In the chilling case of the volcanic 1810’s, the global ocean-atmospheric system had not recovered from the cooling effect of the 1809 Unknown event when the colossal eruption of Tambora occurred. The aftermath of this eruption, spanning the second half of the decade stands as the most catastrophic sustained weather crisis of the millennium. From this jumping-off point, Gillen D’Arcy Wood explores a wide range of events precipitated by the eruption of Tambora in April of 1815 and not only in the immediate area of […]
Damnit, Jim
Tommy and Jim are the best of friends. Tommy’s life is one of tumult and violence, mostly at the hands of his drunken, abusive father. When his mother disappears one winter’s day, he and his sister Siri do their best to care for their young twin sisters, while staying out of the way of their fathers angry fists. After one particularly vicious beating Tommy has had enough and takes a bat to his father’s leg, breaking it. Even though everyone in the small village knew […]
allmächtiger!
This, the second collection in Dark Horse’s B.P.R.D. series, features five stories starring Abe Sapien, Liz Sherman, Johan Krause and Roger. As an added bonus, the story “Night Train” has it’s roots in Lobster Johnson’s time. They were originally published as one-shots back in the day when Mike Mignola was in Prague working on the first Hellboy movie. More than the previous collection, this book has more of an “in the spirit of” feeling, as Mike was only directly involved in “The Soul of Venice” and […]
And yet, as we are human, and our species’ greatest achievement is speech, we are never speechless for long
Ms. Oates is clearly ambivalent about the whole memoir process and she takes great pains with this book inparticular to say so. The root of memoir is memory. When memory is cast back decades it is likely to be imprecise as a torn net haphazardly cast that may drag in what is irrelevant as well as miss what is crucial.” Unlike her A Widow’s Story: A Memoir which was taken from her actual journal entries, this is a group of loosely related works. Many have appeared in […]
on the whole I prefer hatred to indifference
“Having had a glass of rum the night before, he decided to order the same again. Actually he ordered two. They were very small glasses.” Poor Maigret is fighting a cold, or maybe even the flu, and it’s making him grumpy. Imagine, downing that rum instead of his beloved beer, he must be ill. The stuffy head and fevers are distracting him, making unraveling this murder case a little harder than it needed to be. He was finishing up with a young man who had beaten […]
Suddenly I wanted very much for the world not to end
Like just about EVERYONE I really liked Ready Player One. But the reviews here and elsewhere were less than glowing when it came to Ernest Cline’s latest, Armada. I figured I’d wait until it came out in paperback or I could borrow a copy or wait for the movie or whatever. At any rate, it wasn’t even on my radar until Audible sent me a reminder that it was available and it was narrated by Wil Wheaton. I so enjoyed Wheaton’s work on Ready Player One ( […]
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