For starters, when I added it as “consuming”, AllConsuming assigned a date a week in the past. Very odd. Second, I have to stop reading it and return it to the library while I’m in Japan.

The strongest Rebus I’ve read in a while. I really enjoyed the way Rebus interacted with his colleagues (and they with each other). Siobhan’s continued development continues to intrigue. And although I’m usually put off by descriptions of Rebus’ relationship with the drink, this time I wasn’t so much, and I appreciate how we’re being told what we’re being told about it.

I’m still not entirely sold on Moist, but he’s growing on me, and I did appreciate some of the bank and money-related issues. (Why do we trade tiny pieces of paper for food or clothes?)
A stronger story throughout than Going Postal, but not one of Pratchett’s strongest.

With all the jumping around and various historical footnotes, I’d say this barely qualifies as a novel. (I know, I like the footnotes when Terry Pratchett does them – these weren’t fun.)
Of the various family members whose arcs we traced, I found only two of them to be the least bit interesting – Oscar and Abelard. The women did nothing for me, although La Inca seemed very nice.
Being a one time humongous geek myself (and I flatter myself that I’m now only a large geek), I noticed that Díaz really had the voice down – Oscar sounded exactly like he should, and when the narrator got into it, he was credible as well. This was perhaps the best thing about the book.
Otherwise, I did not like the narrator’s voice. In particular, I felt uncomfortable being called negro all the time (I’m sure this is a perfectly acceptable Dominican practise, but I still didn’t like it). My enjoyment was lessened by the fact that I don’t have anything approaching a working knowledge of Spanish, so I couldn’t tell what I was being told parts of the time.
All of this combined so that I was barely enjoying the book, zipping through the Abelard and Oscar parts, and dragging myself to read the others, so the book probably would’ve rated a low “worth consuming”, but the lack of quotation  marks pushed it over the edge.

A decent story collection about our favourite Edinburgher. Nothing particularly earth-shattering in here, and some of the stories were a little shallow, but I did enjoy seeing our old friend Brian Holmes once again. Probably my favourite parts of the book were those where we were briefly inside Rebus’s colleagues’ heads – seeing Brians motivations and fears and Lauderdale’s attitude towards Rebus. A nice, light, fun read.

I really enjoyed reading this book – I liked many of the characters, the story was pretty good, and the art was very nice. I’m taken with the cover-drawer’s work.
I’d’ve thrown this book up to 5 stars, but there were a few things that niggled at me, mostly the predictability. I felt like a few of the minor plot points (and one major one) were set up to surprise me, but nearly nothing did – maybe I just got lucky, or maybe it’s because the book was intended for a younger audience. Still, I enjoyed watching the non-surprising events play out and intend to consume the rest of the series.
I’m particularly looking forward to seeing Whedon’s and Moore’s work when they take over (okay, Whedon’s done, but I’m writing this from the virtual past).

Okay. I’m torn. I started off reading the book and nodding and enjoying myself. Pollan’s easy conversational style appeals to me – I like reading what he writes, and probably would almost no matter what he was writing.
And the tagline – Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly plants. – it’s maybe not Save the cheerleader. Save the world., but it’s pretty darn good. It makes sense.
Complaints: while being down on nutritionism, Pollan uses its methods to support his position. He even points this out (kinda late, as I was already annoyed by it) and notes that even though the tools are flawed, they’re the best we have. That may be, but it still rankles.
Also, the book is short. And repetitive – not a great combination, but better than long and repetitive.
So, it’s no The Omnivore’s Dilemma, but still entertaining and more than a little thought-provoking – I found myself counting the number of ingredients in my breakfast cereal this morning (more than 5, but I knew what they all were).

Better than Perdido Street Station. I’ve read comments that the characters are less sympathetic, but I didn’t find that to be so. Well, some of them, but they more than make up for it by being mysterious. Even though there’s more profanity than I tend to enjoy, China Miéville’s writing is definitely high quality and well worth it.
As in Perdido, a very ambitious plot, but the setting is far and away more interesting.

I’m going to Japan and planning takes a lot of time. I’m excited, but it’s also killing me, ‘cos I’m enjoying the book and would really like to finish it.

Not bad. A little confusing for me, since I wasn’t familiar with some of the older characters. Also, I didn’t really understand what Verheiden was trying to do with the book, and only gained an appreciation for it after I understood his intent – without that, it’s just an implausible confusing story. J’onn J’onzz is kinda scary, though.