May my poem pass like a breeze through the sedge by the Styx, its singing bringing solace, lull to sleep those who wait. ***MONDO SPOILERS HERE***** Erlendur is off in the east, where he grew up and where his brother was lost out on the moors during a terrible storm. He periodically goes out and hikes the area, looking for a sign of Bergur’s fate. While he is there this time, he also comes across the tale of another disappearance involving a woman lost in a […]
a patch of clear blue sky
As in the last novel in the Inspector Erlendur series, Erlendur is nowhere to be found. Covering the same period in time as the last book, this focuses on Sigurdur Oli. While he did pitch in a time or two with Elinborg’s big case, he is actually working something completely different and in his own way. While attending a school reunion where he is made to feel inferior to his old more “successful” schoolmates, Patrekur takes him aside and asks him a favor. When they meet up […]
Everybody has a secret world inside of them
It turns out that everyone truly does have a secret world or worlds inside them, it’s just that they all aren’t that interesting. This installment in The Sandman graphic novel series by Neil Gaiman was a bit of a slog for me. I just can’t care about or connect with Barbie and by extension her worlds. Some of the characters were interesting or great to see again, like Hazel and Foxglove and the irrepressible Wanda. Barbie’s dreamworld is under attack by the Cuckoo, who is […]
The silence is unbearable
This book in the Inspector Erlendur series by Arnaldur Indridason doesn’t even have Erlendur in it. I see that’s why later covers of his novels bear the subheading ” A Reykjavik Thriller” rather than “An Inspector Erlendur Novel”. But no matter, the absence of Erlendur is explained, as at the end of the last one he had set off to the east of Iceland to once again go in search of his brother. Though we do learn near the end of this installment that he […]