Mr. Burke's Reading List

Caliban's Way by James S. A. Corey (2011) (Not a review, just some notes to help me remember the things I've read. But written this way because it's the Internet, and some people will stumble across this page.) As previously noted: I watched the first season of The Expanse when it first aired on Syfy . I have to admit, I was somewhat lost and couldn't follow a lot of lost was going on. I couldn't even understand some of what was being said. Had I thought about it, I might've deleted the timer I had set for the series. However, I forgot to, so it taped the second season, which I watched and enjoyed more. I think a third season aired on Syfy before it moved to Amazon. Comparing the book to the show: the first season of the show did not cover the entire first book. However, it did include characters from the second book, in particular, every character on Earth. The first half of the second season, which I recently rewatched, introduces a couple of B...

When You Had Power (Nothing Is Promised #1) by Susan Kaye Quinn (2020) (Not a review, just some notes to help me remember the things I've read. But written this way because it's the Internet, and some people will stumble across this page.) I write. I don't sell a lot of stories but I write as many as I can. When I look at the markets open to me, a couple of trends show. First, lots of people like horror. Unfortunately, I'm not really one of them. Second, there are emerging genres out there that don't havea lot of content in them. The ones that piqued my interest (or at least got my attention) are solarpunk , hopepunk and lunarpunk . I'm not exactly sure what these are, or how the first two differ from the other. I get that "solarpunk" is supposed to be the antithesis of the popular "grimdark" future stories. The idea is that the world can have a bright future, if we work together and work with the Earth instead of against it. Th...

This blog got away from me toward the end of the summer. I was reading quite a few things, trying to get through all of them, and not making headway anywhere. That's not entirely true. Those Exapnse books are huge and take some time. I've finished 3 of them now. I've also taken a couple other books from the library, one nonfiction and one an anthology, and I keep going back to them and then putting them aside after a while. However, I intend to finish both of them. Likewise, I've started other things that were on my phone mostly because they were there. Since I plan to finish these and not abandon them, there won't be entries until I'm done. That is all for now, except that I hope to start making entries in the next couple days.