The Book of M is the first book by Peng Shepherd and it’s hard to classify. It’s sort of fantasy due to there being some magic. It’s kind of science fiction as it examines the human condition in a near future where human civilization has collapsed. It is definitely dystopian, see previous sentence about the collapse of human civilization. And urban in the sense that a good chunk of the book happens in urban centers. It has romantic themes as two of the main characters […]
“I can’t be less of a hero than a spoon!”
This was my other drunken audiobook choice from my library’s wine tasting. It had a cool title, and then I saw David Tennant was reading, so I grabbed it! The language is very clever, or maybe it just seems so with David Tennant reading it. (And he has to sing at one point, and he’s using a sprite voice, and I don’t think he enjoyed that part.) A long time ago, before England was England, there was a great forest from sea to sea. And […]
Drunk book choices are the best book choices
So I brought fantingviolet to my library’s annual wine tasting, because my library is awesome like that. With the advent of the self-checkout feature on their app, we get the lovely combination of drunken book selections! We were drinking in the children’s section (being the youngest group at the wine tasting) and so I was able to peruse the lovely selection. I picked up the audiobook of Kenny and the Dragon, because it looked interesting. After I chose it, I realized that it was narrated […]
Not-very good men do not very good things
In Ferguson’s reading guide to this novel he mentions that he was heartbroken while writing this novel and this statement both surprised me and not surprised me. It starts out as a simple tale of two friends, an incident at a river and then drifting apart. Then there’s two Americans who start a religion and it seems destined that all the tales will intertwine. They do, but not in any satisfactory way. This is not a pleasant novel. It is filled with not-very good men […]