Peter David writes my very favorite Star Trek books. I discovered his work at some point in the ’90’s when I was still interested in attempting to read all the Star Trek novels related to The Next Generation. The lack of quality of most of the TNG ties-ins made it quite an effort, and then Peter David comes along. I don’t remember exactly which novel of his I read first, but I remember Imzadi being the point at which I decided to go from buying […]
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end
Soundtrack for today’s review: https://youtu.be/xGytDsqkQY8 Katie: Patty and her messages about books make me justifiably wary. I mean, that’s how we started down the Kristen Ashley road or the book where they played escape and evade as foreplay. (I now think of it as the raisin sex book because of Patty’s metaphor.) So when she sent me a message that she was sending me a book that was amusing and refreshing, you can imagine my terror. Patty: SUCH a drama queen. Katie: Honestly, this […]
The Repercussions of Drugging Unwitting Children (And Other Things)
This book was one of those that I liked, but I also didn’t much like it, or at least I didn’t really like or understand the characters in it. Yes, that’s it exactly. I didn’t understand a single one of the many characters in this book. And that’s not entirely my fault. In Commonwealth, one of the children of a blended family falls in love with a much older writer and ends up telling him stories about her childhood. And he ends up writing […]
It’s all about the Detectives
It’s been a while since I’ve checked in on the Dublin Murder Squad. One thing I like about Tana French is that she isn’t as prolific as many mystery writers are, making it fun to reacquaint oneself with the setting and some of the characters. I didn’t like the last book, The Secret Place, quite as much as earlier books, partly because the story was all about teenagers and that I found detective Antoinette Conway too angry and paranoid. I wasn’t sure what to expect […]