Wow, this book. There are a few technical elements that initially justified me wanting to leave off the fifth star, but the sheer audacity of the story and the fact that I cannot stop thinking about it a month later make Seveneves one of my favorite books of the year, and certainly the most … [Read more]
Recent Reviews
Historical Romance with Strong Women (and a Couple of Guys)
This is a previous review updated with the next book in the series... Lady Be Good Meredith Duran writes very strong, character driven historical romance, but Lady Be Good never quite grabbed me. It was as accomplished as readers have come to expect from Duran and involving at the time, but I … [Read more]
Ignore the Title, Enjoy the Contemporary Romance
Sex, Straight Up A couple of weeks ago, I snapped this up during the Harlequin sale on Amazon. Ignore the title, it's a sweet romance that masquerades as something spicy when it's really just shorthand for a romance that starts with physical intimacy and works backward to an emotional … [Read more]
Who knew a book about fertilizer could be so interesting?
After reading and enjoying Hager's Demon Under the Microscope, I was curious about his other work. The Alchemy of Air is about how we made the earth sustain more than 4 billion people by taking nitrogen out of the air and turning it into fertilizer. At the turn of the 20th century, mass … [Read more]