The second in the Toby Daye series, A Local Habitation sees her back in the fold, in service once more to Sylvester as one of his Knights and the person he calls in when he needs things handled. Which is what he does when his niece, fairly new ruler of a young fae territory, stops returning his calls. Pitching up at Tamed Lightning (said niece’s territory) with a young apprentice in tow, Toby finds its inhabitants apparently experimenting with all sorts of computing technology whilst […]
If you must wear someone, you could do a lot worse than Deadpool
The second part of my Deadpool birthday swag, Back in Black is set between the moment that the alien symbiote, Venom, abandoned his Spidey-host and before he latched on to Eddie Brock, and spent a while driving Deadpool’s body around instead. To be completely honest, I don’t really know much about the character of Venom besides what I saw in Spidey 3 where it turned Peter Parker into an even bigger douche than Tobey Maguire is in real life. But while Venom doesn’t succeed in […]
“There is an English dream of a warm summer evening on a branch-line train”
I’ve had this sat on my kindle for the longest time – I read Mosquito Coast (and loved it) years ago, and so thought I’d give Theroux’s travel writing a go. Sat on a beach in Portwrinkle on a glorious day, a jaunt around the British coast seemed just the ticket. Having already lived in London for years by that point, Theroux decided to travel clockwise around the British coast as a way of getting to know the country better. Starting at the bottom of […]
And now I want her back catalogue
Although I’ve heard of her, with many of her books on those ‘books you must read before you die’ lists, I’d never read any Joan Didion before. Following this, I’ll definitely be reading her again. A series of essays on elements of American life from the late 60’s to the late 70’s, The White Album documents the death throes of the sixties amidst the Manson murders, where you could often find a complete stranger wandering around your house in LA neighbourhoods gone to seed, meeting […]