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A little Harry Potter humor
What if his given name had been Joey Jones? I doubt he would have turned to evil. On the other side of the coin, had his given name been Walter Quimby Zoroaster Xavier Isringhausen, he probably would never have done … Continue reading
Twenty-two shades of Crap
I have zero intention of reading Fifty Shades of Grey, because…well, life’s just too short, and I already read Twilight. But Kerry read it and reports. A sampler of her opinions on this book: 2) Her catch phrase, the thing … Continue reading
“Words are wind.” (or, Please take your time, George. As much as you need.)
Oh my good Lord. I tried, folks. I really tried. I’ve wanted so much to love A Song of Ice and Fire as much as everybody else does. And after the fairly soul-crushing experience that was slogging my way through … Continue reading
A to Z: Zany!
Hey, I made it! It’s the end of the A-to-Z Challenge. Let’s look at some Zaniness, shall we? According to this site, the word ‘zany’ was first used in English by none other than William Shakespeare, although its origins are … Continue reading
Some recent comics reading
Catching up on some notes about some stuff I’ve read over the last few months, in this case, comics…. :: I recently read in its entirety the comic book series Air, by G. Willow Wilson and M.K. Perker. It’s a … Continue reading
A to Z: Villains
A good adventure tale needs a lot of things: a hero or two or three or four, a problem for them to solve, long odds, improbably escapes from certain doom, high stakes if they fail…and a Villain. It’s often said … Continue reading
Oh yeah, “Maximum Overdrive” wasn’t a book
All sixty-two (at this moment) of Stephen King’s books, ranked. I’ve read nowhere near all of his work, and I don’t plan to…King himself admits that he can be uneven. My first King book (in 1998, after an attempt to … Continue reading
A to Z: Trains
There’s some part of me that thinks that no matter how far in the future we get, no matter how awesome the spaceships or starships we build, there’s a degree to which human transportation will never exceed railroads for romance, … Continue reading
A to Z: Old People of Wisdom
Gandalf. Loren Silvercloak. Mrs. Potts. Obi Wan Kenobi. Boothby the gardener. Sarek. T’Lar. Dumbledore and McGonagall. The Oracle. Jor-El. Maester Aemon. Mrs. Landingham. And, of course, Merlin. What do all these folks have in common? They are Old People of … Continue reading
“Who are you?” “No one.” “A lie.”
God, what a slog. I was really hoping that my original impression of this novel, way back when, wouldn’t hold true this time around. When I first read Feast, it had been a few years since I’d read A Storm … Continue reading