Category: George R.R. Martin

(The adventure continues) Genre: Fantasy “I could not wait to see what happens next, and can’t wait to see how this ends, if in fact it does, in the next book.” UPDATE: It’s December 25, 2022 and I’m S-T-I-L-L waiting…. “A Dance With Dragons” continues the story with emphasis on several of the more popular, […]

– (The story continues with some dragging) Genre:  Fantasy – As explained at the end of this, the fourth book in the series, George R.R. Martin chose to focus on the Kings Landing area and the characters associated with that region.   Book 5 (“A Dance With Dragons”) will pick up the stories of the other characters […]

(The epic adventure continues) Genre: Fantasy – In this, the third book of the “A Song and Ice and Fire” series, Martin takes us on a rousing adventure covering many of the territories, islands, and venturing far north of the wall. This book is way to long to summarize in a short blog entry. Needless […]

  Genre:  Fantasy (Epic) “A Clash of Kings” is the second book of the “A Song of Ice and Fire” series, and is VERY long (nearly 1,000 pages).   I started reading the book, then Christmas rolled around and Santa brought me a Nook Simple Reader.  I downloaded (and paid for) the Nook version and […]

Genre:  Fantasy (brutal, epic) “A Game of Thrones” is the first of five books in the “A Song of Ice and Fire” series.  Galen at the Tracy, CA Barnes & Noble told me it was a great book (he was right) and that I really should expand beyond spies, killing and murder. With “Harry Potter” […]