystopian horror of a world, an age-old story of progress and greed with a “rags-to-riches” success story in which greed overcomes commonsense. My Take Wow. Just wow. This was/is terrifying. When you think of how ubiquitous the computer is in our world, how reliant we are upon it, upon the Internet. How much I rely upon it! The “progress” our world is making in conjoining human with machine — think of Google Glass! I’ve always been so impressed with how much people in the past could remember, could quote passages from memory. I wondered why we no longer did such a thing. A large part of it, I suspect, is that we have too many books in the world today. We read a book, and we’re done with it. We move on to the […]