Though I read this book very quickly and it was interesting, I found it lacking in cohesiveness. She explains different times in her life in an out-of-order jumble with no clear flow between them or understandable reasoning for the ordering. I found some of her attitudes very healthy and others astonished me, but I appreciate her candid honesty and writing a very personal story of her life which is public in ways most are not.

Maybe my favorite Westerfeld novel, in spite of the fact that I probably didn't really understand it. Science Fiction to me often has this quality of incomprehensibility, as if it's operating on a higher plane than I am as the reader. Still, the unfolding of events in this novel captivated my mind and moved me deeply.

Gone Girl was, for me, a page-turner in the purest sense. Kept me guessing until breaking everything open and forcing me to reevaluate it all. Really great characters even with all of their flaws.

An excellent coming of age story set in a richly imagined nanotechnological future. This book felt so epic to me, charting Nell's growth from a very child to a mature young adult, and the stories of others woven around her as they impacted her development. The technologies were so great and well realized, although I felt some of the characters' motivations remained obscured in an unsatisfying manner. It's not unusual that I want to keep reading a story beyond where the author chose to conclude it, as was the case with this novel, but I think I appreciate the place Stephenson chose to leave off anyway.

It's no surprise to me that Neuromancer is lauded as such an important work for its genre. The plot was gripping even when I found the details muddied and hard to follow. Gibson doesn't give you anything for free and I was constantly flipping back through previous pages to connect dots for myself. All worth it to be rewarded with both an interesting exploration of this particular world teeming with ideas of what the future could have in store, alongside storytelling with a deeper emotional resonance.

Steelheart is kind of like Mistborn, except with Superheroes, except the Superheroes are the bad guys. So, it was totally awesome. Sanderson revisits the theme of the corrupting effect of immense power in another tale of more-normal people fighting against a seemingly unbeatable enemy. And, even though I found the characters less compelling (which really isn't saying much when the comparison is to Mistborn), the story was fresh and exciting, action packed with notes of powerful sentiment.

I am so excited by Sanderson's worldbuilding. The gritty setting of a Chicago turned to steel of Steelheart was replaced with the vibrant epic transformed Manhattan, half submerged in water and lit by glowing spray paint and buildings full of glowing fruits. The way the arc of the story progressed was very satisfying, while still leaving me wanting more answers and more action.

A moving and beautiful story that aims to answer the biggest questions we have with an unrelenting hope for creators more spectacular than most of us have ever dared. Sagan writes with a brilliant straightforwardness as he describes the vast complexities of the universe and in the human heart.