Wisdom of Bookmonkey

Last week the announcements went out, and as per usual I'm now going to dedicate the next month to watching all of the fancy films rec...

China Mieville's second book set in the world of Bas-Lag is the 2004 novel, The Scar, and even though it doesn't take place in th...

So for my fortieth birthday my lovely wife tracked down a large number of hardcover Charles de Lint books for me, including a number I h...

Jeffrey Ford's The Physiognomy (1997) has been on my "To Read" list and my "Used Bookstore" list for almost a deca...

Finishing my first year of reading historical fiction set in Ancient Greece, I read my second Steven Pressfield novel, Gates of Fire. Th...

Think of some long term goals you've had in life; marriage, wealth, kids, fantasy vacations, retire by 55, you know the type. Those s...

Happy New Year's Everyone! Hoping 2017 will be a great year for us all! Your old pal, Bookmonkey