Inside GMT Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsWe begin in Jerusalem, where fights break out at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre over whether Orthodox or Catholic priests had priority for their rituals when both versions of the calculation of Easter fell on the same day in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The third Aubrey/Maturin novel takes does a good job getting the balls back in the air. We start with Aubrey temporarily in command of a frigate watching Toulon as part of the Mediterranean blockade. Ordered back to Gibraltar, on the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Book two of The Expanse has the same outline structure. Bad things happen, a man becomes very single-focused obsessed with finding a missing person, he runs into James Holden, mayhem ensues. Structurally, it is different. We do change viewpoint characters,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a book where the subtitle is accurate and sums up the book far better than the title ever could: “Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War”. This is also Robert Massie at his best. Typically, he[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This covers the second half of the initial anime season. (Or, much more properly, the anime covers this.) It retains the format of being smaller stories stitched together. The book gives them as chapters, but they are separate stories, connected[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second Star Trek: Picard novel is more successful as a story, but this is at the price of it being less successful as a prequel. For those who kept up with post-series novels over the last twenty years (I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second book of the Revolutions trilogy is a rarity for me. I actually read the first book early enough to be eagerly anticipating the release of the second. In general, it has lived up to the anticipation. It does[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The eighth Suzumiya book is structurally different from before. The series has been a combination of short story collections and novels. This time, we get two novellas. The first one circles back around to the start of the series and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second book of Spice and Wolf is also the second half of the first season/cour of the original anime adaptation (I haven’t seen the recent one yet), and again that follows this pretty closely. The central plot once again[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I never got to see all of it, but the 1992 PBS miniseries on The Prize was very good, and was part of what launched this book to superstar status. That, and coming out right after the First Gulf War[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…