Friday Finds

  Hosted by Should be Reading   Just two books added to my wish list this week. This upcoming release from Tor sounds promising. Awakenings by Edward Lazellari Cal MacDonnell is a happily married New York City cop with a loving family. Seth Raincrest is a washed-up photographer who has alienated even his closest friends. The two have nothing in common—except that they both suffer from retrograde amnesia. It’s as if they just...

Mini Reviews

With my kids home from school for the summer I've been hard pressed to find the time to sit down and write reviews so I decided to instead just jot down some of my thoughts about the books that I've recently read, before I forget them. The Crown Conspiracy by Michael Sullivan THEY KILLED THE KING. THEY PINNED IT ON TWO MEN. THEY CHOSE POORLY. Royce Melborn, a skilled thief, and his mercenary partner, Hadrian Blackwater make a profitable living...

The Magician King fan song

I haven't yet had a chance to read Lev Grossman's The Magician King (though I do have it waiting on my ereader) but I'm loving this song by Parry Gripp . Hopefully I'll understand the meaning behind the postcards better once I read the book. (Thanks to Books on the Nightstand for bringing my attention to the vid...

Are you Pro-Spoiler?

It's all over the news. Spoilers do not actually spoil stories, but, in fact, enhance them. At least, that is the verdict that two UC San Diego students, Nicholas Christenfeld and Jonathan Leavitt, came up with after conducting their study about the effect of spoilers on readers. According to experiments carried out by Christenfeld and Leavitt, those readers who had the endings revealed to them enjoyed their stories more then readers who were...

New SciFi & Fantasy Releases: Week of August 14

I present you with this week's new science fiction and fantasy releases, which I'm currently too tired to comment on (though it's a good kind of tired since I spent the day at the beach with my daughter). Though I do want to mention that two book which I have been hearing particularly good things about are Low Town by Daniel Polansky and The Urban Fantasy Anthology edited by Peter S. Beagle and Joe R. Lansdale. If you have read either one of these...