Your Humble Blogger mentioned our bedtime books some time ago. My Best Reader and myself read aloud a book at bedtime, chapter or so a night, most nights. We have been doing this, on and off, for more than ten…
Your Humble Blogger is now five behind in the Book Reports. I’m going to have to pound through them if I’m going to catch up before taking what I’m guessing will be a week-long blogging break for Thanksgiving. I may…
Well, and Your Humble Blogger has fallen behind in Book Reports again. This is, in part, because our computer is suffering from extreme slowness these days, which appears to be the standard for Windows, where after two years so much…
Black Brillion is a pretty good book, not great, flawed, but fun and inventive. It’s a mishmash of genres—the mismatched pair of cops, the witty banter, the deep and symbolic Jungian philosophy, the mystery, the trippy anything-goes far future fantasy,…
And, as mentioned before, I read A Flea in Her Ear, to see if it would be a good idea to stage. Enh. I read the John Mortimer adaptation; perhaps one of the others is funnier. I doubt it, somehow….
For those Gentle Readers who really care, the play referred to previously which saw Your Humble Blogger back on the boards is The Man Who Came to Dinner, and it is not too late to see it. Email me if…
It hasn’t mentioned it here (this Tohu Bohu is, on the whole, reticent about the personal life), but Your Humble Blogger was in a local Community Theater production. Community Theaters being what they are, toward the end of the rehearsal…
I must admit, when I heard that Jasper Fforde’s next book was going to be a re-written version of his unpublished first novel, I was not terribly excited about it. I mean, I am a bit tired of Thursday Next,…
I must admit, when I heard that Jasper Fforde’s next book was going to be a re-written version of his unpublished first novel, I was not terribly excited about it. I mean, I am a bit tired of Thursday Next,…
The discussion group Your Humble Blogger mentioned previously is more or less going on with the Chrestomanci books, although very quietly. Anyway, I re-read The Magicians of Caprona and Witch Week which comprise The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume II. Caprona…