Another Agatha Christie novel – my daughter read this a few months and ruined it for me by telling me whodunnit, having assumed that I’d read it, but I never had. So, I wasn’t surprised by the ending but it was still interesting figuring out just how the murderer(s) managed it. I love an Agatha [...]

This is the second book in John Ringo’s Posleen War series. I am really enjoying this series – its a big, disaster story (although I am expecting mankind will beat the bad guys before the end!) Its not perfect, or at least not perfect for me. I had trouble with the large cast of characters; [...]

This is the original Stainless Steel Rat book and while it is a very enjoyable read, its really showing its age. The chauvinism of the main character is embarrassing at times, but nonetheless its a fun read. At just 185 pages, it doesn’t take long to skim through, so there isn’t much invested in it.

Full title: The matters at Mansfield, or, the Crawford affair This is the fourth book in the Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Mysteries, covering what happened to Elizabeth and Darcy after they got married. This entry incorporates characters from Mansfield Park, as all the books have ‘reused’ one of Jane Austen’s other novels. We find Elizabeth [...]

This is the final book in the series and I found it a little disappointing. The book itself was fine, and I enjoyed the writing, but as a series finale, I felt it didn’t tie up the threads well enough. Our major storyline is well resolved, with Frank managing to settle things with his girl [...]

I picked up this book on a whim; the cover made it look like one of those schlocky books whose writing isn’t good enough to hold my attention. But then I read the blurb on the back. Ohhhhhh…. I loves me a good galactic-war-defend-the-earth story. This is the first novel in the Posleen War series. [...]

1632 is a well known novel by historian and novelist Eric Flint. It is unusual in that I have listed it in more than one series; but the series seems to have taken on a life of its own and is being ‘written’ by more than one author, similar to Niven’s Man-Kzin War series. The [...]

Carrie Bebris is writing a series of books as ‘sequels’ to the original Jane Austen novel, Pride and Prejudice and I have read a few of them now. I really like them. Ms Bebris has captured the flavour of the original books extremely well; she is true to all the characters (although I’m horribly shocked [...]

This is the second book in Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Science in the Capital” and it carries on the story set in the first book well. Scene: Washington DC, and the effects of climate change are being seen – global warming is causing Arctic meltoffs which are doing strange things to the Gulf Stream, bringing on [...]

I picked this up because I thought I had never read it. Now I’m not sure. Certainly, it wasn’t entirely clear. I suspect that there is another Niven book with a similar scene in it – probably not hard. I enjoyed this , but I did feel that the ending set up too much for [...]