I just finished reading Feet of Clay, by Terry Pratchett. The novel gets off to an excellent start with a mysterious golem sale that ends up at the heart of a coup attempt. The novel features a burgeoning cast of characters that are finally being given a modicum of depth along with social commentary on […]

I just finished reading Maskerade, by Terry Pratchett. This is the fastest I’ve finished any of the Discworld novels so far, which I credit to Pratchett’s inclusion of multiple story lines at the outset. Each storyline weaves quickly into the others and some, like Nanny Ogg’s overdue compensation, are resolved relatively quickly, but there was […]

I found this list of books I read in 2008. Even including a lot of very short books, this is a breakneck pace. I think maybe I was trying to see how many I could read, but the memory is hazy. Some really great books on this list. The Privilege of the Sword, by Ellen […]