This is quite a charming little site, with some interesting posts and some nice photos. There are plenty of useful links scattered around the place as well, so the focus isn’t totally on the author’s life.
Design wise, the colour scheme is a little haphazard; plenty of colours are used but the site lacks an overall scheme. It also looks a little disjointed because of all the white space around the sides, and the site logo at the bottom doesn’t fit with the rest of the design.
The navigation is frames-based, which seems an unusual decision because the links within the site are all text-only, and the frame itself is too big to be devoted to such a small amount of material. The different sections of the site could easily have been grouped together so as to make it seem like each one had more content: the book reviews could have been grouped with the writings section, and it seems strange to have both “info” and “bio” pages, when they too could have been combined. The end result is that it appears as though there is less content here than there really is.
Other than that though the site looks very good, with some interesting photographs at the top of every page adding that little bit of detail that would otherwise have been lacking.
Outside of the blog there are a couple of areas worth a look: book reviews (there are only a couple so far), and various other writings (including a piece about the Final Fantasy movie that raises some clever points).
This is a good blog with a reasonable balance between posts and off-blog material, with only a few design problems. Worth visiting all the same.Floue