The Blade Itself
I’m taking a break after Book 8 of The Wheel of Time and reading some other things. I’ve started Joe Abercrombie’s The Blade Itself. Thusfar it’s not growing on...
Category: Books
Book reviews and commentary
Home-grown Wheel of Time Encyclopedias
Thanks to all the spoilerific Wheel of Time wikis on the Internet, I have to keep my own encyclopedia as I go.
Raking Instead of Scrubbing
Rand raked for once! He didn't scrub!
Bad Character Habits in Wheel of Time
It's time for an intervention to stop the bad habits of characters in The Wheel of Time.
On The Fires of Heaven
I finally finished The Fires of Heaven, the fifth book in the Wheel of Time series. I say “finally” because, compared to the three Hunger Games book...
Hunger Games Descriptions
As I’m reading the Hunger Games trilogy (I’m on the last book now), I am trying to analyze why it is so popular and addictive. The story is okay, the characters...
Hunger Games Dialog Tags
One thing I forgot to mention about The Hunger Games: The dialog tags. It’s funny the things you notice when you’re an aspiring writer. Suzanne Collins uses the...
On The Hunger Games
I finally get around to reading Hunger Games. (See what I did there?) I think it’s not terrible. It’s a decent action adventure yarn, but it’s...
The Fires of Heaven, A Rant On Dense Characters
I’ve read ten chapters of The Fires of Heaven, the fifth book in the Wheel of Time series. In Robert Jordan’s world, ten chapters is about 205 pages...
On The Fifth Sorceress
I half-heartedly read the first five chapters of The Fifth Sorceress by Robert Newcomb (2002), knowing it had received generally unfavorable reviews from fans o...