Ryan

As long-time readers of my blog know, I’m absolutely terrible at keeping up with pretty much any sort of media, from books to movies to television. The Chronicles of Gensokai is yet another example of a series that has languished on my kindle since (checks notes) 2019. I now

Last weekend I finished Project Hail Mary, and I’m just going to go ahead and say that I really, really liked it. Now that I’ve been sitting with it for a few days, I’m ready to claim that I like it more than The Martian, also by

Sometimes, I understand why so many writers think of the act of writing as a magical process. In the chapter I was editing this morning, I had a note to add a detail that would play an important role later in the story. It wasn’t much. Putting the detail

I tend not to write reviews about stories that didn’t work for me. But I wanted to write a review about this story, because even though I ended up not liking it that much overall, there was a lot about it I loved. The Long Way to a Small,

2021 was a great year for reading! According to my Goodreads profile, I read 24,008 pages in 78 books. The number is probably a bit low, as I don’t record quite everything I read in Goodreads, but it’s pretty close. Looking through my reading last year, one

WARNING: Spoilers for A Sword Named Vengeance below!YOU'VE BEEN WARNED! The train car wobbled, bodies tilting left and right in unison, as the monstrous engine pulled them away from the city. Tomas opened his window and leaned out as the train traveled along a long bend. The engine came

About a week ago I finished Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo. It's the second book of a duology that starts what Six of Crows began, and I considered it a stunning triumph. One aspect that fascinates me about Crooked Kingdom is how similar to and how different it is from

This past weekend I had the pleasure of beginning Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, of The Martian fame. I’m not quite halfway through the book, but I can’t think of a time the first 100 pages of a book have propelled me forward so quickly. It’s

Top o' the morning, all! I hope this post finds you doing well, whenever you might stumble upon it. Here in the US, it's the Thanksgiving holiday. My daughter is home from school, and family is gathering for a pleasant and relaxing long weekend. Although I still woke up early