I abandoned The Dresden Files after Changes, not because I thought the story got bad or Butcher pissed me off with a story line, I just stopped reading. I thought the story had come to a conclusion I was happy with, and so just didn’t read any further. Perhaps if I’d had Ghost Story immediately after finishing Changes I would have continued, but I didn’t and when Ghost Story was finally released I was happy with the conclusion I’d drawn across the series. However Ingres77 and […]
How do you tell the tale of surviving?
This is my second time through this book, and it’s still as powerful the second time around. The images are haunting and the story is compelling and horrifying and this book really is a masterpiece in the literary and art combination that is comics. Maus is both the story of Vladek Spiegelman, the author’s father, as survived the Holocaust in Poland and the story of Art getting that story from Vladek while dealing with his aging father. It’s a story about survival and survivors guilt. It’s […]
A Peek Into the Diary of a 14 Year Old Girl.
So, on the one hand this, I think, a fairly accurate look into the brain of a 14 year old girl. But on the other, it’s the diary of a fourteen year old teenager. Which is to say that while it’s an extremely believable look into the brain of a British teenager I’m not really sure that I enjoyed that look. Georgia Nicolson starts the book at the end of her summer holidays. She’s a fairly typical teenager and has the typical teenager problems. She […]
A Practical Heroine in a Fairy Tale Wedding
Ursula Vernon writes extremely practical heroines, they simply don’t have time for nonsense when there is danger around. It makes for some extremely humorous situations, and very good story telling. Here, under the pen name T. Kingfisher, she creates a fairytale and gives us the very practical miller’s daughter Rhea as our protagonist. Rhea, is as I said a miller’s daughter, so when a lord asks for her hand in marriage there is very little she or her family can do to deny him. It […]