Weasel Words

So I've been a big fan of Daniel Abraham.

So Last Exit is not in any way related to the Craft novels.

All right, so you remember the Craft Sequence, right?

So this is a trilogy of sorts from Kay, set in the not-Mediterranean of his Sarantium world, and I think it's for the best that he returned to it.

All right, I'm way behind, and not going to catch up in one shot.

So I use this booklog for two purposes: Recording my books, and learning new programming technologies.

It's pretty obvious that I've let this backlog get out of hand; I've still got more books to go, but let's thin this out with quick hits on some books about which I don't have a whole lot to say.

Connie Willis' The Road to Roswell reads like a Connie Willis novel from the '90s -- which is bad in this case, as it's allegedly set in the present day.

All right, so let's talk about Brandon Sanderson.

I'm obviously writing this up late, but I did read the Hugo nominees in 2024, so let's talk about them, starting at the bottom of my ballot and working up to the top to my favorite (which was also the award winner).

All right, obviously I've fallen way behind on my booklogging, but here's my chance to begin catching up.

So a thing I've enjoyed doing the last few years is reading all the Hugo novel nominees; I often feel like I'm not as connected to the wider field of SF/fantasy as I used to be, and reading the award nominees at least helps me understand where the genre (…

Back when I was a kid haunting the aisles of Waldenbooks, there were just absolute piles of licensed IP books -- Star Trek, which I bought and read because I loved Star Trek; but also other ones that I didn't know anything about, like the Forgotten Realms…

Given how much I just finished griping about the Cosmere, you might have expected that I'd also be annoyed with Brandon Sanderson's Tress of the Emerald Sea.

Brandon Sanderson's The Lost Metal finishes up his Cowboy Mistborn trilogy, seven years after the last installment.

So I originally read Steven Brust and Emma Bull's Freedom & Necessity back when it came out in the '90s, but inspired by Dracula Daily, Kate Nepveu organized a read-along-with-the-date group read, and so what the hell, I can re-read a book every quarter c…

Nicola Griffith's Ammonite certainly wins the award for the book I took longest to read after buying.

N.K.

So you'll recall that on a short domestic flight in September, I'd read a Courtney Milan novel and found it to be ideal airplane reading.

So as I started Matthew Gabriele and David M.

So I'm slightly behind on my booklog (this entry is backdated by about two months), and I'm afraid I'm going to have to do some catchup posts.

Becky Chambers' A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is, unfortunately, something of a miss for me.

So when I read The Governess Affair, I remarked that I didn't really care about the next-gen characters in the coda; but I went ahead and read Courtney Milan's The Duchess War anyway, and it turns out that those characters are actually plenty interesting…

Robert Jackson Bennett's Locklands is the conclusion of his Founders Trilogy, which started with Foundryside.

Tasha Suri's Empire of Sand and Realm of Ash are a duology that feels like a mashup of S.A.