Category: Book Review

Update of my review of The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas.

August 31, 2026 No Comments

I have just updated my original review of The Slap on Goodreads. I wanted to read The Slap after reading that it was written with

Review of Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

August 26, 2026 No Comments

Shroud is the second novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky that I have read. The other was Children of Time. Both had humans battling a non-human collective.

Review of All Systems Red by Martha Wells

December 9, 2024 1 Comment

Books by Martha Wells are consistently mentioned in social media science fiction groups as favourite reads, so I decided to read one of her novels

Review of War and Peace

November 22, 2024 No Comments

If ever there was an epic novel, War and Peace is that novel. Its 1440 pages cover 1805 to 1813, which encompasses the period leading

Review of The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch

August 15, 2024 No Comments

The Gone World is a science fiction novel that involves time travel—but not your run-of-the-mill ordinary time travel. The prologue tells readers they are in

Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood

August 9, 2024 No Comments

Cat’s Eye is a novel about a successful artist, Elaine Risley. She has returned to Toronto, where she grew up, for a retrospective exhibition of

Review of Autonomous by Annalee Newitz

July 18, 2024 No Comments

Autonomous is set in 2144 in a divided world where the rich have access to wonderous drugs, while the poor can’t afford expensive health care.

Review of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

June 20, 2024 No Comments

Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1818 and revised it for an 1831 edition. This review is of the 1818 edition, curiously labelled as an uncensored

Review of The Redemption of Time by Baoshu (the fourth book in the Three-Body Problem series).

June 3, 2024 No Comments

The Redemption of Time is an extension of the Remembrance of Earth’s Past (Three-Body Problem) trilogy by Cixin Liu. It started as fanfiction by author

Review of Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell

May 23, 2024 No Comments

Homage to Catalonia is the story of George Orwell’s involvement in the Spanish Civil War. He originally went to Spain to write about the war.