I'm not in the mood for this. I may come back to another time (particulalry if future books in series sound like get better). I went wandering about the blogosphere and reviews. Found posts and comments from the author that persistently spoke of main character as the "Narrator," an inept one wi...
Too Like the Lightning is Ada Palmer’s fiction debut, and it is part one of at least a two part series. (I wasn’t warned about this, and I kind of wish I had been. My expectations are different when reading a story that won’t be finished for another book.) And, I liked this book. I think. Mostly. It...
In every presidential election I’ve been eligible to vote in, there is a running sort-of joke that, if the other guys wins, voters will move to Canada. The implication is that, if the other guy wins, things will be so messed up in this country that it isn’t even worth sticking around for the next el...