Oh man, 18 disc long audio book that I can't speed up, you had better not have just gotten completely ruined. It feels an awful lot like everything that made the book entertaining despite its meandering just got wiped out, but I want to be wrong. That weird, out of nowhere thing that I just heard BETTER get cleaned up or I'm going to be spending the next 5 or so hours very very angry.

I loved this book. I loved the premise, I loved the imagery of the world it created, and I loved how much thought went into setting the whole concept of being "locked in" as something that was just part of everyday life. I think that's what Scalzi is really great at: creating clever variations on what we understand and turning it into a world that feels real.

Dang did this book cover a lot of ground. Sexual politics, misogyny, orientalism, the role of the news media, the particulars of the Japanese court system, and all without it feeling out of place. This is a crime story that remembers to focus on the human side, and tells its story well.

I love Discworld, but this book was especially good and had plenty of actual laugh-out-loud parts.

This was a weird one. The writing itself was good, but there were too many odd combinations of storylines going on at once. The ghost story seemed to pop up almost at random during an otherwise understandable women-in-prison plot. And you could see some of the big plot twists being set up ages before they finally paid off. So yeah. The author is talented but this book wasn't great.

I loved it! I know it's not perfect but I just don't care. I had fun from start to finish. It felt like I was reading a collection of stories about a recurring folktale character. The world building worked for me, and so did the loosely defined magic system. I totally loved this book.

Zachary Quinto's performance is delicious, and the story is clever as hell. I so want this to be the first of many Dispatcher stories to come. Thanks for the freebie, Mr. Scalzi!

Well that was quite a journey. Really beautifully written, the format worked very well with the plot, and I truly enjoyed it throughout the whole huge brick of a book. Part of me thinks the pacing was a little strange, but even that makes sense from a narrative perspective.

So close to being great. Ultimately, "HEX" gets in its own way by going on for longer than the story had material for. It gets repetitive and predictable before presenting a climax that worries less about giving the reader a satisfying conclusion than it does about trying to shock. Meh. Such a shame since the first third was so original and clever. The Black Rock Witch was a better idea than "HEX" could hold up.

"It's written in Old. Before they invented spelling."
There is nothing like a Terry Pratchett book. "Mort" was a fun, quick read, and even if it does make "Soul Music" retroactively feel like "Mort 2: Electric Boogaloo," I'm always happy to read more Death books.

What a fun, moving book! And there's a second book in-universe coming out this month! My timing is the best.

One of those books where I completely lost track of time reading it. Everything flowed from point to point so smoothly and was so interesting that I just kept going. And the imagery of the settings! So creative and so much fun to read. A great reminder of why I love reading fantasy.

This book is a goddamned classic and I will fight any son of a bitch who wants to complain about the punctuation choices Margaret Atwood made. Claire Danes did a fantastic job narrating.

This is the first panel where the front half of the gallery filled up before the prior panel was even able to leave.

Okay this book festival has been awesome. Time for a coffee break before the Naomi Novak and V.E. Schwab panel!