"Your To Be Read list is not finite. It will always grow. Just enjoy the things that you want to read and don’t obsess with trying to read everything on that list."
Book Review 72: A Murder of Clones by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
by MHill | Oct 12, 2015 | 2015 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Retrieval Artist Series
How would you feel as a reader about the direction of a series when the author introduces a brand new character? This is the question that Kristine Kathryn Rusch presents in the third book of the Anniversary Day Saga of the Retrieval Artist Series. I have read and...
Book Review 71: Blowback by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
by MHill | Sep 17, 2015 | 2015 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Retrieval Artist Series
Blowback is Book 2 of the Anniversary Day Saga by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. This novel continues into the exploration of the Moon's Anniversary Day attacks that happened in Book 1 of the saga. As a result of the attacks, Moon's Chief Security Officer Noelle DeRicci is...
Book Review 70: For Love or Money by Susan Kaye Quinn
by MHill | Aug 18, 2015 | 2015 Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Writing and Publishing Resources
"Writing challenges me to discover who I am. Publishing challenges me to remember it." "You have to work like crazy, be smart, somehow invest every particle of emotion into the book itself, but then fling it out in the world and be ruthlessly pragmatic about how to...
Book Review 69: Anniversary Day by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
by MHill | Aug 16, 2015 | 2015 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Retrieval Artist Series
I'm coming up on seventy posted reviews for this website and I've written many other reviews on various book social websites like Goodreads, Booklikes, and such. I have noticed there are some books you read and review because of their importance to the literary...
Book Review 68: Tower of Glass by Robert Silverberg
by MHill | Jul 17, 2015 | 2015 Book Reviews, Wisdom From Kammbia Column, Wisdom From Kammbia Novella Review
I'm continuing my summer reading of Robert Silverberg novels from the most prolific period of his career, 1967-1976. I reviewed A Time of Changes previously and now it's time for Tower of Glass. Simeon Krug, inventor and entrepreneur, is obsessed in getting a tower...
Book Review 67: A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg
by MHill | Jun 28, 2015 | 2015 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books
What is the strength or conviction of someone's beliefs unless they are tested by temptation? The Nebula Award winning novel A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg attempts to answer the aforementioned question. Prince Kinnall from the planet Velada Borthan tells his...
Book Review 66: Oracle Night by Paul Auster
by MHill | Jun 20, 2015 | 2015 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Paul Auster
Paul Auster is one of the most interesting authors we have in contemporary fiction. I have read Leviathan and the groundbreaking New York Trilogy over the years. When I saw Oracle Night at the used bookstore recently, I decided to read and review it. Oracle Night is...
Book Review 65: The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
by MHill | Jun 4, 2015 | 2015 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorites, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
The Sportswriter by Richard Ford chronicles an Easter Weekend in the life of Frank Bascombe, a failed novelist turned sportswriter. Ford's breakout third novel grapples with the themes of grief, a failed career, and unhealthy relationships. Bascombe's story is told...
Book Review 64: The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
by MHill | May 12, 2015 | 2015 Book Reviews
One of the most surprising elements in being a book review blogger is how you can choose some books to review and how some books can choose you to review them. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro became the latter instead of the former for me. I recently heard an...