This is a fictionalized memoir of Chesbro's life. To me it was an interesting read but the narrator's (author's) emotional distance made it rough going for me at times so I often set it aside for a while (thus the 4+ years to complete). The sections about teaching in the ARK unit were the most interesting to me but they also displayed a LOT of emotional distancing (which was likely needed in the context of a youth psychiatric correction unit)
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Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
Hogfather is the 20th Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, and a 1997 British Fantasy Award nominee. It was first released …
Roy Adams rated Escape Velocity: 4 stars
Escape Velocity by Victor Manibo
Space Habitat Altaire is the premier luxury resort in low Earth orbit, playground of the privileged and the perfect location …
Roy Adams rated Invisible Planets: Collected Fiction: 5 stars
Invisible Planets: Collected Fiction by Hannu Rajaniemi
A great mix of short stories
Roy Adams reviewed Prism: a memoir as fiction by George C. Chesbro
Memoir as fiction
3 stars
Roy Adams rated Prism: a memoir as fiction: 4 stars
Roy Adams rated The Helm of Midnight: 5 stars
Roy Adams started reading The Lady or the Tiger and Other Stories by Terence Hanbury White
Picked this up at the Black Cat bookstore in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Roy Adams reviewed Skye Object 3270a by Linda Nagata
Young Adult novel in the Nanotech Succession series
5 stars
Story about Skye at Deception Well. A good story about her and her other 14 / 15 year old friends. Introduces some of the history of humanity and the technology from the Nanotech Succession series.
Roy Adams rated Skye Object 3270a: 5 stars
Roy Adams reviewed Ad Eternum by Elizabeth Bear
Excellent continuation of the New Amsterdam series
5 stars
After Lady Abigail Irene Garrett dies of old age her long time wampyr companion decides to return (alone) to New Amsterdam after 60 years ago. He makes new and renews prior acquaintances to help pull him from a deep ennui after long centuries of being undead.
Holes by Louis Sachar (Holes, #1)
Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. …
Roy Adams wants to read Shadow of a Broken Man by George C. Chesbro
I read all fourteen of the Mongo the Magnificent books starting in the mid 1990s. I'm currently reading Chesbro's Prism and decided I need to read them all again.
Roy Adams reviewed Feet of Clay (Discworld) by Terry Pratchett
Nineteenth in the Discworld universe and third entry of the City Watch series, this novel …
The Night Watch really shines!
5 stars
The Night Watch is growing and expanding who is eligible to serve because there is lots of work and cases to solve. They are even delving into forensic analysis (via alchemy). Meanwhile the Patrician is being poisoned so Commander Vimes leads the investigation. Meanwhile, meanwhile Captain Carrot and Angua are investigating crimes related to golems. And it seems maybe we should have been pronouncing "nobby" as "noble" due to his bloodline.