Book Review: Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman
Although Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys is set in the same world as his American Gods and shares a common (minor) character, that’s about as...
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Book Review: I Am Not a Serial Killer, by Dan Wells
At first, the protagonist in Dan Wells’ I Am Not a Serial Killer feels like a young-adult version of Dexter (Jeff Lindsay’s surprisingly...
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Book Review: Redshirts, by John Scalzi
John Scalzi’s Redshirts starts as a Star Trek parody and ends as something deeper. His protagonists are five new crew members of the...
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Book Review: Wolves of the Calla, by Stephen King
At this point, I have a good idea what I’m getting into when I pick up one of Stephen King’s Dark Tower novels. The story will wander. It...
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Book Review: Wool - Omnibus Edition, by Hugh Howey
Self-publishing still gets a bad rap. Sometimes it’s justified: with a lower barrier to entry, platforms like Kindle Direct Publishing...
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Book Review: The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman’s made a living by playing with our notions of how things work. In American Gods, he asked what would happen if the people of...
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Book Review: The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood, is a masterclass in worldbuilding. Most authors would have detailed the story’s premise—or at...
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Book Review: The Revenant, by Michael Punke
Michael Punke’s The Revenant is brutal, gripping, and perhaps too historically accurate for its own good. The story starts with a...
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Book Review: Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon
Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon, is (far) more than just A Connecticut Yankee in King Author’s Court plus Scots and sex. But there’s some...
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Book Review: Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life is more an example of good writing than a manual for how to produce it....
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Book Review: Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman
In Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere, Richard Mayhew is yanked out of his ordinary London existence when he finds a girl bleeding in the streets....
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Book Review: The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
On the surface, Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose looks like Sherlock Holmes in a 14th-century Italian abbey. There’s a murder mystery;...
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