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Werner wrote: "Robert's recent posting of his reviews (which I liked) of the Twilight Saga novels inspired me to post the links to mine, for whatever they're worth:
Twilight, www.goodreads.com/review..."

Thanks for the shout-out and endorsement, Werner.

As per usual, I found your reviews informative and insightful, even if we differed a bit on the details.

Thanks, Robert. (I'm a fan of your reviews, too!)

In one of my other groups yesterday, the subject of the late Ray Bradbury's wonderful book came up. I realized that so far, I'd never reviewed it; so I remedied that last night, and here's the link to that review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/15569021 .

, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, is a collection of stories I read about 11 years ago, but only got around to reviewing a few minutes ago. Here's the link to that review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/15330218 .

Earlier today, I finished by Tolkien, and just finished reviewing it. Here's the link to that review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/251300094 .

Here's the link to my review of , written in two installments and just completed last night: www.goodreads.com/review/show/295264162 . This is an anthology of original urban fantasy stories, which could serve as an excellent sampler to introduce a reader to several popular authors in that field (as well as a great read in its own right).

I've discovered that there are quite a few of my reviews that I've linked to on our Classics thread, but not on this thread; so I'm going to remedy that by adding those links:
www.goodreads.com/review/show/15317117
www.goodreads.com/review/show/15317150
www.goodreads.com/review/show/17081087
www.goodreads.com/review/show/17080993
www.goodreads.com/review/show/16856587
www.goodreads.com/review/show/16856323
www.goodreads.com/review/show/19646700
www.goodreads.com/review/show/15330692
www.goodreads.com/review/show/15330796
www.goodreads.com/review/show/15330997

Earlier, I'd linked to my review of Charles de Lint's A Handful of Coppers: Collected Early Stories, Vol. 1: Heroic Fantasy. Although I read the companion volume, at around the same time, I'd never gotten around to reviewing it until last night. That review is posted now, and here's the link: www.goodreads.com/review/show/18351800 .

One of my other groups is currently doing a common read of , which I've read twice but had never reviewed here until tonight. I've now remedied that, and here's that link: www.goodreads.com/review/show/18335060 .

The only two books I've read in John Sandford's popular Lucas Davenport series are and , both of which I reviewed some time ago. I edited one of those reviews slightly this afternoon, so I thought this might be an opportune time to link to both reviews here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/76902714 and www.goodreads.com/review/show/104802556 .

When Hugh mentioned that he's currently reading Eric Flint's , I was reminded that I'd done a review of that novel myself. The link is here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/18227585 .

One of the more popular Goodreads reviews I've ever done was the one of by Corrie ten Boom; here's that link: www.goodreads.com/review/show/17596098 . The review itself isn't particularly remarkable; it probably owes its number of "likes" mainly to the deserved popularity of the book itself.

It turns out that there were several review links I'd posted on the Urban Fantasy fantasy thread that I never posted here until now! In no particular order, these are:
. www.goodreads.com/review/show/18351553

. www.goodreads.com/review/show/456253747

. www.goodreads.com/review/show/532103417

. www.goodreads.com/review/show/280631975

. www.goodreads.com/review/show/280632386

. www.goodreads.com/review/show/280633114

Recently, I discovered four more links to reviews that I'd posted on other threads (one on the Drama thread, and three on the Westerns thread), but never posted here. To remedy that oversight, here they are:
. www.goodreads.com/review/show/54016998

. www.goodreads.com/review/show/15804134

. www.goodreads.com/review/show/15316029

. www.goodreads.com/review/show/138580127

My latest review, of Clive Lee's debut novel , went up last night. Here's that link: www.goodreads.com/review/show/865206172 .

William Morris' 1894 novel was one of the germinal influences on the shaping of the fantasy genre, and is still well worth a read today. Here's my review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/18369161 .

Last night, I finally got around to posting my review (www.goodreads.com/review/show/15330909 ) of Nathaniel Hawthorne's . It's a favorite book by a favorite author, read many years ago; so it was gratifying to review it at last!

