Val's Random Comments

Last year I reviewed Rutherfurd’s latest book New York: The Novel . I had read several books of this author before then but given the enormo...

And the second review to tide you over till I'm back from Germany. I wrote this one in March 2009. I polished it a little but it needed ...

The first review to tide you over till I am back from Germany. I wrote this one in March 2009. I has been polished a bit and I removed some ...

My girlfriend and I will be taking a short vacation in Germany next week. I very much doubt we'll have an internet connection at the pla...

Soul Catcher is one of Herbert's books that has been out of print for quite a while. I've been keeping an eye out for this book for...

I'd been tinkering with the blog for a couple of weeks and writing some content to get things started but the official opening of Rando...

Last year, Priest's novel Boneshaker (Tor, October 2009) took the Steampunk sub genre by storm. Her novel about an alternate history Se...

The tenth and final book in Steven Erikson's Malazan series, The Crippled God is expected in early 2011. I have no hopes of rereading t...

Reading short fiction is something I have to be in the mood for. For me, it is a very different kind of reading than novels. Potentially jus...

Voor de poorten van het duister is the Dutch title of Feist's latest novel. It's a pretty literal translation of the English title ...