Matter, Energy, and Life of Michaela A. Castello.

Tag: books

  • Review: The Forest of Hands and Teeth [Spoilers]

    I picked this book up thanks to the recommendation in the Goodreads newsletter and I wasn’t disappointed.

  • Fahrenheit 451

    This was an excellent book—I especially loved the way Ray Bradbury ended it with the Afterward and Coda.

  • The Religion of Science Fiction

    Good science fiction authors are at the same time remarkably prophetic in their thinking and humorously influenced by their own time. I remember laughing aloud when one of the characters in Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land began darning a sock. To me, it was hilarious that in a futuristic world with space travel, characters would…

  • Fire Study by Maria V. Synder

    This is a decent conclusion to an enjoyable series.

  • Brisingr

    I really wish that Paolini would do the world a favor and just stop writing.

  • Inheritance Book 2: The Plagiarism Continues

    Once again, Paolini rips off the work of other talented storytellers while adding nothing new. The result is a predictable, flat story that, like its predecessor, reads like Tolkien fan fiction.

  • Eragon

    The concept of dragon riders seems like it would be cool, but I think it’s poorly executed.

  • Reading List Inoculation

    A few minutes ago I finished reading Flowers for Algernon, one of those extremely well-known titles that I wasn’t entirely sure if I had read before or not. It was an excellent book that I would highly recommend reading if you weren’t already required to at some point. One of the benefits of being largely…