rawbrick.net - bookpersonal weblog, media consumptiveThe Honor of the Queen- June 9, 2008 This was a solid sequel to On Basilisk Station, featuring more nation-state maneuverings and satisfying space battles. This time around, Captain Honor Harrington of Manticore has moved up to command a squadron tasked to accompany a diplomatic mission. The mission is to form an alliance with a planet that is technologically-backwards and socially-conservative, but at the same time, located in a part of a space that will be key if Manticore and the expansionist Havenites ever go to war. This...http://www.rawbrick.net/book/1797/the-honor-of-the-queen I Was Told There'd Be Cake- June 8, 2008 This is a book of amusing personal essays. Crosley wanders sometimes in her writing, but even when I would get lost in her prose&8212;forgetting once how the essay even started and having to backtrace and re-read to figure out how she got from there to here&8212;I liked it. It probably helps that we&8217;re about the same age and a lot of her observations really felt accurate to me. She writes about being in the bridal party of someone she didn&8217;t really know any more, about wanting to...http://www.rawbrick.net/book/1796/i-was-told-thered-be-cake |