I continue my reviews of William Gibson’s novels at my blog, The Recliner. This time around: Virtual Light.

https://www.the-recliner.com/the-thirty-third-book-of-2026-virtual-light-by-william-gibson/

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After a highly satisfying weekend spent in the company of other writers at this year’s Write On The Sound conference in Edmonds, WA (that’s Washington, not Western Australia), I managed to crank out a book review of Mick Herron’s “The Secret Hours”!

https://www.the-recliner.com/the-thirty-second-book-of-2026-the-secret-hours-by-mick-herron/

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I finish my reviews of William Gibson’s first three novels with Mona Lisa Overdrive, up on the blog at www.the-recliner.com

https://www.the-recliner.com/the-thirty-first-book-of-2026-mona-lisa-overdrive-by-william-gibson/

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OK, I admit it…Count Zero is better than Neuromancer. See my review at The Recliner.

https://www.the-recliner.com/the-thirtieth-book-of-2026-count-zero-by-william-gibson/

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On the eve of the premier of season six of Slow Horses on Apple TV, my review of Mick Herron's novel London Rules is live!

https://www.the-recliner.com/the-twenty-ninth-book-of-2026-london-rules-by-mick-herron/

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Family can be SUCH a pain. Get hints of how much it complicates the lives of the UK's most unwelcome spies in my review of Mick Herron's *Spook Street.*

https://www.the-recliner.com/the-twenty-eighth-book-of-2026-spook-street-by-mick-herron/

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@ivory I don't know if you guys are back to development yet (sorry to hear about the cancer diagnosis last year!) but I have two feature requests for Ivory on Mac: (1) have Cmd-left arrow take me back from a particular toot's reply thread to the home feed, and (2) let the space bar take me down through a toot's replies. In other words, have Ivory act a little more like a browser. I don't like having to use the mouse for everything.

Other than those two irritating things, Ivory is a great product.

Oh, goody! The 27th book review of 2027 is up at The Recliner. Keeping on with my Slow Horses reviews with "Real Tigers, where our favorite ne’er do well secret agents get into trouble in their usual non-secret ways.

https://www.the-recliner.com/the-twenty-seventh-book-of-2026-real-tigers-by-mick-herron/

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Here's my review of the 26th book of 2026, Mick Herron's Dead Lions. Can a spy novel be fun? See what I think.

https://www.the-recliner.com/the-twent/

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Yo, my review of the 25th book of 2026, William Gibson's Neuromancer, is live on The Recliner.

Sorry not sorry, this may ramble a little...I'm a crazed Gibson fanboi.

https://www.the-recliner.com/the-twenty-fifth-book-of-2026-neuromancer-by-william-gibson/

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August has been a mess for my reading, but may herald a new direction for my writing. It's all @Catvalente's fault. Check out the saga on my blog!

https://www.the-recliner.com/august-has-been-a-bit-of-a-mess-for-reading/

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I've posted my review of my 24th book of 2026, "Descendants" by Richard Helmling.

https://www.the-recliner.com/the-twenty-fourth-book-of-2026-descendants-by-richard-helmling/

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Thursday's Frazz comic strip for you (and Odin)

https://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2026/08/13

Just to keep you on your toes, here's another book review: Mick Herron's Slow Horses, the first book in the Slough House series. I love this stuff.

https://www.the-recliner.com/the-twenty-third-book-of-2026-slow-horses-by-mick-herron/

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My review of A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages, by J.R.R. Tolkien, Dimitra Fini and Andrew Higgins, is up on my blog, The Recliner. Check it out at https://www.the-recliner.com/the-twenty-second-book-of-2026-a-secret-vice-by-j-r-r-tolkien-dimitra-fini-and-andrew-higgins/

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My 21st book review of 2026, Agatha Christie's "Peril At End House," is up at my blog, The Recliner.

https://www.the-recliner.com/the-twenty-first-book-of-2026-the-peril-at-end-house-by-agatha-christie/

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My review of my 20th book of the year, The Meaning of Everything, is live at my blog.

https://www.the-recliner.com/the-twentieth-book-of-2026-the-meaning-of-everything-the-story-of-the-oxford-english-dictionary-by-simon-winchester/

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Just published my review of an old but interesting home computer book, Frank Herbert's "Without Me You're Nothing" (yes, *that* Frank Herbert). He had some interesting things to say that still resonate today.

https://www.the-recliner.com/the-nineteenth-book-of-2026-without-me-youre-nothing-by-frank-herbert-with-max-barnard/

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Two new book reviews up, one for Alix Harrow's "The Once and Future Witches" and on for Mary Ladd Gavell's "I Cannot Tell A Lie, Exactly."

Both good reviews of good books, because I usually don't finish bad books.

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https://www.the-recliner.com/the-seventeen-book-of-2026-the-once-and-future-witches-by-alix-e-harrow/

https://www.the-recliner.com/the-eighteenth-book-of-2026-i-cannot-tell-a-lie-exactly-by-mary-ladd-gavell/

Everything <waves hands madly> is making writing very hard.

But I'm reading a ton. Here are two fresh book reviews: A short one of a short book (the newest Murderbot) and a long one of a long book (Ada Palmer's Inventing the Renaissance).

https://www.the-recliner.com/the-fifteenth-book-of-2026-the-murderbot-diaries-platform-decay-by-martha-wells/

https://www.the-recliner.com/the-sixteenth-book-of-2026-inventing-the-renaissance-the-myth-of-a-golden-age-by-ada-palmer/

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