Stephen Lawhead’s second book in the Bright Empires series, The Bone House, was quite a trip. From ancient Egypt to 1600 Prague to present-day England to the era of cavemen – your head will be spinning by the time you close the book. At first I was a little disoriented…
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I’ve said it a gazillion times in my blog, and it’s still true. I love Anne McCaffrey’s writing. Seriously. I just finished the prequel to her Tower and Hive series, which I blogged about here. The books in this series were written some 30 years after the original series, which…
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As if I don’t have enough serial novels to catch up on, a friend introduced me to the Amelia Peabody series. Great, now I have yet another series to get through. The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters is the third book in the series (but from my understanding, you don’t…
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In a world where every thing you can think of has some sort of activist group behind it, I, Herman BrainCell, have decided to take up the cause of tacos. For years, tacos have had to play catch up to the all important cheeseburger, and though I do love a…
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I’ve read a lot of books that I would describe as fun, entertaining, insightful, interesting, and even brilliant. But few would be labeled with the word: delightful. The World of Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse is a collection of short stories presented as Bertram Wooster’s diary of incidents that he and…