In the eighty reviews I have posted to this website, I have read and reviewed only one book that has garnered major pop culture attention, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. For some unknown reason, I have not gravitated towards those kind of books. However, I received...
Book Review 79: The Petyi Crisis by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
by MHill | Feb 20, 2016 | 2016 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Retrieval Artist Series
Miles Flint and Noelle DeRicci are back! I had to write that as my first sentence for this latest review in the Retrieval Artist Series by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. The previous two books in the series, A Murder of Clones and Search and Recovery, did not feature...
Book Review 76: Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
by MHill | Jan 23, 2016 | 2016 Book Reviews, Haruki Murakami
I finally heard of Haruki Muramaki when his latest novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years Pilgrimage, was released in the summer 2014. It was on the Books of the Nightstand podcast where several independent bookstores across the country were having Murakami...
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 68: Tower of Glass by Robert Silverberg
by MHill | Jul 17, 2015 | 2015 Book Reviews, Robert Silverberg 1967-1976
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...