After finishing the 3rd season of AMC’s tv adaptation of Preacher this summer, and then reading the subsequent article on Pajiba about where it may go from here based on clues from the comics, I figured it was a good time to maybe check out Garth Ennis’ books for myself: I am a fan of reading comics from time to time, and this at least has a clear start and finish unlike some other characters with their many many arcs and appearances in other series, […]
My Broken House Behind Me and Good Things Ahead
Today is a good day to review this book. The Mysterious Benedict Society is a book with an intriguing beginning, a suspenseful and funny middle, and a happy end (spoiler, I guess, but it’s also the first book in a series so the I’m sure the happy ending is short-lived). It’s the sort of book you want to read or review during a garbage week like this one. Reynard Muldoon is an orphan. As the only gifted child at his orphanage, he feels out of […]
“What are you, Jackson, the last good man standing?”
Bingo Square: And So It Begins Case Histories is the first in Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie series. He’s a former police inspector turned private eye (with a stint in the army to boot) and there are three main cases he’s involved in within this book. Case 1: The disappearance, over thirty years before, of a three year old girl from her back garden. Case 2: The seemingly random killing of a solicitor’s daughter. Case 3: The murder of a husband by his wife with an axe. […]
Rainbow Rowell is an evil genius
Popular books are popular for a reason – I look a look at the bingo list and I’d read all of them. Which meant I was free to opt for the reread of my choosing! And I chose the Rainbow Rowell book I’d only read once: Attachments Minor quibble: no one ever actually attaches anything. But that’s really my only quibble, so you know this book is damn solid. Okay second quibble. What Lincoln does is really creepy and inexcusable and when Beth does finally get […]