Theodore H.White's is a book I read back in 1966, but didn't get around to reviewing until last night. Here's that link: www.goodreads.com/review/show/17582153 .

Here's the link to my latest review, posted last night: www.goodreads.com/review/show/18415476 . It's of , a fantasy anthology that takes a decidedly historical approach to the genre.

Our fellow group member Amber recently recommended a free short e-story to me, by Wil Wheaton (yes, that is the same Wil Wheaton who was formerly of the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation). I read it last night (it's a quick read), and posted my review here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/943736627 .

Here's my review of the first book in Percival Constantine's New Pulp adventure series, Myth Hunters, The Lost Continent: www.goodreads.com/review/show/927988969 .

isn't the first volume of Wayne Reinagel's Pulp Heroes trilogy to be written, but its events precede those of the other two in the series' internal chronology. My review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/839979838 .

Relatively speaking, I haven't read and reviewed a lot of general fiction with a reasonably modern or contemporary setting; but I can and do appreciate well-written fiction in that mode, and I've reviewed some of it. Since I'm in the process of gradually trying to link to all of my Goodreads reviews on this thread, I thought it might be practical to post some of those links next:

, by Jan Karon. www.goodreads.com/review/show/33318403
, by Denise Giardina. www.goodreads.com/review/show/15570071
, by Sharyn McCrumb. www.goodreads.com/review/show/15570438
, by Chaim Potok. www.goodreads.com/review/show/15570791
, by Nicholas Sparks. www.goodreads.com/review/show/15571011 . Three out of these six are set in Appalachia, reflecting my own long residence here. (And I hope to read and review more Appalachian fiction in the coming years!)

J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, of course, is fiction of a very different sort; it's one of my all-time favorites in the supernatural genre. So far, I've only reviewed the first novel of the series, . That review is here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/18379582 .

This past week, I've posted three new reviews. One is only a partial review, of a short story collection that I'm reading intermittently, and not ready yet for a link here; but the other two, of and , are complete. Here are those links: www.goodreads.com/review/show/35756399 and www.goodreads.com/review/show/33319389 .

William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream was chosen as this month's common read in a classics group I belong to here on Goodreads, so I recently read it for the first time (though I've seen it performed twice). My review, posted last night, is here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/970350792 .

My friend Andrew Seddon's story collection is the sequel to his earlier . Here are the links to my reviews of both books: www.goodreads.com/review/show/555923014 .
www.goodreads.com/review/show/974973120 .

My review of Manly Wade Wellman's posthumous story collection was posted a few days ago,but I'm only now getting around to linking to it here; sorry! www.goodreads.com/review/show/968026907 .

It's been awhile since I've had time to post a few more of my older reviews on here, so I'm going to try to grab a chance to add a few of them tonight. Here are some more links to reviews of supernatural fiction: and , both also by Manly Wade Wellman (see the post above). www.goodreads.com/review/show/18460294 and www.goodreads.com/review/show/18460640 .
and , both by Fred Saberhagen. www.goodreads.com/review/show/16094159 and www.goodreads.com/review/show/18416796 .

The next four books are all collections of scary or macabre short fiction, which are often of a supernatural nature: www.goodreads.com/review/show/22034506
www.goodreads.com/review/show/20281884
(edited by Peter Haining) www.goodreads.com/review/show/16091240
(edited by Ross R. Olney) www.goodreads.com/review/show/16092373

Here's the link to my review (posted just last night) of Norah Lofts' historical novel, set in the 18th century, : www.goodreads.com/review/show/979605456 . Lofts is a favorite author of mine, and this was a five-star read for me.

Historical fiction is a favorite genre of mine, so I've done quite a few Goodreads reviews in that area. Here are a few more links to some of those:

and are both by one of my favorite authors, Robert Louis Stevenson. www.goodreads.com/review/show/17081428 and www.goodreads.com/review/show/17081348 .

