This afternoon it was hot as blazes out and the kids wanted to go to the park. So first, we stopped at the library, and I picked up this slim, little volume. I read the entire thing while they ran around, and am now thinking about heading back to the library so I can get my hands on Hanff’s “sequel,” The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street. Helene Hanff tells a simple story through letters that she exchanged with a Frank Doel, a book dealer in London. […]
The McVegemite Crapwich
Holy crap, Oz gots itself a sequel! And with a different author, who didn’t nuke the fridge and restart from scratch! Anyway, in the latest cash hustle, the Australia offices of Private face down two major crimes — a baby kidnapping they might have been partly complicit in, and the disappearance of a CEO. Completely, off the grid, and all public records and internet files. It limps along like someone finishing off a book of MadLibs long after they stopped being funny.
Well, That Sucked. JOKE GRENADE.
Bleh. A novel concept — The Order of the Sanguines involves a race of vampire priests that survive by drinking consecrated wine, the Blood of Christ, and thus allowing them to be daywalkers. Of course, that all gets subverted by terribly overwrought characters who are boring as…well, vampire and zombie stories. Thankfully, this last overblown crapfest puts a stake in the heart of the vampire series once and for all.
Graphic & Novel
Decided to check out these two epilogues to the original Shannara trilogy. Indomitable tells of Jair Ohmsford tracking down a single surviving page of the Ildatch and destroying it using the power of Garet Jax. The Dark Wraith of Shannara is a graphic novel. Which I usually don’t count in my reads, even though I read a crap ton of them. Dark Wraith combines Indomitable with another adventure. Kind of DLC to the original trilogy, but ultimately satisfying. Except the artwork in Dark Wraith makes everyone […]