Charlie's Bookshelf

Warning: While I try to keep these posts as spoiler free as possible, when discussing the later books in a series, it is difficult to avoi...

Warning: While I try to keep these posts as spoiler free as possible, when discussing the later books in a series, it is difficult to avoi...

Warning: While I try to keep these posts as spoiler free as possible, when discussing the later books in a series, it is difficult to avoi...

Warning: While I try to keep these posts as spoiler free as possible, when discussing the later books in a series, it is difficult to avoid...

Warning: While I try to keep these posts as spoiler free as possible, when discussing the later books in a series, it is difficult to avoid ...

Warning: While I try to keep these posts as spoiler free as possible, when discussing the later books in a series, it is difficult to avoid...

Aaron Burr has always been a sort of favorite of mine.  Not in the sense that he was a role model or anything like that; a man who is, by ma...

At the end of the first three Mongoliad books, the main plot has been resolved but there are a few and fertile ground for imagining what hap...

Following my last post about Hyperbole and a Half  coincidentally this next post is also an "internet book".  Ryan North writes on...

This book is the original novel the famous movie Das Boot  is based upon.  If you have not seen the movie, as I have not, it is the story of...

I have never read any Mark Twain other than those mandated by my middle school curriculum until this one. This is another one of the many bo...

It feels a little unfair to compare this to Blackout/All Clear  because this was written years earlier and Ms. Willis has obviously improved...

A while back I did a post about Agent of Byzantium .  I talked about how it was not at all bad but the short story format didn't flesh o...

Agent of Byzantium is a collection of short stories that take place in an alternate timeline where the Byzantine Empire did not fall.  The ...

"Can a magician kill a man by magic?" Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. "I s...

I first heard about 11/22/63 from an interview with Stephen King at the end of one of the first Gunslinger comics (I know, I am a nerd).  I...

For the third and final book in the Mongoliad (though not the last in the overarching Foreworld Saga, as the authors keep reminding us) I de...

I received Gravity's Rainbow as a Christmas gift.  The back cover made it sound a little strange, missiles hitting in exactly the same ...

The second book of the Mongoliad is an interesting read.  It definitely continues the promise of the first book with vividly realized and de...

My discovery of Shane was sparked by Wikipedia.  I was looking up information on the most recent Dark Tower book (which I will be reviewing ...