Thursday, April 17, 2025

Thursday, April 10, 2025

Star Wars: The High Republic - Tears of the Nameless by George Mann


 The end is finally in sight for the High Republic books. Only four more after this one! Tears of the Nameless was one of the better ones, maybe because now things are moving towards a conclusion. B+

Monday, March 17, 2025

Thursday, February 27, 2025

Cujo by Stephen King

 


Ehhh - Cujo doesn't need to be a full length novel. If it were maybe half the length it could have been great... but do we need the whole backstory about the husband's marketing business and why they might go under or the subplot about the marriage of Cujo's owners. No, we didn't. C+


Friday, February 14, 2025

Horror # 20- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving


 Someday I'll get through this horror list. Someday... Luckily this entry is just a short story and was pretty entertaining and a quick read. A-

Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer


I wasn't expecting a fourth book to show up for the Southern Reach series. I felt obligated to read it. To my surprise it is a good deal longer than the previous books. It was okay. The story was kind of a prequel to the previous novels and didn't really add much overall. At several points it all stops making sense, but then that's kind of the point of Area X, I suppose. B-

Friday, January 31, 2025

James by Percival Everett


Once James started to really diverge from the original narrative of Huck Finn I think it just got better. Overall I enjoyed it. A-