James Fenimore Cooper's is another 19th century classic that helped to define the genre. www.goodreads.com/review/show/16856043 . So is Alexander Dumas' , but I didn't personally rate that one as highly: www.goodreads.com/review/show/33318894 .

Daphne Du Maurier's is set in the 19th century, and has something of the flavor of a 19th-century classic, though written in the 20th century. www.goodreads.com/review/show/310125980 .

by Denise Giardina. (This covers the generation before the two that are focused on in The Unquiet Earth; I've already linked to my review of that one.) www.goodreads.com/review/show/22698815 .

Last night, I wasn't sure whether I'd be able to post a review or not; I was twice driven offline by a thunderstorm. But it finally settled down, and I was able to log on and review the book Barb and I finished reading earlier yesterday, Linda Howard's : www.goodreads.com/review/show/485854425 .

Here are the links for some more of my reviews of historical fiction. All seven of these novels were works that I liked.

by Norah Lofts. www.goodreads.com/review/show/39418945 .

by Andrew M. Seddon. www.goodreads.com/review/show/17081161 .

by Conrad Richter. www.goodreads.com/review/show/25095901 .

by Walter D. Edmonds. www.goodreads.com/review/show/16856470 .

by C. S. Forester. www.goodreads.com/review/show/42029206 .

by Charles B. Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. www.goodreads.com/review/show/17080864 .

by Benedict and Nancy Freedman. www.goodreads.com/review/show/15570023 .

I read very little on my Kindle app --just a rare short story, or occasional novel that I've gotten free and am choosing to try out in that format to see if it's good enough to deserve purchase in print. Here's my review of the latest of the latter, : www.goodreads.com/review/show/413065384 .

Though I'm a fan of pulp-era giant Robert E. Howard, until recently I'd never read any of his Solomon Kane stories. That's an omission I've now remedied; my review of is here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/133880459 .

Norah Lofts has been a favorite writer of mine since I discovered her work way back in the 60s, and I've been able to expand my acquaintance with her novels in recent years. Here's my review of the one I just finished today, : www.goodreads.com/review/show/132362934 .

For awhile now, I've been reading favorable reviews of the various novels in D. B. Jackson's Thieftaker Chronicles series. This morning, I discovered that he wrote a prequel short story, , which can be read online for free at the publisher's website. It didn't take me long to do that! My review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/1042685637 .

by Steven Sidor is a novel I read back in 2011, as an advance review copy, and originally rated at three stars; but after some time of reflection, I went back later and raised the rating to four. Just now, I had occasion to revisit the review; so I thought I'd link to it here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/159265610 .

Earlier this week, I tried a short e-story (available for free on Kindle) from Martyn V. Halm's Amsterdam Assassin series, . My review (www.goodreads.com/review/show/1053266606 ) is one of my relatively rare one-stars; but I did try to note the positives as well, and some readers have liked it much better than I did. (Aspects I found to be major negatives might strike others as positives!)

Continuing the motif of assassin protagonists, this is a review I posted about three years ago, but recently revised to provide a star rating, of my Goodreads friend B. R. Stateham's : www.goodreads.com/review/show/243424781 . It earned four stars from me.

Earlier today, in order to verify a story title, I revisited this review of , which was one of the earliest ones I ever posted on Goodreads. (Despite the title, the stories aren't all from the fantasy genre as I'd define it; but they're all speculative fiction.) www.goodreads.com/review/show/18665174 .

Here's the link to a newly-written review, but (like the previous two) of a book I read some time ago, in this instance : www.goodreads.com/review/show/18333631 .

Here are the links to several more of my reviews of classics that I've never gotten around to posting here until now. All are from the late 19th or early 20th centuries, and the first four are by American authors. The first one is a "two-fer;" I reviewed Jack London's in one review, although I didn't actually read them together, because they lend themselves to comparison and contrast. www.goodreads.com/review/show/15332224 .

