I thought, maybe it’s the fantasy that’s hamstringing Goodkind. Maybe freed from the fetters he can do something new. But ol’ Terry don’t let us down. He wrote the same story, chock full of his objectivist claptrap and hamfisted romantic blather. It’s even worse without magic. And this one even kind of has magic. It’s One Flew Over The Fountainhead.
Who Knows If Clark Kent is A Superman? Or If He’s Just An A–hole
The prolific Sanderson has started his own young adult series. A mysterious star appears in the sky over earth, giving superhuman powers to certain folks, who become Epics. And the Epics are ASSHOLES. They quickly claim cities as their own fiefdoms and only a small group of resistance called The Reckoners can stop them. It’s an excellent series full of charm if at times a little TOO kitschy quirk.
That gif, tho
Malin reviewed The Hook Up a few days ago and made it sound pretty irresistible. And then she made it harder to resist by sending me a copy. She is a good person and will surely be rewarded in whatever afterlife happens, or maybe next year, who knows. When I started to read the book, I came across a moment with Anna (our female protagonist) and her best friend Iris in which Anna mentions she has this gif (->) on her computer. Any one who […]
The Larger Risk
I’ve long depended on Granta to push me out of my comfort zone and have always loved the format. It’s a quarterly collection of new writing — fiction, nonfiction, poetry — with some amazing photojournalism thrown in as well. I’m consistently drawn to the idea of a program or publication striving to put many different lenses on a single theme. Although some themes are more relatable than others — for many readers, Granta‘s “Mothers” issue may be slightly more accessible than, say, the “Pakistan” issue — I always enjoy each issue. A […]