God, I love this book. A spiritual sequel to American Gods (similar modern-day mythology vibe, less conspiracy theory), Anansi Boys focuses on the spider trickster, Anansi, and his poor son, Fat Charlie. “That’s an Anansi story. ’Course, all stories are Anansi stories. Even this one.” Anansi is a god — a spider god, a trickster god. Anansi was also know as Mr. Nancy, and he was Fat Charlie’s mostly-absent, incredibly embarrassing father. When Mr. Nancy passes away, Fat Charlie finds out from an old family friend that his father […]
Bro. Bro. Bro. Hey, Bro.
Bittersweet ending here, as Matt Fraction’s run on Hawkeye comes to an end, but it’s a good end. It’s been almost a month since I read this, so this review will not be great. Additionally, I read it and five other comics as part of the Dewey’s Read-a-thon, and fading real fast into the night. I was loopy and barely remember most of what I read during that period. But with that disclaimer out of the way, this was a good last volume. The first […]
Eject! Eject Eject Eject! Watch the canopy!
Friends, I can’t do it. I’m throwing in the towel. I got to page 449 of 1000 (1000 pages for this dreck?!) and I’m done. And I’m counting this as a book because the time I wasted on this thing is going to be for something, dammit. For those of you that know the book I made it to Kvothe foiling the poisoning plot on the Maer in Vintas. So once again the brilliant, clever, handsome, talented and wise 16 year old boy wins the […]
History and intrigue and a dash of WTF
I did not do myself any favors waiting so long to review The Serpent Garden, because now what I remember is that this book alternates between being pretty interesting and completely off-the-wall crazy. Let’s start with the good, for which I’ll just refer to the Goodreads summary: “The book opens in Tudor England, where Henry VIII and his Machiavellian counselor Cardinal Wolsey are scheming to put an English heir on the French throne. They are arranging to marry Henry’s pretty, frivolous younger sister, Mary, to […]