Strakul's Thoughts

The Story of the Stone is the second installment of Barry Hughart's Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox . It continues shortly ...

This was the latest book selected as part of the book club. It is the type of book that I never would have picked up in a thousand years. ...

Last week, I visited Flagstaff, Arizona to attend the 18th meeting of the "Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the...

I had to take some long flights and spend a week at a conference. I figured Storm Front by Jim Butcher was a light book I could read th...

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov is the latest book selected for our Santiago Book Club. The Amazon blurb is quite brief: Set ...

Ancillary Justice is a space opera novel that has been getting a lot of press lately as it wins award after award. It is the 2013 debut n...

This is, as the subtitle rightly states, "A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was." It is part of a short series of books rel...

Warbreaker is an interesting experiment that Brandon Sanderson decided to do. He released it online for free through his website, though ...