The Main In The Brown Suit
female-author
The Murder At The Vicarage
Sense And Sensibility
In an uncontroversial opinion, I think Jane Austen is quite good.
The Wind Knows My Name
I think Isabelle Allende is a Very Good writer, deep and heartfelt, and the book a topical and compelling story of immigration and the toll it takes, especially at the US border. I don’t think she is a Great writer,...
The Books Of Jacob
A favorite trope of mine is the sprawling geneological novel, painting a picture of a culture and its transformation over time through the story of a particular family throughout several generations - it is a trope I don’t have many...
Teaching To Transgress
As a not-teacher who has lived most of his life outside the humanities academy, this book is perhaps not super relevant - but it’s good. I enjoyed reading about and thinking about what goes into education and Freeing the Mind,...
His Majesty's Dragon
One of my favorite book’s growing up was My Father’s Dragon, which I remember little about now - but did bias me pretty strongly against His Majesty’s Dragon. I am an adult now! This looked like the lowest form of...
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
I think my threshold for good fantasy varies wildly from book to book, season to season. At times it is a comfort food, and seeking comfort and ease I find it and look no further - while at times I...
System Collapse
Murderbot continues to be a delight, maybe a bit more on the Real side with this one but still at the core the classic Murderbot running around, saving lives, struggling with Emotions, getting shot a few times. While quite enjoyable,...
A City On Mars
Life on Mars is great edutainment, clearly the work of people who are passionate about research, space, and space research. It is full of fun anecdotes and what seems like a difficult to assail argument that space colonization is not...