I’m not sure if Dombey and Son is considered early Dickens. I think it’s the earliest of his books that I like pretty much unreservedly. The early books—Pickwick, Oliver, NickNick, Curiosity Shop aren’t that great, although I am fond of…
Perhaps here would be the appropriate place to attempt a comparison of the books and film adaptations of The Princess Bride and Stardust. Sadly, Your Humble Blogger hasn’t time, or really will. I am starting paid employment today, and although…
Your Humble Blogger happened to see a backstage farce this summer. That play is new, funny, badly constructed, and in need of some serious tweaking. The audiences laughed a lot, which is a good sign, but the review was vicious,…
Your Humble Blogger read The Rebel Angels a couple of months ago in a volume that contained all three novels in the Cornish Trilogy. I didn’t blog it at the time, largely (to my recollection) because I hadn’t finished the…
I reread The Princess Bride just a bit before David Moles brought it up a couple of weeks ago in connection with the Stardust movie. I wasn’t aware of the connection people were making, or I don’t think I was,…
I’m not sure what to say about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. There were several very nice scenes, and some rather dull ones, and a couple of actively annoying ones). One of the things I particularly like about the…
Your Humble Blogger had read Goose Girl a few years ago and enjoyed it, and then forgotten who wrote it. That sort of thing happens a lot. Less so, since I started trying to blog everything I read, so that’s…
All right, so why is it that Your Humble Blogger likes Lord Peter Wimsey, but doesn’t actually like the Lord Peter books very much? The latest reread to disappoint was Clouds of Witness, which wasn’t really bad, but wasn’t particularly…
I had heard very good things about Rashi’s Daughters Book I: Joheved, a historical novel about, well, Rashi and his daughters. And their husbands. It was much, much trashier than I expected it to be. Which was good. Lots of…
Having recently reread both The Curse of Chalion and Paladin of Souls, I thought I may as well finish up and reread The Hallowed Hunt. And so I did. It was fun, a perfectly entertaining book. I don’t have any…