incunabular illumination

Carlo Rovelli picked a great title when he chose Reality is Not What it Seems for this follow up to his Seven Brief Lessons on Physics ,* w...

The Book of Illusions is a novel Paul Auster, published in 2002, and was apparently pretty well received at the time. I don't really fo...

Andy Weir, of The Martian fame, has revisited those roots for Project Hail Mary . The protagonist, Ryland Grace, has many of the same trait...

Sweeney On-the-Fringe is a short, sweet little novel by Dave Robinson , which states on the cover that it is "Based on the notes of Ow...

I'm pretty sure this book came from the book sale at my local library. It didn't seem like anyone had even opened it when I picked i...

That's Book Three: done and dusted . The Golden Enclaves is the third book in the Scholomance Trilogy by Naomi Novik, which I banged o...

Part two of the Scholomance Trilogy is called The Last Graduate . Naomi Novik is pretty well practiced at multi-novel story arcs, she has a ...

Sea of Tranquility was on the New York Times Bestseller List , according to the cover of this paperback I picked up at my library's boo...

On a recent visit to my local library's book sale shelf, I found what ends up being the third book in a trilogy, about young magicians...

This may be David Mitchell's second book. [I guess I could look that up... Yes, it is, published in 2001.] I don't recall if I read ...

At some point in February or March, I read River of Doubt , by Candice Millard , but I didn't get a chance to write about it. It was pro...

Wool is one of those books I had on a list somewhere, so that probably means I heard it was good at some point. Maybe Will told me about t...

Is this a re-read? Yes. This may be the fourth time I've read this... maybe? could be the fifth? The first time I was a teen; maybe 15 o...

'Read this book' or a version of that statement, is typically the last line in one of my book reviews for a book that I am recommend...

The Martian is Andy Weir's first book. Obviously this book made a big splash, especially when you consider that Weir self-published th...

David Wong is the pen name of Jason Pargin, who until somewhat recently was an editor of Cracked.com. Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits i...

This book was weeded from my local library, I assume because they had multiple copies when it first came out. This is the second book/first ...

First off, A Prince Without a Kingdom , is apparently book two (2!) sometimes called a sequel, as in intended to be read after the first bo...

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu was pretty popular when it came out in 2010 if I remember correctly. I add...

Sweet, sad, Silmarillion .   The Wikipedia entry refers to The Silmarillion as a mythopoetic collection of stories. I had to look that on...