Book Reviews

I confess to feeling a bit of envy for my friends who seem to be able to focus on a single game and then finish them within a reasonable timeframe. Some of them can plow through a 100 hour RPG in a month and then move on to the next game and finish it just as consistently. When I ask them how they c...

Eid Mubarak! Though by the time this blog post is up it'll probably already be a few days since Eid, haha! I've been looking forward to this; not the Eid day specifically, but the one-week holiday that came legally mandated with it where I live. I need this holiday so bad, man. Not necessarily bec...

This has got to be the most unique and complicated fantasy setting I've seen. A world of one gazillion warring political beliefs and violent religious enforcement, a man who can change history with the flick of a wrist, unseen monsters bleeding into the world. A melting pot of a city, unabashedly ra...

Review that devolves into a manic rant for The Way of Kings, a novel by Brandon Sanderson. Occasional expletives.

When I started this I didn't know what I was getting into.

The e-book for it was given for free during one of Tor's monthly promotional newsletter thing, which I signed up for...

Review of The Quantum Thief, a novel by Hannu Rajaniemi.

Reading The Quantum Thief is like opening a bottle full of lightning. It crashes into you with the speed of light, with the force of a thunderstorm, a sledgehammer, a typhoon, and you didn't see it coming, oh no you didn't. Suddenly your...

This time last year I had an internship as a software engineer in a start-up. It was a pretty good time---my first time in a corporate(-ish) environment, and the first time I get paid for writing strings of codes to a computer---but it was pretty busy. I didn't pick up any job for year's semester br...

I've been wondering if I should make a yearly Best Books list the same way I do Games of the Year. Books and Games, the two things I'm willing to throw hundreds of hours and dollars on. I keep less track of my books, though, and often have no idea if I read a book this year or last year or if I have...

Been having trouble writing (or being productive) again. School's been done for, about two weeks, now? I got a rewritten game review out, I'm bashing my head against the wall making a new version of my homepage. There's a story I'm stewing on that is supposed to be done by tomorrow and yet I can...

Review of The Name of the Wind, a novel by Patrick Rothfuss.

[caption id="attachment_175147805" align="alignright" width="271"] This heck of an excellent cover is for the 10th anniversary edition[/caption]

Here's a nice word in Indonesian that I haven't found an equivalence in English: roman...

So. January of 2017. What a nice month. For me, it's the beginning of a pretty major turn in my life after dropping out of college and finding new ways to put my life together. For the rest of the world, it seems the beginning of an age in which 2016 (the most horrible year) is just a prelude. I can...