I'm supporting Kindle writers by selecting for review the occasional eBook from Amazon's Kindle Store each month. This is the first of those selections.

Also, I'm taking LibraryThing's 50 Book Reading Challenge for 2010. This is my 8th read of the 50.

Eleganta: A novel of Fairykind by Denny Swartzlander is my February and first Kindle Pick of the Month. In a way, this is an experiment. First time writers publishing in the Kindle store either (1) couldn't get their novel published by a traditional publisher or (2) didn't submit to a traditional publisher. Either way, the traditional publishing route, which some people feel... [More]

One of the things I often do as I'm reading a novel or short story is keep track of words whose definitions I do not know or that I find interesting. Either way, these interesting words are ones I feel might be of use in my own writing. That, and it's good to expand one's vocabulary every once in a while.

Read my review of The Final Empire.

This time's Interesting Words come to us from Brandon Sanderson's The Final Empire. It's a short list, which probably tells you how difficult of a time you'll have with Sanderson's choice of vocabulary. In fact, I more or less knew the definitions of both of these, but wanted ... [More]

I'm taking LibraryThing's 50 Book Reading Challenge for 2010. This is my 7th read of the 50.

Novels in the Tales of the Dying Earth series include:

1. The Dying Earth
2. The Eyes of the Overworld (this post)
3. Cugel's Saga
4. Rhialto the Marvellous

The Eyes of the Overworld by Jack Vance is part of the Tales of the Dying Earth omnibus. Other novels included in the compilation include The Dying Earth, Cugel's Saga, and Rhialto the Marvellous.

Jack Vance is one of the most prolific and popular science fiction and fantasy writers of our time. Many of his works are considered classics. The individual novels found in the Tales of the Dy... [More]