GRblog: Review: The City & The City

Monday, July 18, 2011

Review: The City & The City

The City & The City by China Mieville

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

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Assassin's Quest

by Robin Hobb

Even though I'm a fan of the fantasy genre, every time I see a dragon on a book cover, I cringe and want to run away. But since I already read the first two books in this series, I felt I should read the concluding third book, despite the ...

tagged: epic and fantasy

Royal Assassin

by Robin Hobb

Wow! Just finished this book. Like the previous, the last few chapters flew by quickly because so much went on. It's great to see FitzChivalry finally learning something and growing as a character. But what a cliff-hanger. Can't wait for ...

Catching Fire

by Suzanne Collins

True, the first half of this book rehashes what we already knew from Hunger Games, except with more background to the characters. It also reveals that the end of the first book was only the tip of the iceberg.

Throughout parts o...

tagged: dystopia and young-adult

McGee & Stuckey's Bountiful Container: Create Container Gardens of Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits, and Edible Flowers

by Rose Marie Nichols McGee

This is THE book to get if you want to plant edible plants in a container. It doesn't have *everything* like weird strains of heirloom tomatoes, but it's a good general book telling you when you should plant something, how big the container...

tagged: gardening, howto, and non-fiction

The Windup Girl

by Paolo Bacigalupi

It's hard to say anything bad about a book that's garnered so much attention through nominations and winnings for various awards like the Nebula Award for best novel (2009).

The novel, set in a gritty, Blade Runner-like version o...

tagged: dystopia

Monday, July 18, 2011

Review: The City & The City

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