"History is only a story, told by those with power to justify why they have it. The truth does not bend to power's whims." These words came near the end of The Truth of the Aleke by Moses Ose Utomi. It is the follow-up novella to the excellent The Lies of the Ajungo I...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 103: Queen of Angels by Greg Bear
by MHill | Apr 26, 2022 | 2022 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorites, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Rereading Series, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
Queen of Angels by Greg Bear has been a book I've wanted to read for years. I've seen it at used bookstores and bought it several times intending to read the book but never get around to it until recently. Queen of Angels is an ambitious, thought-provoking...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 61: Binti: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor
by MHill | Oct 31, 2020 | 2020 Book Reviews, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
How do you as reader feel after reading the last book in a trilogy? Do you wish you can continue in that fictional world? Are you glad it's over? Or are you still trying to process what you read? I will admit that last question in the previous paragraph is where I'm...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 54: Beton Rouge by Simone Buchholz
by MHill | Aug 22, 2020 | 2020 Book Reviews, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
Beton Rouge by Simone Buchholz is my second read for Women In Translation Month 2020. I read the first Chastity Riley novel translated into English, Blue Night, last year and connected with the protagonist. Chastity Riley is a prosecutor in Hamburg and along with her...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 27: Map of Shadows by J.F. Penn
by MHill | Oct 21, 2019 | 2019 Book Reviews, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
J.F. Penn wrote a fast-paced, dark fantasy thriller about a young woman named Sienna that belongs to a family of mapmakers and their connection to another world called the Borderlands. Map of Shadows is the first book of the trilogy and does a solid job of setting...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 24: How The Light Gets In by Louise Penny
by MHill | Sep 20, 2019 | 2019 Book Reviews, Louise Penny Gamache Novels, Marion's Favorite Books, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
One of the great joys of reading is coming upon a series that you would have never read at first glance. This has happened to me with the Inspector Gamache Series by Louise Penny. I'm a not a big mystery or crime fiction reader. However, I read The Long Way Home two...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 21: Blue Night by Simone Buchholz
by MHill | Aug 12, 2019 | 2019 Book Reviews, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
Last year, I began attempting to read fiction beyond America. I believe it's important and necessary to read novels from around the world to widen my view of how stories are told. I read two novels from France...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 11: The Knight by Gene Wolfe
by MHill | May 5, 2019 | 2019 Book Reviews, Gene Wolfe, Marion's Favorite Duologies, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
Legendary author science-fiction and fantasy author Gene Wolfe died on April 14th at the age 87. Wolfe created a body of work over five decades that placed him at the top of the genre and considered by many to be...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 9: Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay
by MHill | Apr 13, 2019 | 2019 Book Reviews, Guy Gavriel Kay, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorite Duologies, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
Guy Gavriel Kay has become an author I look forward to reading. His brand of fantasy captured my attention in Ysabel, Children of Earth and Sky, and Sailing to Sarantium, the first book in Sarantine Mosaic...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 2: Let Me Be Frank With You by Richard Ford
by MHill | Jan 25, 2019 | 2019 Book Reviews, Frank Bascombe Series, Marion's Favorite Books, Richard Ford, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
I'm a reading completist. I did not realize completist was a word until I typed this review. I felt it's appropriate for my latest Wisdom From Kammbia review. In 2015, I read and wrote a review for The Sportswriter by Richard Ford, the first Frank Bascombe novel. I...