As I confessed in my Sorcerer’s Stone review I haven’t read the series past Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; it is my secret shame but I feel good confessing it and rectifying my mistakes. I have seen Prisoner of Azkaban the most out of all the Harry Potter adaptations because my husband prefers to skip the first two and we usually lose steam in our marathons before getting to Deathly Hallows. Harry escapes from 4 Privet Drive, after exploding his Aunt, and expects to be reprimanded by the Ministry of Magic. Instead […]
Douglas Adams, Terry Gilliam, and Martin Freeman walk into a bar….
I have long wanted to read this, but the sheer number of volumes in the series was intimidating. I started it last year (or the year before) but was put off by the incessant silliness of it all. Which isn’t to say I don’t appreciate silliness, but I do have to be in the mood for it. And to that point, Terry Pratchett’s voice is unmistakable, here. It is equal parts Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Terry Gilliam, with a splash of bumbling charm that Martin […]
I’m pretty sure this interview lasted longer than sundown to sunrise…
According to wikipedia, Anne Rice is an author of “gothic fiction, christian literature, and erotica.” One of these things is not like the other… I know Interview with the Vampire has been around for awhile, after all, I was in high school when Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt played Rice’s vampires, much to her dismay. That was more than *gulp* 20 years ago. But crap, the book is 40 years old people! So if you live under a rock, like me, or you just have […]
“My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.”
Wool is one of the big books that’s been sitting on my bookshelf that I put on my list of goals to finish this year. It’s definitely a long book, and probably a lot longer than it needs to be. I felt that the pacing of the story was a little off but realized about halfway through that it originally had been released in sections, which might explain why. It’s the story of a future civilization that has survived some sort of Apocalypse by living […]