Books
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In the world of films based on books, I’ve always been the type to prefer to read the book first, but life doesn’t always give me the chance, especially when there are so many books out there that I’m trying to read. For the most part, though, I’m able to at least pick up the…
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PSA: If the first chapter of your book includes a moment where your heroine complains about the burden of being so damned attractive that it makes it hard for people to take her seriously, I am not going to like your main character. The same goes if you have your character spend a significant amount…
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It looks like my buddy Luther M. Siler is offering his book, Searching for Malumba, for free today and tomorrow, and I highly recommend taking advantage of this opportunity. I had the distinct privilege of reading a beta copy of this collection of blog posts about the crazy world of teaching, and I thoroughly enjoyed…
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So, I finished my first book of the year the other day (yes, technically, it’s a novella, but the copy I have has 200+ pages, so it counts): The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells. It is my first H.G. Wells book and hopefully not my last. The man is a sci-fi treasure, and it’s a…
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Anyone who has been following me for a while is likely to know of one particular goal I have every year that I consistently fail to accomplish: one of these day, I will reach my goal of reading 100 books in a year. Last year was again not one of those years. I didn’t even…
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“Barr smiled sunnily. Most young men did, when first exposed to Sumac. Most all men did, actually. The tears came later.” “The Sharing Knife Volume Four: Horizon” by Lois McMaster Bujold. I have a love-hate relationship with the review text on the back of a book more often than not. Either I feel that it’s…
L.S. Engler 