It is a valuable book, well worth reading for anyone who is engaged in, or plans to engage in, research in any field – or, frankly, if you plan to engage in any kind of nonfiction writing. The sooner you read it, the better.
Lloyd’s Best Books of 2025
Ultimately, these five books are the ones I considered the best, the most memorable, the most impactful, of the books which I read this year. I wholeheartedly recommend them to you.
The Story of Cole Younger, By Himself Review
Some of this may be deliberate obfuscation, but to say all of it is intentional is probably lending him too much credit. Which would be inadvisable, as he’s apt to run off with it, the contents of your bank account, and your horses, too.
Wheel of Time Series Review
A literature professor claimed the difference between “plot” novels and “real literature” is that plot novels cease to be enjoyable once the reader knows how the story goes, while real literature retains and even deepens in its significance and impact upon successive readings, after the reader knows “how it ends.”
A Memory of Light Review
After so many books spent preparing for the Last Battle and Rand’s climactic struggle against the Dark One, we finally witness it. We witness it for almost a thousand pages, since A Memory of Light is basically a very, very long final battle scene.
The Rhetoric of Fiction Review
Several of the posts you’ve been seeing in recent weeks, and several in weeks to come, are prompted or inspired by the time I spent with Booth’s indispensable text. That’s not a word I select lightly.
Judges Review
Its real interest lies to me in how it depicts the interactions of this early form of Judaism and its practitioners with other faiths and their practitioners.
The Nibelungenlied Review
I am hesitant to draw significant conclusions about the work itself based on the transliteration, but I’ll draw a few for the purposes of this review. Most significant: why was Seigfried murdered?
Project Hail Mary Review
It has just enough going on to enjoy as a space-faring adventure romp with no real surprises or mind-twisting concepts to contemplate, which it seems is what my stressed and sleep-deprived brain needed when I read it.
The Palm-Wine Drinkard Review
Rather than hidden worlds of magic or mythical creatures hidden away from humanity, all that wonder (and horror) is still right here, a part of the world, and you might stumble upon the path to the lands of the dead as readily as you might take the turn right out of your neighborhood instead of left.
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