I guess I just don’t like Libba Bray’s Diviners series. It should be awesome, a Prohibition era X-Men of sorts. But two things just kill it for me. One, the goddamn slang. She douses it like a teen girl mixing cocktails. It’s like James Joyce if everyone were talking like Mr. Burns. I can’t handle it. Two, she checklists everything like she’s filling out a Which Wich bag — Asian, black, gay, sexually assaulted, social anarchists, interracial relationship. If there were depth, it’d be one […]
Loses Some Bang By The End
Apparently, McClellan wrote six OTHER short stories about the Powder Mage series. Whoops! Each covers one of the major characters, or fleshes out the histories. The best two are the ones that deal with Erika, Tamas’s wife who was murdered by Duke Nikslaus, Forsworn and Servant of the Crown. As they get closer to the actual series, they get less involved and less intriguing.
I see all my dreams come tumbling down I can’t be happy without you around
I picked this memoir up when I got Caitlin Moran’s hilarious and mortifying How to Build a Girl last fall, but then it got shuffled to the bottom of the towering pile(s) of Must Read Next books. I can’t even remember why I got this in the first place. I didn’t even know who Ms. Albertine was. Was I just cruising Amazon and buying Random Memoirs By Brassy British Chicks? Sigh. Thanks, Merlot! Befitting the music motif, this book is set up like an album, […]
This is my Cannonball, and I’ll make it all about me if I want to.
Welcome to a long, rambling review that’s all about me. My love affair with the Boston Red Sox began when I was super young. One of my very first memories is of my parents leaving me with a babysitter so that they could go to the World Series game (you know, the one where Carlton Fisk hit that home run) and they brought me home a hat. I loved that damn hat. And I loved that team, even though they completely bungled the series and […]