Val's Random Comments

A new year so time for an Alastair Reynolds review, albeit a bit later than usual. House of Suns is another one of Alastair Reynolds'...

My blogging over the last six weeks are obviously not everything I would have hoped for. I found a apartment last month, which is something ...

Got twenty-six to write and I'd like to do at least ten of them this weekend. Otherwise I'll never make the deadline. I have read al...

My attention for Dutch language has been sorely lacking this year. The last time I reviewed one is a year ago, almost to the day. I am rea...

I haven't been very adventurous in my reading for the Damon Knight Grand Master reading challenge. Seven of the ten books I've rea...

...that I didn't post a new review this weekend. I had hoped to write two, but unfortunately I seem to have developed bronchitis, which ...

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms , book one in the Inheritance trilogy, is one of the most discussed releases of 2009. It has launched Jemisi...

There is absolutely no point in reviewing The Hobbit (1937) of course. Like Tolkien's Magnun Opus The Lord of the Rings , it has been...

Be My Enemy is Ian McDonald's second book in the Young Adult Everness series. I read the first novel, Planesrunner , last year and i...

Last month I ran a poll to help me decide which book should be reviewed work number 300 on Random Comments and tied it to the Grand Maste...