Skip to content
Collected Miscellany
Avid Readers, Occasional Bloggers
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • About
  • Contributors
  • Archive

Year: 2014

Reviews

The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde (audio)

Posted on December 14, 2014 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

It wasn't laugh out loud funny, at least to me, but it was witty and droll. With a number of interesting characters this first in a series was entertaining eno...

Reviews

The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde (audio)

Posted on December 14, 2014 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

It wasn't laugh out loud funny, at least to me, but it was witty and droll. With a number of interesting characters this first in a series was entertaining eno...

Reviews

Death's Doors by Lars Walker

Posted on December 5, 2014 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

I am a fan of Lars Walker's writing but I confess I really struggled with his latest novel. This dystopian fantasy felt didactic and preachy to me. Ultimately, ...

Site News

Theme OCD?

Posted on November 23, 2014 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

Did I just spend countless hours over the last few days futzing around with the themes on this site only to return to the theme I had been using for months? Yes...

Views

Get Them Reading

Posted on November 22, 2014 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

Fun flow chart for middle grade readers from HarperCollins. Full size is here.

Reviews

The Happiest People in the World by Brock Clarke

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

Like so much of Clarke's work it is full of brutally honest appraisals of human nature and tendencies but also absurd events and dark humor. But Clarke's chara...

Posts pagination

« Previous 1 2 3 … 27 Next »
  • Two Decades of Collected Miscellany, Now What?
  • Now on Micro.Blog
  • Book Review: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
  • Book Review: Goodbye to Clocks Ticking: How We Live While Dying by Joseph Monninger
  • Book Review: The Man in the Corduroy Suit by James Wolff

Archives

What Kevin’s Reading

Amazon Kindle art authors Bible blogging blogs Books Children's literature Christianity Christmas conservatism espionage Espionage Fiction faith fantasy Fantasy Fiction Fiction Folklore God Goodreads Historical fiction History illustration Jesus Literature memoir military history mystery non-fiction nonfiction Olen Steinhauer podcasts Politics Publishing Reading Religion and Spirituality Science fiction Speculative fiction thriller thrillers translation Twitter World War II Young Adult Fantasy young adult fiction

NetGalley

50 Book Reviews
Professional Reader
© 2025 Collected Miscellany
Powered by WordPress | Theme: Graphy by Themegraphy