Nicholas Bruner
Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Young Adult Author
Tag: book reviews
What I’m Reading: The Dinner
Paul Lohman and his wife, Claire, are going out to dinner tonight with Paul’s brother, Serge, and his sister-in-law, Babette. Paul is not looking forward to this dinner. He seems to be a bit of a homebody, dedicated to his wife and fifteen-year-old son,… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: The Dinner”
What I’m Reading: Re-Start
Re-Start, by Gordon Korman, is the second book by this author I’ve reviewed on this site. The first, Ungifted, I gave a fairly positive review to here. I like the author fine, but I’m not trying to follow him or anything–this is one of the… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: Re-Start”
What I’m Reading: In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made, by the late NYU Professor Norman F. Cantor, is billed on the cover as the best and most thorough book of the Black Death ever written. I don’t know. It… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made”
What I’m Reading: Stories of Daily Life From the Roman World
Stories of Daily Life From the Roman World: Extracts From the Ancient Colloquia, translated and with commentary by Eleanor Dickey, is not precisely what I was expecting, although it was close enough.
What I’m Reading: A Single Happened Thing
Ack, I’m falling behind! Before I rate some more scary movies, I want to briefly review A Single Happened Thing, by Daniel Paisner. This book follows New York City book publicist David Felb, who has a boring, normal, and kind of disappointing life until… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: A Single Happened Thing”
What I’m Reading: The Mote in God’s Eye
Now this is a great science fiction novel, and simultaneously an illustration of the limits of genre fiction. The Mote in God’s Eye, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, succeeds at every level as an SF story. The primary character in a very large… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: The Mote in God’s Eye”
What I’m Reading: Full of Beans
Beans lives in Key West, Florida, during the Depression, where every kid and adult seems to have a nickname. In fact, that’s about all they have, because the Depression has hit Key West hard, and there are no jobs or money available. The cigar-rolling… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: Full of Beans”
What I’m Reading: Conversations of Socrates
After his execution in 400 BC, lots of Socrates’ friends and students wrote accounts of him, but the writings of only two of those authors survive today: Plato, with more than 20 dialogues “starring” his old teacher, and Xenophon, with four accounts (although Xenophon… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: Conversations of Socrates”
