This latest installment in the Retrieval Artist Series by Kristine Kathryn Rusch focuses on different characters outside of the main protagonists, Retrieval Artist Miles Flint and the Moon's Chief Security Officer, Noelle DeRicci. In her author's note, Rusch writes...
Book Review 77: Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg
by MHill | Feb 1, 2016 | 2016 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Robert Silverberg 1967-1976
You would think that religious themes in science fiction could not mix together. However, there is a long history of science fiction (and fantasy) writers that have included religious themes in their work. Gene Wolfe did with his Solar Cycle Series (Book of The New...
Book Review 75: The Wooden Sea by Jonathan Carroll
by MHill | Jan 2, 2016 | 2015 Book Reviews, Jonathan Carroll, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorites, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
I've spent the last month of 2015 reading three novels by Jonathan Carroll. The Wooden Sea is the third of the Carroll novels I've read. You can look at the reviews of the other two Carroll novels: White Apples and Glass Soup here. I will admit after reading these...
Book Review 74: Glass Soup by Jonathan Carroll
by MHill | Dec 20, 2015 | 2015 Book Reviews, Jonathan Carroll, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorite Duologies, Marion's Favorites, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
I mentioned in my previous review that I have spent the last month of year reading three novels by Jonathan Carroll. Glass Soup is the second of the Carroll novels and I will be posting a review on The Wooden Sea by the end of the year. These Carroll novels have given...
Book Review 73: White Apples by Jonathan Carroll
by MHill | Dec 13, 2015 | 2015 Book Reviews, Jonathan Carroll, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorite Duologies, Marion's Favorites, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
I have spent the last several weeks reading three novels from Jonathan Carroll. This review of White Apples is the first of the Carroll novels I've read. I had never heard of Jonathan Carroll before reading this post from Neil Gaiman about him. Besides Gaiman, he...
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 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 67: A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg
by MHill | Jun 28, 2015 | 2015 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Robert Silverberg 1967-1976
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...