Tag: Review
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Playing at Teatime
Last night as my daughter and I were playing a game and trying out a new tea, I jokingly suggested that when she goes off to college, I should send her a tea every month. Mama’s tea of the month club! Her eyes lit up. “You know what we should do? We should try out…
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Curmudgeon Review: Greek Isles
Written by Sanford Begley I love Greek food and have been searching for a good Greek restaurant locally for a long time. This wasn’t it. I spotted the Greek Isles Restaurant in a strip mall in Liberty Township, Ohio last night as we were leaving a performance. Since we were hungry and heading out to…
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Review: Jim Butcher
I finished Dragon Noir, and ended the trilogy I’d begun writing almost 3 years ago now. Which mean I could finally finish reading a series I’ve really enjoyed. My mental voice is too close to these books to allow myself to read it, and thus flavor my writing, while I was working on the Pixie…
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Review: Hand of God
I review a space opera over at Otherwhere Gazette, with a little more humor than usually slips into my reviews. I will also have a Friday review, as the long plane trip was good for my reading.
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Surviving the Boston Museum of Science
This is a mother’s field guide to the Boston Museum of science, with survival tips and tricks, in no particular order: DO NOT go on a vacation week. It was beyond mobbed. Had I any idea, we would have gone somewhere else, but I have limited time here. Don’t forget to carry bottles of water…
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Curmudgeon’s Corner: A Familiar Dragon
My First Reader and life-partner offered to do occasional posts for me, reviews, or general ramblings. I told him I’d create a Curmudgeon’s Corner for him, so he could feel free to be as pointed and trenchant with his comments and viewpoints as he is in real life. The man is a great evil muse,…
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Review: The Corpse Reader
I was sick enough the other day to read. As odd as that sounds, when I’m at the point where I’m too uncomfortable to sleep, and too miserable to do my usual daily work, I immerse myself in reading. By opening a book, and stepping through it into another world, I escape (to some extent)…
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Review Retrospective on 2013
In 2013, I set out to read more. I love reading, but had gotten so busy with work and school I no longer felt like I could justify the time for pleasure-reading. My head being the strange, messed-up place that it is, I convinced myself to justify the reading by starting to do book reviews…
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Review: The Dark Lady
Pam Uphoff has created an excellent SF series in the Wine of the Gods, starting with Outcast and Gods. Although it is science fiction, it has a fantasy feel, as the genetically engineered protagonists can manipulate the universe around them in a way that looks like magic. I just recently read the latest, The Dark…