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This is the fourth title in Isaac Asimov‘s extended Foundation series, for those keeping score. I’m trying to work my way through all 15 books in the full series chronologically, at least based on the storyline. Plot Summary This plot … Continue reading
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I’ve been on an Isaac Asimov kick recently. I’m currently working my way through the extended Foundation series, which includes eight books prior to Prelude to Foundation (1988), starting with The Complete Robot (1982). My brain’s been inundated with robots—the … Continue reading
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This book was an alternate in our Siblings’ Book Club last year, and I try to read everything on our lists. Agatha Christie is always a welcome addition to our annual list-of-ten, and this one was enjoyable yet forgettable—which is … Continue reading
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This was our fourth read in this year’s twelve-book Siblings’ Book Club list. I genuinely and thoroughly hated it. In years past, we’ve read some other wonderfully entertaining Orson Scott Card books together. We read Ender’s Game in 2018 and … Continue reading
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Getting Out of the Box I would assume that very few people have gone out to purchase this book on their own. Instead, like in my case, it was assigned to them for reading as part of a course, a … Continue reading
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‘Tis the season for blasts from the past, apparently. It’s normally uncommon for me to read books multiple times, but recently I’ve had a string of them—Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet and the Glady’s Aylward biography, These Are My People to name … Continue reading
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It has been a few months since I tried reading an Alistair MacLean novel. The last one I finished was the disappointing Goodbye, California (1978). I expounded on that book enough in its own review, so I’ll just say by … Continue reading
This was a completely random find for my family. We had just finished A Series of Unfortunate Events and were looking for an audio book to tide us through a trip. I found this in the children’s section of the … Continue reading
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If you’ve never heard of The Princess Bride, then you’re probably either a four-year-old non-English-speaker or a member of the Taliban. In either case, I’m surprised you’re reading this book review! “Classic” cannot begin to describe William Goldman‘s fantasy tale … Continue reading
The armor kept our vitals, the Spirit kept our soul. (11) Epic poetry—not really my genre, though my experience with it has been mere fits and starts with such masterpieces as Paradise Lost, The Iliad, and even Shakespeare. While Due … Continue reading
