Equations of Life is the first in the Metrozone Series, which is also known as the Petrovich series. It was recommended to me by a friend who also enjoys science fiction and fantasy books as suitable for a vacation read. I am not much of a romance reader, and haven’t really found anything breezy to read lately, so took both Equations of Life and Gardens of the Moon with me to the South Pacific. While I started with Gardens of the Moon, once I picked […]
One of those books you press on your friends
It seems like once a year I find a book that I can’t put down because I want to know how it ends, and the minute I finish, I try to find a friend who needs to immediately read this too. This is harder to do with people who read e-books, but you know what I mean. My 2015 edition of that book is Andy Weir’s The Martian. That this book is excellent will come as no surprise to virtually anyone, given it was published […]
Books make the best souvenirs
On my recent trip to New York City, one of the non-negotiable stops on my travels was the Tenement Museum. So much of what I read when I was young was set in a romanticized version of New York, or had characters who dreamed of New York, and a lot of it talked about life in tenements. Having grown up in wide open northern Canada, I have been fascinated by that world nearly my whole life. The museum was great, and had different themes focusing […]
Superhero Noir
Prior to the recent Netflix series starring the delightful Charlie Cox, my only exposure to the character of Daredevil was the truly awful Ben Affleck movie. That movie probably set back the superhero/comic book movie genre by a few years, yeeee. Anyways, the series is just excellent, and so I decided to pick up this Frank Miller trade paperback from the 90s, which expands upon Daredevil’s origin story. I have to admit, I was a bit cynical about it, because Frank Miller gets a lot […]