Une petite virée dans l'univers SF que j'aurais sans doute davantage appréciée si je connaissais davantage que deux titres parmi la myriade référencée (Lord of the Rings et Narnia). Si ce livre est une chose, c'est bien une leçon d'humilité, une introduction foisonnante à un monde avec autant de ...
Una persona, dos vidas paralelas. Una en la que es feliz y tiene una familia estupenda, pero en un mundo con terrorismo y violento. Y la otra en la que su vida familiar no es tan buena, pero ese mundo es mejor que el nuestro. Por ciertos motivos personales es un libro que me ha llegado especialme...
This was a satisfying end to a trilogy of books for a change. The last couple trilogies I've ready ended in a very unsatisfying way, with the third books always disappointing. This was the exception to the rule as it was the best of the three books for me. I didn't give it the highest rating beca...
In The King's Name, the rule of law established in The King's Peace is threatened by civil war. The kings of Tir Tanagiri have become comfortable in the peace, and are starting to get cranky about having to report to a High King. Morthu, son of the sorceress Sulien killed in the first book, is ...
This review originally appeared on my blog, Books Without Any Pictures:http://bookswithoutanypictures.com/20...Do you ever have one of those books that you just know you’ll love, but they you start reading it and it seems to drag on and on without reason? I was incredibly excited to read The Kin...
I loved Farthing, the first book in this series, despite avoiding alternate history and especially anything involving Nazis and WWII like the plague. In Farthing, Jo Walton took a classic British country house mystery and used it to divert the reader from all the subtly horrifying alternate histo...
Este es un libro curioso y diferente. Narra la historia de una familia que se enfrenta a la muerte de su padre, de un hijo que acude a la ley para reclamar su herencia, de otro que se atormenta con la confesin que le hizo su progenitor en su lecho de muerte; de una hija que se enamora, de otra qu...
One summer weekend in 1949 — but not our 1949 — the well-connected "Farthing set", a group of upper-crust English families, enjoy a country retreat. Lucy is a minor daughter in one of those families; her parents were both leading figures in the group that overthrew Churchill and negotiated peace...
None of those facts are unproblematic. It wasn’t exactly a newspaper, nor was the process by which he received the information really reading. The question of his consciousness is a matter of controversy, and the process by which he regained it certainly illegal. The issue of whether he could be ...
Say something,” Pytheas said after I’d been staring at them for a long moment. “I’m all right. I’m cured,” I said. “But I—. You. How, why?” They looked at each other for an instant, and then back at me. There might be gods who couldn’t have deduced what I meant from that, but these two were not a...
We sailed northeast to Mykonos, which had some scattered fishing settlements a little more civilized than those of Naxos and Paros, but only a little. A party tried to talk to them, again without success. I didn’t go ashore, and I couldn’t catch Father alone. We sailed on east to Ikaria, which we...
I wonder if I should go to the doctor again about it. Nurse has the prescription for Distalgesic, I could go to her and have one. I would, except it’s down two flights of stairs and then up one.Who would have thought Richard the Third didn’t actually kill the princes in the Tower?Letter from Aunt...
It wasn’t just Bee’s injuries, though they were terrible enough. She had lost both legs above the knee—on the left two inches above and on the right four inches. It was the constant grind of lying to be able to see Bee, and coping with all of the children. There were still four weeks of the summe...
THE IMPORTANCE OF HATS Avan woke with the sense of having slept soundly, as one does on gold. Beside him, Sebeth yawned delicately, her ladylike wing in front of her mouth. She settled back onto the gold and looked at Avan through half-lidded eyes. Though he found her as alluring as always, Avan ...
Marsilia And there it was, the great achievement of my political career, in haste, in the fountain room of Thessaly. Platonic Saeli didn’t need to ransom themselves individually from Jathery anymore. I had freed them all with a coin he had given me. I don’t know how I sounded, but I was frightene...