Time for the new year! I'm sure I had some writing resolutions last year, but I don't remember what they were. I think something crazy like submit 100 stories, or something. If you hadn't noticed, I haven't been submitting many stories anymore. I got so tired of the long wait, that I pretty much will …
Claw of the Conciliator, by Gene Wolfe
After Name of the Wind, this book was like a cool glass of water the morning after a night out. In my review of Shadow of the Torturer, the first book in this series, I said that the main driver of wanting to read the other books was learning more about the world, not so …
Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss
I just finished this epic fantasy novel (on Audible) a few days ago, and am overall unimpressed and a bit irritated. Right from the start of the book I knew I was in trouble, when during an action sequence he describes a character falling by saying he 'began to fall' and what he saw on …
Shadow of the Torturer, by Gene Wolfe
I listened to this recently on Audible, and it was not what I expected. Though this is marketed as a sci-fi, the setting is really more of a medieval/fantasy type world. The prose is also very dramatic, dark and flowery, which seems more fit to a fantasy novel. The main character being a torturer who …
Flight of the Silvers
I just finished this novel by Daniel Price, and for the first time since my childhood, I listened to it on audiobook. I've been doing a lot of driving lately, so have picked up an Audible subscription. This book was very entertaining and gave me lots of ideas to steal. It begins with the end …
Jonas David 