Monthly Archives: September 2008

The plot is the conveyor belt of your story. It trundles along at a constant speed, moving the scenes (all packed into cardboard boxes labelled “Chapter 1″ and so on) past the reader. A novel is at its best when … Continue reading →

A classic gothic doomed-romance novel. I can’t remember whether I was assigned to read it in high school or not, but have never held that against a book like some people can. C– and I watched the 1939 film version … Continue reading →

(A blackout followed by sheer laziness delayed the printing of several reviews. Oops.) Schroeder shows his wonderful world-building talents off in Ventus, his first novel. Less polished than the Virga books but still wildly inventive and fun.

…Unwed, …Unemployed, …Unappreciated, …Unreturnable, …Unpopular, and …Uneasy. Wow. Six books in seven days. Popcorn, mmm, greasy popcorn; shallow characters, ridiculous sex, idiot plots, jokes stretched thin over the length of the series (to be fair, that may be because I … Continue reading →