I would have expected Mortal Engines to be right up my alley. I mean, airships, post-nuclear wasteland, wild skiffy machines, sentimental cyborg assassins, art historians with guns. And, in fact, I liked it a lot. Somehow, though, I didn’t feel…
So this time through rereading The Curse of Chalion it occurred to me that Ian McKellen would be perfect to play Umegat, the old groom/priest/saint/troublemaker. I found myself going over his dialogue in McKellen’s voice, trying different ways he might…
I was given The Confessions of Max Tivoli by my Best Reader, who was under the impression that it was one of those specfic-marketed-as-mainstream books like The Time-Traveler’s Wife which I liked so much. It turns out not to be….
I must have been in high school when I first read Terra!, by Stefano Benni, and thought it was the Greatest. Thing. Evar. Well, we didn’t say Greatest. Thing. Evar. in those days. It was before the Simpson. Yes, yes,…
Your Humble Blogger has been hearing wonderful things about Martin McDonagh’s plays for some years now, but had never got around to reading any of them. Or, you know, going and seeing one, which would involve leaving the house, so…
Your Humble Blogger has once again reread Memory rather than either completing any of the three books I’ve begun or starting any of the shelf-full of books I’ve been meaning to start. It’s not a bad thing. It’s probably better…
I had heard good things about Beware of Gd, the book of short stories by Shalom Auslander, and picked the book up at my local library. Not the local public library, but the library at Temple Beth Bolshoi. Now, I…
So. Having enjoyed Drowned Wednesday, YHB had been looking forward to Sir Thursday. Then it came out, last spring I suppose, and I didn’t know about it. Digression: Neither of our two local library branches have a New Books shelf…
I had purchased Princess Academy at a school fund-raising book sale—on of those Scholastic things that have good prices, make money for the school, and get kids excited about books—the bastards—back in the autumn sometime, and never got around to…
So, the last time YHB read Old Man’s War, the discussion was about the power of internet marketing. I said that I enjoyed reading John Scalzi’s Whatever, which led me to think that I might enjoy his novel. On the…