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Bookworm 2016: Peak Book

Last year I made the error of kicking off the top-of-the-pops post with the second-best book of the year, leaving the site carrying the runner-up at the top of the page for a while. This year, I will not make the same mistake, and will merely mention, for example, Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, the utterly silly, […]

Bookworm 2016: The Interestings

It is always good when a good book series maintains the expected quality throughout its run, as was the case with this year’s seventh installment of Stross’ Laundry Files, Kloos’ continuing battle against the Lanky invaders, or Abercrombie’s foray into the short story world of First Law. Robert Jackson Bennett continued the Divine Cities series […]

Bookworm 2016: The Disses

Sitting down to recapitulate the year in books, I was honestly surprised to see how many I have read this year. Well, read or attempted to read, really, sometimes just flipping through an inane novella desperately attempting to be kooky and weird straight to the end to see if it gets better (it doesn’t), other times simply […]

Bookworm 2015: At the Pinnacle

I inadvertently lied a couple of posts back. I said no book from 2015 really blew my mind, and right after hitting “Publish” I started reading Adam Roberts’ The Thing Itself. The result? Mind: blown. Well, that may be a bit of hyperbole right there, but it is by far the best science fiction novel […]

Bookworm 2015: Running Up

Kelly Link can write the shit out of words. That is why, having read her first short story collection, I kept the next two squirreled away for those interminable nights when nothing in my to-read list looks just right. Well, as I was writing this package of reviews for last year, I hit just such […]

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