Regarding Ducks and Universes, by Neve Maslakovic
How could I not read this book, with a title and cover like that? Impossible. It also helps that the book is a bit of a sci-fi romp, a biiiiit like Shades of Grey or The Android’s Dream with the science and the touch of satire and the all-around amusement the author obviously has with … Read more
Behemoth, by Scott Westerfeld
I would like to thank my connections at the Twinsburg Public Library for letting me check this book out while I was hanging out at my parents’ house for Thanksgiving. This is one of those books that I can’t find in Jacksonville, and I really wanted to read it, so it worked out quite well! … Read more
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, by Michael Chabon (3 December — 15 December)
Criminy, this was a hefty book. Not really in length, though 400 pages is nothing to sneeze at, but more in that there was a lot of stuff happening all at once! Meyer Landsman (or just Landsman, really) is our protagonist, and he starts the story off by being called out of his fleabag hotel … Read more
Leviathan, by Scott Westerfeld (14 November — 15 November)
Um. I loved this book. A lot. I really didn’t expect to. I mean, I read Westerfeld’s Uglies series, and I thought it was pretty okay — entertaining, adventurous, and the like — but this is some seriously excellent stuff! Maybe I forgot to tell myself that I love steampunk, I don’t know. Leviathan starts … Read more
The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde (28 August − 1 September)
The premise behind this book is an alternate universe in which weird things happen regularly − time gets out of joint, extinct animals can be cloned, religious fighting is replaced by “Who was the real Shakespeare” fighting. As in this universe, the government has a lot of bureaus to control its constituents, among these SpecOps … Read more
