Over the last few weeks, Attack of the Books! has been lucky to receive a few new reads, not all of which I am sure will get a review in the near future. I mean, we love to read, but there are only so many hours in the day, right? Also, don’t forget to go […]
Win Nightingale by David Farland [Giveaway]
2013-08-02 · by ·
[Don’t miss the giveaway at the bottom of the post! You can enter every day until next Thursday! We’ll select a winner on Friday] August is Utah Book Month, and here at Attack of the Books, we’re excited. Some of our favorite authors live and write right here in Utah, including including Shannon Hale, Brandon […]
Review | The Sum of All Men by David Farland
2013-08-01 · by ·
As I said in my review of On My Way to Paradise, I don’t know how I missed Dave Wolverton back in the late 1990s, but I’m sure it had something to do with starting college, doing more homework and reading fewer novels, and, probably, girls. Whatever it was that distracted me at the time, […]
What’s in a name? Talent or dumb luck?
2013-07-15 · by ·
What do you do if you’re a world famous author whose writing is inseparably connected with a certain brand? A horror writer who wants to know if his success is due to talent or luck? A writer of teen fantasy involving a school for child wizards who wants to explore her abilities without the help […]
Review | Abaddon’s Gate by James S.A. Corey
2013-07-11 · by ·
Have I got a treat for you, the cure for your mid-summer doldrums. With Abaddon’s Gate, James S. A. Corey brings to a conclusion the epic space opera series The Expanse with a bang that can only be described as explosive, even if it does have slow fuse to put all the pieces in place with […]
The Psychology of Abandonment, according to Goodreads
2013-07-10 · by ·
Goodreads asks an interesting question: Why do readers abandon books? In the Goodread’s data, based on the books that are most often shelved by its users as ‘abandoned,’ ‘did not finish,’ or ‘unfinished,’ the following were the most abandoned books: The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James Eat, Pray, Love by […]
Review | Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
2013-06-24 · by ·
In the strange and surreal world of the former-Soviet Union, where the line between the mafia and, well, everyone else is thin, there lives a writer…and he may not even know which side of the line he lives on himself. I don’t typically read crime novels. I’ve picked up an occasional thriller (David Baldacci‘s Absolute […]
In the news: George Orwell’s 1984 is flying off the shelves [Poll]
2013-06-12 · by ·
[Don’t forget to take the poll at the bottom and leave your comments if you’ve read the book] If they haven’t already, apparently, a lot of people are planning on reading George Orwell’s classic dystopian novels, Animal Farm and 1984. In the wake of the NSA snooping–allegations of listening in on Verizon customers and the […]
Review | Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences by Ward Connerly
2013-06-10 · by ·
Ward Connerly is a crusader, but a crusader who has picked a battle that matters. A black man born in the south but raised in the west, Connerly is a unique figure in the fight for equal rights against racial preferences. Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences, part autobiography and part political memoir, is […]
Book Review | The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson
2013-05-28 · by ·
Brandon Sanderson‘s creativity seems to know no bounds. It’s no secret that he likes use magical systems for his novels that follow rules. But is it still magic when the magic is so predictable that it’s almost scientific? With The Rithmatist, Sanderson uses his not insubstantial talents to spin a tale about an alternate world […]
