The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams (11 August)
I read this series of books for the first time in my senior year of high school (about five and a half years ago), after meeting a person who carried a towel around with him and asking him just why that was. He explained it was a Hitchhiker’s Guide thing, to which I said, approximately, … Read more
The Android’s Dream, by John Scalzi (23 July — 25 July)
So, remember when I said that I’d never experienced a story/cover mismatch that bothered me? Well, now I have, and this is it. The Android’s Dream cover looks like this, and there are absolutely no androids in the novel! I was expecting androids, people. But that’s not to say that this wasn’t an excellent book, … Read more
Zoe’s Tale, by John Scalzi (5 July — 6 July)
I didn’t intend to re-read this book so soon… but as mentioned in my last post, I was on vacation and ran out of books! I had brought this book just for Scott to read, which he did and of course he loved it, but when our plane got held up in a taxi line … Read more
Agent to the Stars, by John Scalzi (18 May — 19 May)
I think I’ve mentioned before that I rather like John Scalzi’s work, from his Old Man’s War series to his wonderful blog. So when I saw this book, his first (but not first published) novel, for 25 cents at a street fair, well, I couldn’t help but purchase it. And Zoe’s Tale, for another quarter. … Read more
The Last Colony, by John Scalzi (19 March — 20 March)
Another good book! Hooray! This is the last book for me (but not the actual last book) of the Old Man’s War series. I started with the previously linked book and then went back to the beginning to see what I’d missed. A lot, apparently. Anyway, this book tells the last story of the original … Read more
The Ghost Brigades, by John Scalzi (6 March — 8 March)
I finished up this book really early this morning (really, how does one wake up at 7:30 EDT on the first day of Daylight Savings when she doesn’t usually wake up until 8 or 9 in the first place?), and I must say that I was pretty much ready to move on once I did. … Read more
Children of God, by Mary Doria Russell (2 February — 5 February)
Children of God is the follow-up to Russell’s The Sparrow, one of my favorite books of last year and all time. It picks up shortly after the last book left off, with Emilio Sandoz still recovering from what he believes God did to him and trying to reconcile that with his life on Earth, where … Read more
Zoe’s Tale, by John Scalzi (7 December — 11 December)
I’d seen this book making its way around the various blogs I read, and everyone seemed to like it, so I picked it up from the library. It’s not quite what I was expecting, but it was definitely good. This is a book in Scalzi’s Old Man’s War series, but I haven’t read those so … Read more
The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell (9 September − 13 September)
Read this book. Seriously. The Sparrow mostly follows the story of Emilio Sandoz, a Jesuit priest who, through coincidences (or God’s work?) ends up on a mission to a just-discovered planet near Alpha Centauri. The book follows two timelines, one starting when Sandoz returns to Earth, as the last surviving member of the crew, several … Read more
