Two or three years ago, The Chancellor showed me the HBO film Angels in America, and I was intrigued, saddened, and deeply moved all at once. And then PBS aired a special of the UK’s National Theatre performances, which included a scene of Dominic Cooper and Andrew Scott (Moriarty!) performing a scene from the play. The special made me really curious about all the contemporary American and British plays out there–we’ve all read Tennessee Williams and Eugene O’Neill and Tom Stoppard, so I thought it […]
He can see the women before they’re dead
So the murderer in this book is a sicko. He tortured and killed his wife thirty years ago, and she apparently haunts him around the summer solstice. He’s part of a cult that follows the teachings from a book that a dude decided to make up one year. It’s supposed to be based on ancient Mayan rituals, but literally, a guy made it up. So this sicko somehow figured out that if he murders a woman, surgically removes her heart, and eats it, his dead […]
If Alice in Wonderland and Finding Nemo had a Love Child
Graphic novels. They are, to quote Star Trek, a new frontier. I know what they are, a few I’ve actually read, but a ton I want to just go totally hermit with and read and shut the world out. Sadly, I do have to work and pay the bills. As I’ve lately been prone to do, I was perusing my library’s graphic novel section when I came across a title I have seen a few times before and decided I needed something I would enjoy […]
Seat-Gripping Story
Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson in the Shades of London series is about a girl named Rory who moves to London from Louisiana. Her parents send her to boarding school while they are in Bristol, a town close by. But, just as Rory reaches London there is a murderer on the loose, mimicking the fierce Jack the Ripper, a murderer in London history who killed in a specific way. The modern day Ripper strikes on the exact day, time, and location. Even though […]