Book Review: Ready Player One
Shi Min Xie Meet Wade Watts, or Parzival, as he’s better known online. Like so many otakus, Parzival uses the OASIS game interface to escape poverty, his mean aunt, and a world ravaged…
Book Reviews
Book Review: Serpentine by Cindy Pon
I really wanted to like this book. As someone who is Chinese, it’s already hard enough getting my hands on a Chinese-inspired fantasy, and to see someone who looks like…
Book Review – The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
It is Allan Karlsson’s 100th birthday and he doesn’t want to have a party at the Old Folks’ Home. Instead of going down to meet everyone, he climbs out of…
The One Safe Place By Tania Unsworth — A Review
One of the things I don’t like about some books is how they don’t have a synopsis on the cover — my borrowed copy of The One Safe Place didn’t,…
The Red Pyramid — A Review
While I was at the library, I came across the first book of The Red Pyramid series — lucky me. It’s actually quite hard to grab ahold of anything that…
Firefight by Brandon Sanderson — A Review
The problem with reviewing sequels is the one has to allude to the first book — in this case, it’s Steelheart. One of my favourite fantasy authors imagines a world…
The Card Turner — A Book Review
I’m familiar with Sachar’s work — I did read and love Holes, after all, so I picked up this book so see what else he’d been up to. It turns…
The Book You Should Totally Be Reading Right Now — The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu
Here’s a book I totally recommend — The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu: (Image from Ken Liu’s official website) Here’s a quick rundown of the plot: On the islands…
Throne of Glass Series Review
I just completed the whole review and was about to save this in WordPress when suddenly, WordPress gave me some stupid notice about how this action wasn’t legit — I’d…
How Matilda Shaped My Life
Like so many other children, I was a reader of Roald Dahl books. He was easily one of my favourite writers because everything in his books were so wild, imaginative,…