Books I've Read: The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
Erin got this for me. It starts out promising but ends suddenly and leaves a lot of my questions unanswered. Reading it was worth it for several very good parts, but it could have been more.
I think Aaron would like this book (or parts of it).
Books I've Read: The Dervish House
Pre-ordered this like six months ahead of time for some reason -- probably an article on <a href="http://www.io9.com/" rel="nofollow">io9</a>. When it shipped, I couldn't remember why I got it. Near-future sci-fi is always difficult to do, but this book manages it, largely by dropping the sci-fi. There's several really, really good ideas in the book that go completely unexplored, at the expense of deep character development. The biggest character is the city of Istanbul itself, which I was totally unfamiliar with going in except for what I learned from TMBG.
Another unsatisfying, sudden ending left the whole thing as a mixed bag.



























