Book Reviews,
You Know, Those who Can't Write, Review...

I have this weird sickness: I enjoy reviewing things. I love writing essays. I've suffered this affliction for many years. Reviews fall roughly into two categories, so far as I'm concerned, fiction and non. (The nons will be craft books, classes and the like.) I even enjoy reading reviews. With this caveat in mind, proceed cautiously....

Non-Fiction:

Fiction:

20100605

Maria V. Snyder's new YA novel, Inside Out, is the beginning of a promising series. 05jun2010

 
20100602

Last in a three part rant critique of Katherine Allred's Alien Encounters. 02jun2010

 
20100526

I think it's just so cool to have all these beadmaking friends who also string and weave beads. (Beadwork, in my opinion is a subset of textile craft; whereas lampworking is quite a bit more plastic—the glass actually drips sometimes!—so the skillsets don't actually overlap that much. Thi...

 
20100525

So me and Cindi B have been exchanging popcorn novels, and so far, I'd say I have the better end of the deal, cuz I gave her one I couldn't even finish whereas the one she loaned me, Katherine Allred's Close Encounters: an Alien Affairs Novel, has provided me days of displacement activities ...

 
20100603

I'm having a difficult time disciplining myself putting all the new kitties I've been making on etsy, cuz I'll just have to take 'em back down again in a few days, since they're all going to Bead&Button. So I'm relisting this lovely old turquoise and `cinnabar' necklace on etsy & artfire inste...

 
20040522

Reviews of some—well, okay, 2—mysteries . 22may2004

 
20040522

Reviews of some romances . 22may2004