I read many more books than I review, on Amazon and in the pages of the Scribbler, and lately that’s become the norm. I keep reading, but I keep being disappointed. And it’s not just the Indie, DIY novels, but the Big Publisher ones, as well.
I keep running across some of the latter which are more afflicted by PC- and New York Liberal-sensibility and hack, anything-that-will-sell writing than usual. And some of the former are not so much damaged by the alleged grammar and spelling errors of Big Publishing’s mockery as by stories that crash-and-burn long before the end—done in by errors of craft, plot- and character-development.
Oh, well. I am committed. And my Kindle makes it easy and cheap. Onward through the fog.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
That’s pretty much why I got into SF again after 25 years of ignoring it. At least the characters are fresh(er), and I can pick and choose from three decades.
I’m about halfway through Knoxville, by the way. Pretty good read, but I’m ready for some action.
I’m reading Greg Bear SF, “Darwin’s Children,” at the moment. Good story, though it irritates me that when it comes to political and media “bad guys” he chose the Republicans and Fox News.
Sometimes I think Big Publishing is run by the Democrat party.
Didn’t the old masters, like Heinlein, skewer ALL parties and media, not just one or the other?
Thanks for the read. Action’s coming, I do assure you. Heh.
I can use another review. I’m having mixed luck getting new ones at the moment.
I’ll crank one out after I finish. My reading is so slow these days, sorry. I’ve just got a million things to do, and only 17 hours to do them.
Appreciate it. I know what you mean.
Reading, parenting, housekeeping/cooking and working on a non-fiction book on radar–which takes more research than even Civil War fiction.