I loved Inferno so much, I'm not sure why I can't get into this one. Maybe I'm too old.

As ever, Wodehouse is perfection.

I don’t like AIs, sentient ones even less so. So vast parts of this book were super boring to me because I just don’t care about how difficult it is for a computer program to acclimate to a human body when she was built to command a ship. But I loved learning about Pepper’s background, and I teared up three times so I have to give credit where credit is due. Chambers does a fabulous job of building alien species and handling gender issues.

This wild and trippy story is told in the second person, which I'm a sucker for. It reads like a user manual for "your" new job as a virtual tour photographer, but it's also a story about "you" and your Estranged Girlfriend. Would recommend if you're in a weird mood and aren't sure what to read next.

This took me a while to get through, but the ending was really perfect and totally worth the time it took. I think my problem is that I don't feel like the story is growing at all. This one felt the same as the first two; Magdalena and Jakob are headstrong and get into trouble and Simon argues with his father and tries to help them out. I love learning about the world in 1662, so as historical fiction it's very well done.

Neil deGrasse Tyson recommends that everyone read the Bible "to learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself."

I read this book over the course of several years. I started this book as a spiritual person. Halfway through I identified as an atheist. By the end, I found myself fervently hoping that the God in this wretched book does not exist, because the only cruelty deeper than his own is that of his followers.

De Bodard turns the fallen angel myth on its head, portraying them as still falling present tense and as members of a greater world of Furies and dragon spirits and other various immortals, setting them in a devastated AU version of Paris. The war is bloody and the dejected characters are interesting and dark and original. My only complaint is that de Bodard writes characters so cold, or stupid, or bitter, or naive, that you don't really care about any of them, so it's hard to muster up much interest when they are hurt. I did love that the head of both major Houses were homosexual, and that one of the main characters was from Vietnam and those myths were included as well.

Anna Faris is a regular person. No, really. Her memoir covers spats with her family, desperately wanting a relationship in high school, getting high in college -- so painfully normal that I might as well have been reading about my own life. I loved that she used to spend tons of time on Chatroulette, and she did have some great relationship advice that came from her podcast. I'd recommend it for fans of her but overall it's nothing exciting.