I actually Double Cannonballed this sonnuvabitch a little less than a month ago, that’s how behind I am in reviews. But I’m glad I did it with this book, which is one I picked up due to curiosity, and ended up really enjoying despite a near certainty that I wouldn’t. There were so many red flags here. It’s YA. It’s buzzy. The male and female protagonists were obviously meant to fall in love against insurmountable odds. The setup of the worldbuilding indicated a tired hodgepodge […]
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
I swear I thought I read this book, I have not. I really honestly and truly do not know how a story I know so well, with lines I quote all the time, could have snuck past me. I blame the movie. And the television show. And pop culture? I don’t know. But this has all been solved because now I have read it. Or Stephen Fry read it to me and it was delightful. For anyone else who may have missed this one, here’s […]
You Can Go Home Again
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (2006) – Sometimes you have to pick up a book you loved from your childhood just to restore your faith in good literature (or what you considered good). A Wrinkle in Time, Canticle for Leibowitz, Moon of Three Rings, any of the Zenna Henderson stuff are all childhood friends of mine. I hadn’t read Something Wicked since I was a kid, and I was a little afraid it wasn’t as good as I remembered or perhaps hadn’t […]
It was a dark and stormy nightmare
“Looking back, the process of coming up with the Lord of Dreams seems less like an act of creation than one of sculpture: as if he were already waiting, grave and patient, inside a block of white marble, and all I needed to do was chip away at everything that wasn’t him.”—Neil Gaiman in the Afterword of Preludes and Nocturnes I really shouldn’t have been worried that this book, and (hopefully) this series, wasn’t going to stand the test of time. I was blown away, […]