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New Reviews: Three of them
August 31, 2005 (10:39 PM) ( link ) ADDED reviews of Michael Crichton's The Terminal Man, Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe, and Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife.
I've read a surprising number of really great books this year: Niffenegger's is just one example (though more discerning readers may disagree with my assessment). Within a week or so I should be posting up my top ten list; unlike this time last year, I'll actually have ten books, with several runner ups.
New Reviews: Three more of them; and 200 reviews total!
August 1, 2005 (8:19 PM) ( link ) ADDED reviews of Nick Hornby's About a Boy, Charles Palliser's The Quincunx, and Iain Pears's An Instance of the Fingerpost. Them's some good readings.
My review of An Instance of the Fingerpost is number 200. As a complete coincidence, it's also one of the few books I've given a 10--absolutely an amazing novel, though YMMV. I wish I knew what my 100th review was.
Gene Wolfe's The Knight is proceeding slowly, in typical Wolfe fashion. I doubt it'll ever get exciting, so the key is to resist continuing on to something like Jasper Fforde's fourth book, Something Rotten (which is sitting on my family room table---argh).
Eleven reviews to go, including three superb books, two very goods ones, two very good ones, two mediocre ones, and two terrible ones. Then I'll be caught up.
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