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...
Book Review 63: At Death’s Door by Astrid V. Tallaksen
by MHill | Apr 18, 2015 | 2015 Book Reviews
One of the best things about being a book review blogger is that you get a chance to read novels outside of your comfort zone. It is easy to read books by authors you love all the time and not make room for anything new or different. However, one of my personal...
Book Review 62: Duplicate Effort by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
by MHill | Mar 24, 2015 | 2015 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Retrieval Artist Series
There is always consequences when you try to take down the Moon's most powerful law firm. This is the dilemma that Retrieval Artist Miles Flint faces in Duplicate Effort: Book 7 of the Retrieval Artist Series by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Being a retrieval artist...
Book Review 61: Recovery Man by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
by MHill | Mar 14, 2015 | 2015 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Retrieval Artist Series
What if you found out that your child you thought was dead....might not be? And your ex-wife may have hidden this information from you? Those two questions creates the theme in Recovery Man (Book 6 of the Retrieval Artist Series) by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. For the...
Book Review 60: The Place of Voices by Lauren Lynch
by MHill | Feb 22, 2015 | 2015 Book Reviews
One of the benefits of doing reviews is that you get exposed to genres that you would not have considered reading in the past. In the past couple of years as a Book Review Blogger, I have decided to read young adult novels. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and Book 1 of...
Quotes 83
by MHill | Feb 21, 2015 | Quotes
“I’d like people to enjoy reading them. A readable novel is a gift to humanity. It provides an innocent occupation. Any novel takes people away from their troubles and the television set; it may even stir them to reflect about human life, characters, morals. So I...
Quotes 82
by MHill | Feb 21, 2015 | Quotes
“A novel without a story must work very hard in other ways to be worth reading, and indeed to be read. Some of today’s antistory novels are too deliberately arcane. I think story is essential to the survival of the novel. A novel may be “difficult” but its story can...