, by Theodore Dreiser. www.goodreads.com/review/show/15330027 .

, by Hamlin Garland. www.goodreads.com/review/show/17438385 .

, by Charles Sheldon. www.goodreads.com/review/show/15333239 .

Lucy Maud Montgomery, the author of was of course Canadian; while author Rudyard Kipling was, as most avid readers already know, a British writer raised in India.
www.goodreads.com/review/show/20301627 .
www.goodreads.com/review/show/15332787 .

Sam Moskowitz's Explorers of the Infinite: Shapers of Science Fiction is an excellent collection of biocritical studies of early SF writers, if anyone's interested in learning more about the genre's history (and maybe discovering some new writers --I did!). Here's my review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/17337259 .

Going through my notes, I found a couple more 19th-century classics that I've reviewed and liked, but hadn't posted links to my reviews of them here before: Henry James' , and by Anna Sewell.
www.goodreads.com/review/show/15331728 .
www.goodreads.com/review/show/15333182 .

Ernest Hemingway's enjoys the status of an early 20th-century classic, but it happens to be one that I didn't like. My review is here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/15571406 .

Since my undergraduate major is history, I've naturally read and reviewed quite a few books in that subject area. Here are links to a few of those reviews (chosen because I happen to have the links tracked down and written out already! :-) ):

. www.goodreads.com/review/show/65464194 .

, by Jaime Suchlicki. www.goodreads.com/review/show/17299864 .

. www.goodreads.com/review/show/225975187 .

, by Robert Shogan. www.goodreads.com/review/show/28192860 .

Bluefield West Virginia, 1889-1989: A Centennial History, by C. Stuart McGehee. www.goodreads.com/review/show/251318347 .

Here's the link to my most-recently posted review, of R. D. Blackmore's quintessentially Romantic historical fiction classic : www.goodreads.com/review/show/33317965 .

Since I'm not generally a fan of contemporary poetry, by Melanie Francis isn't a book I would normally have picked to read on my own; but my Goodreads friend Lynne King was so impressed with this collection that she gave me a copy and urged me to read it right away. I did like it overall, so her kind generosity wasn't mispleced! My review is here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/1066266839 .

Here's the link to my latest review, of the opening novel in Suzanne Arruda's Jade del Cameron mystery series, set in post-World War I Africa and featuring a card-carrying strong heroine: www.goodreads.com/review/show/251297098 . It got five stars from me, and my wife heartily liked it too!

I just noticed that in my last post, I never identified the title of the book the linked review was about; it's .

Erin Morgenstern's is a book I discovered only because it was picked as a common read in another group I belong to; but it was a happy discovery, and another five-star read! My review is here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/1082507680 .

Yesterday, I posted reviews of two books, newly finished at about the same time: The Tanist's Wife and Other Stories: Stories of Alternative Histories, and one of C. S. Lewis' many nonfiction books, The Four Loves. Here are the links to those reviews: www.goodreads.com/review/show/1076371616 and www.goodreads.com/review/show/1094479109 .

It's been awhile since I posted links to any of my "retrospective" reviews from before I joined the BREX group (and I have quite a few of those, having joined Goodreads in February 2008!); so I decided that today might be a good time to work a bit more on that ongoing project. These are reviews of short story collections that all fall under the umbrella of science fiction.

The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-90. www.goodreads.com/review/show/18910785 .

Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson. www.goodreads.com/review/show/18100416 .

Shadows Over Baker Street. www.goodreads.com/review/show/17480846 .

Because I'm currently reading Ghosts: A Natural History: 500 Years of Searching for Proof, I was reminded of a book I'd read about 30 years ago, The Poltergeist by William G. Roll, and decided it was time to finally review it. That review was posted last night, so here I'm linking both to it and to an earlier review I did of a book with similar subject matter, True Irish Ghost Stories:

www.goodreads.com/review/show/1112182714
www.goodreads.com/review/show/22219283