I am not sure why, of all the recent books I’ve read, this one made me so angry. Especially that by all account it is not the worst book I’ve read recently, just possibly the laziest! Just a quick background, to those who are not familiar with the book, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries was a 2012 transmedia project which was a modernize version of Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice. It was (at least in my opinion) one of the better (if not the best) recent […]
What is your narrative?
Boss Fight Book’s Baldur’s Gate II, is an analysis of the classic RPG game by writer Matt Bell. It is part of a series of non-fiction books dedicated to the analysis of video games artifacts by creators, developers writers and players. The series is kind of a mixed bag. The concept is great, a series of book which try to analyze video games and the creation of games from different point of view, and it just tickles my game developer/academic sensibility. unfortunately it always feels […]
Beauty & The Beast & Cowboys
After some extensive research of the free books section in iBook I managed to separate the books into the following categories: 50 shades wannabes Surprisingly good Regency romance An occasional classic (usually Pride & Prejudice) Contemporary romance involving a kindergarten teacher and a billionaire Contemporary romance involving a kindergarten teacher and a sexy service man Contemporary cowboy stories Historical cowboy stories (usually involving a mail order bride) The Accidental Mail Order Bride, unsurprisingly, belongs to the last category and was mostly chosen because it had […]
Why I shouldn’t review books about the city I grew up in
This was a hard review to write Jerusalem, is a graphic novel chronicling the year Guy Delisle spent living in Jerusalem while his partner worked as an aid worker in the west bank and Gaza. I am the worst person to review this book! Not because of any specific political leaning (I am a good old dirty leftist), but because I spent 20 of my 34 years of my life living there and my experience taints my impression of the book. I’ve been strangely home […]