Hey everyone, it’s my first review for my first Cannonball Run! Please forgive me if this is a bit rough. I picked up a copy of You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlman at the library. It’s a tiny volume, just over a hundred pages long. The cover notes that it is “translated from the German”. I am always a bit torn reading books translated from another language – it makes me wonder what I am missing, and if I’m really getting what the author put […]
This series is so great, I can’t recommend it enough.
And the final Murderbot adventure is over. Well, not final, I guess, since there is going to be a Murderbot novel in 2020 (hooray!), but final FOR NOW. The initial arc of Murderbot becoming a person has concluded. We come full circle in Exit Strategy, with Murderbot traveling back to rescue Dr. Mensah, and teaming up with the initial group of humans from All Systems Red. Murderbot’s irrational grudge against Gurathin continues to give me life: “I don’t want to be a pet robot.” “I […]
A nice little Dresden Files snack.
I really like these story collections because I don’t have the patience to track them all down in their various anthologies. Extremely convenient, thumbs up. And to top it all off, I really enjoyed all the stories here. There were a couple in the last collection I was a little bored with, or that showed their age, etc. But they were all good here, entertaining and fit well into the larger Dresden Files universe. I especially liked that three of them took place after the […]
And so I have now given Brandon Sanderson three stars.
Well, I suppose it had to happen sometime. I’m rating a Brandon Sanderson book less than four stars. He’s written about five million of them, so statistically this was a very likely outcome, eventually. And now it has, and we can all move on with our lives. I really enjoyed the first two novellas in this series. The premise is great (a genius who has schizophrenia channels his illness into the creation of imaginary people who he calls aspects, all of whom are experts in […]