End of Watch. Once again, I’m sorry to say that there’s not much good to be said about this one. It’s a real downer, and I waited several weeks after I read it to write this review, because I didn’t want to ruin it for anyone. Problem is, I also don’t want to have to reread it, and unlike some other books, my head doesn’t want to hold on to it. My major issues were how irritating it was that King returned to drugging people […]
Wash, rinse, repeat.
Evan Marshall is a paleo-ecologist for Northern Massachusetts University. He’s participating in an Alaskan excavation north out the Arctic Circle, where a smilodon has been found preserved in ice on a cave. The science team has corporate sponsors, and they send in a documentary team to shoot the unveiling. Only, as it turns out, that’s not a saber-toothed tiger in the ice…… Much of this novel revolves around the conflict between the science team and the director of the documentary, Emilio Conti, who is a […]
He told the tale as he believed it.
I can’t tell if I liked the music scenes/parts of this novel. I really can’t, maybe because I just don’t care about the rapture of live music that much or more to the point, the times I have felt it, I don’t think I would have enjoyed reading about it. It’s a sui generis experience captured in a singular moment and so a description of it automatically loses the magic of it. I can’t think of something much more impossible to describe than this. However, […]
As Spooky As Ever: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
We Have Always Lived in the Castle is an amazing, unsettling book. It is a tale told by a fanciful and unreliable but fascinating narrator, Mary Katherine Blackwood, or Merricat, as her older sister Constance calls her. Merricat and Constance and their Uncle Julian and Merricat’s cat Jonas live in Blackwood House, on top of the hill overlooking a small and small-minded village. The author Shirley Jackson was a master of the macabre and creepy. Her short story “The Lottery” continues to haunt schoolchildren every year, […]