A cute and enjoyable urban fantasy trilogy. Not my usual genre, but the author will be our guest of honor at Norwescon 39 in a few months, and I wanted to have an idea of her work. The full trilogy was fun; for me, the humor felt more natural (and thus funnier) by the third book...though, slightly unfortunately, the editing wasn't as good by the final book, and occasional typos would distract me. Still, that's a relatively minor complaint, though. In the end, very enjoyable fantasy fluff.

It is what it is: a choose-your-own-adventure style kid's book set in the Star Trek universe. First contact with alien races, battles with Klingons, time travel, or the Mirror universe, depending on your choices as an ensign on the Enterprise. Spock is oddly prone to smiling at the end of many of the storylines, though.

From a Kickstarter project I backed, this is a fascinating and beautiful collection of stories (traditional and adaptations of) from North American indigenous cultures and creators. Neat stories and gorgeous artwork, very nicely done.

Interesting primarily due to its exploration of Klingon society and culture at a time when very little was canon. Of course, nearly everything posited in this book has since been contradicted by later Trek shows, but that's common to many of the Trek novels.

Dark, cynically funny. As I started reading, I was particularly amused that as the book is being dictated to an airplane black box as it's heading to a crash, all the chapters and page numbers count down to the end, rather than upwards as normal.

A re-read, as I recently found Vol. 2 at Goodwill and plan to read it soon. Barker's a dark, twisted author, and very, very good at it.

Stephenson continues to very deservedly sit at the top of my "favorite current authors" list. This one is almost two separate books: the first 2/3 dealing with humanity's coping with a planet wide extinction level event; the last third picking up five millennia later. As usual, he is amazingly skilled at presenting very complex subjects (such as orbital dynamics, just one possible example in this book) in very understandable ways. From possible ways of moving out off of our planet to how we would deal with a global catastrophe, there's a lot to digest, but it's well worth doing.