Charlie's Bookshelf

Warning: While this post contains only minor spoilers for Caliban's War, it does have more major spoilers for Leviathan Wakes , the prev...

I picked this book up as part of my flurry of buying books on December 31st, 2012 (I had a four hour layover).  This book came personally re...

This book was a Christmas gift, from the same Christmas that Gravity's Rainbow came from.  Luckily, this book was much more enjoyable.  ...

Having read, before this, Anthony Everitt's biographies of Hadrian and Augustus, I had a pretty good idea of what to expect from Cicero ...

Having gobbled up Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell  I decided to read Ms. Clarke's other work that takes place in a similar world.   The...

There are certain authors that I know that I will enjoy basically anything they write.  As a consequence, I do not buy books by these author...

I picked up Direct Descent at The Strand in New York City (which is a great bookstore and basically worth a trip to NYC in and of itself) i...