My adventures in short story reading continue, and I’ve reached the point where I’m convinced they aren’t for me. Not even the glorious, melodious Neil Gaiman reading his own collection, M is for Magic, to me could do the trick. I appear to be broken in some way. That’s not to say that there aren’t good stories in this collection. There are several that are quite good, just not good enough to round the collections overall rating up from a 3 star. The stories in […]
Certain destinations are inevitable
Ah, the late eighties/early nineties. I was all about the Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus, the Cure and the Vertigo line of comics. My favorites were the Neil Gaiman Sandman series and Mike Carey’s Lucifer. Reading Carey’s new novel The Girl With All the Gifts (The gift is this astonishing book) made me want to dive back into that world. But would it be as good as I remember? Would the passage of time and life experience enhance or hinder this experiment? Then I decided I was […]
Cannot wait for Season Two!
Okay, well I guess season two premiered last night, but we were watching Horrible Bosses 2 on HBO, so hopefully I’ll be catching up tonight. I read the original Strain book a year or two before they adapted it into a show, but never got around to reading the other two (even though I did like it). I really liked the first season — they did a good job adapting it and it’s so wonderfully over-the-top and gross — and I always like reading a book before […]
Glamming up Austen
For the record, I enjoyed this book and plan to read the rest of the series. For all its promise and the glowing reviews and recommendations, I was expecting a lot more. The comparison to Jane Austen is apt, and there are pretty clear references to several of her novels in the characters and plot. The addition of glamour magic as an everyday social skill provides a way to make the old Austen formulas new and interesting. The story follows Jane Ellsworth who is well […]