Stark has saved the world a few times (and will again, no doubt) but still can’t work the coffee machine. Book 6 in the Sandman Slim series ratchets the stakes even higher, when the Angra have a real gambit for getting back at our puny God for stealing their creation and banishing them. Not only that, Stark has to work with Marshal Wells and the Golden Vigil again. I don’t know if there are enough cartons of Maledictions and bottles of Aqua Regia to make […]
“I’d rather be loyal than right.”
I admit that I had no immediate plans of reading the rest of the Finishing School series by Gail Carriger when I finished Etiquette & Espionage. Sure, the book contained all of the wit and witticism one would expect from a Carriger steampunk novel, but it just didn’t grab me the same way Soulless had a few years ago. Well, my friend crystalclear had the book the second ready and waiting and dropped it off for me to read. I’m really rather glad she did. […]
“Odd”, Indeed
Did you know Koontz has written like, seven Odd Thomas books now? I know I’ve read the first two, maybe the third…. So I thought I’d reread the series from the beginning at get myself reacquainted with this…special…young man (especially since my library has the whole series on eBook!) “I’ve since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.” So, Odd Thomas lives up […]
A post-Arthurian allegory on the state of the world
Ishiguro’s newest novel is a brilliant undertaking: on one level, a simple story about an elderly couple seeking lost memories and their long-departed son, on another, it is a post-Arthurian adventure story of knights, dragons, ogres, and bloody warfare, with sly touches of Cervantes, Beowulf, Dante’s Inferno, and other classics thrown in. But ultimately, The Buried Giant is a profound allegory on the state of the world today. The plot begins simply enough in the period following the end of King Arthur’s reign. The wars […]