The Recliner

Started 9/24/26 Finished 9/25/26 Here at the end of what is commonly called "The Sprawl Trilogy," author William Gibson wraps up the story he began in Neuromancer, giving us both closure on characters and answers to questions posed in the earlier books...…

Started 9/21/26, finished 9/24/26 While William Gibson’s first novel, Neuromancer, defined a new genre of science fiction, his second book, Count Zero, solidified his standing as an author.

Started 9/8/26 Finished 9/9/26 If you look at the start and finish dates above, you'll see I went through this quickly (and then sat on this review for a few days).

Started 9/1/26, finished 9/4/26 Family has always been a part of the Slow Horses universe.

Started 8/26/26, Finished 8/28/26 The third book of the Slow Horses series, Real Tigers finds our favorite ne’er do well secret agents getting into trouble in their usual non-secret ways.

Started 8/21, finished 8/25 Dead Lions is the second of Mick Herron’s Slow Horses series, the stories of a group of misfit British Secret Service agents in contemporary London.

Started 8/19/26, finished 8/21/26 This is the first review in a planned series covering all of William Gibson’s fiction.

My reading this past month has been very fragmented, and I blame Catherynne M.

Started August 11, 2026, finished August 15, 2026 Richard Helmling and I have been emailing each other for a year or so now, ever since I discovered his book Athena: Emergent and he gave me encouraging words about mine, The Immortal Remains.

(This was originally published on Big List Energy at Medium.com) I recently served on a jury for a murder trial.

Started 7/21/26, Finished 7/24/26 If I really enjoy a book, I’m likely to want to read it again, and Mick Herron’s espionage story Slow Horses has surfaced from the murky depths of my To Be Read pile for a fresh look, five years later.

Started 7/13/26, Finished 7/18/26 I have a lot of respect for Christopher Tolkien.

This is my memoir of serving on a jury in King County, Washington, in June and July 2026.

Read 7/4/26 - 7/9/26 As I’ve mentioned before, my family has been watching the excellent Poirot series on PBS over the last few months, and now and then I enjoy an episode so much I’m inspired to go read the original.

I’m a restless writer.

Read June 20 - July 1, 2026 I’d been looking forward to this, a history of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary (affectionally known as the OED), and was a little disappointed because I thought there should be more to it, but in the end figured a…

Read June 23-29, 2026 This is an old book, published in 1980, which I picked up for some historical research.

Read 5/31/26 - 6/14/26 I haven't had much interest in short stories, but I'm trying to change that as I work to increase the number of stories I read at one time.

Read May 22 - June 7, 2026 I've been cogitating for a couple of weeks on what to say about Alix Harrow's The Once and Future Witches.