Welcome to the Review Zone!
Here you can find my growing collection of book reviews. I read across all genres: from historical fiction to biography to science fiction to essays and poetry. I hope you’ll find them useful as you search for your next bedside companion, or if you just want a different take on a book you know.
Latest from the Blog
The Collapsing Empire, by John Scalzi (LA Quick Check)
The Collapsing Empire, by John Scalzi — The first of a trilogy. This was fun. Scalzi is another writer that makes use of glibness, to amusing effect. What differentiates him from a Terry Pratchett is that the central drama is not lost in the hilarity. He accomplishes this through unmitigated suspense scenes (basically, knowing when …
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Sapiens
I’m a big fan of thinking from scratch. Who here knows Renee Descartes? This philosopher, not wanting any assumptions whatsoever to color his basic understanding of the world, rejected everything he thought he knew, everything that was not necessary to make his experience as it was. That is how he came up with “Cogito ergo …
Going Postal, by Terry Pratchett (LA Quick Check)
This book was really cute. It was my first Terry Pratchett, and I see how he managed to make a name for himself. His voice invokes the sheer creativity and bizarre thought patterns of Douglas Adams and Daniel Handler (a.k.a Lemony Snicket). The book is number 33 in the Discworld series, which I could tell …
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