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Book Review     What makes her book so great is that she's a
pretty terrific writer herself. The author of multiple fantasy
and alternate-history novels, Walton has won both the Hugo and
Nebula Awards for "Among Others" (2012), one of the most bookish
great science fiction and fantasy, or SFF, novels ever.  What
makes her book so great is its focus on reading, or rereading,
older books, whether a few years older or many decades older.
specifically asked her to write about older books in a blog
series that began in 2008; the 130 essays here come from that
blog. Her opinions and enthusiasm stand apart from the product-
selling-urgency that often seems inherent in discussions of new
books.  What makes Walton's book so great is that she seems to
have read everything, from books even casual SFF readers will
have heard of, including George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and
Fire," Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Left Hand of Darkness" and
Octavia E. Butler's "Kin