In What Happened to Anna K., Irina Reyn takes the story of Anna Karenina and sets in modern day New York, in the Russian Jewish immigrant community. For the most part it works very well, and even though I knew the broad strokes of the story, I was very interested in seeing how she would make everything work together. After all, would Anna even work as a character in the 21st century? Given the different times, it doesn’t seem like what she did was that […]
No Dwarves Around This Time
Unfortunately, this is actually the fourth novel a mystery series, but it’s the first one available in English. Of course, if it had really bothered me, I could have simply read the first three in German, but let’s be honest, this grabbed my attention because of the title, not because of anything I’d heard of the author. Full review.
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair
While it took me a long time to actually start this series, I was quickly sucked up in it, and have been looking forward to this third release of The Lunar Chronicles. While Cinder, the cyborg Cinderella, is definitely the main character of the series, each book introduces or focuses on a new modernized and reimagined fairy tale heroine. Cress, the story’s Rapunzel, had a brief appearance in Cinder as a Lunar hacker that helps Cinder, but this novel develops on the story of the […]
I’m Only a Decade Behind the Crowd on This
I bought this book such a long time ago because it seemed like everyone had read it. However, I was hesitant to read it because all I knew was that it was about a boy named Pi that was very religious and ended up on a life boat with a tiger. Despite all the hype, I just didn’t feel much desire to read 300 pages of religious musings. Even the movie didn’t give me any motivation or desire to actually read this. However, I’ve been […]
Less Sexism Than I Expected
Yet another selection from class. I wasn’t exactly looking forward to this one though the length was going to be a nice break compared to the rest of the reading list so I was actually pleasantly surprised when I read this. I think what little previous interactions I have had with Rousseau have involved his later work in which he comes off as a sexist, misogynistic ass that romanticizes nature and “man’s natural state” way too much. Imagine my surprise when in this, he states […]
Satanic Rituals, the ’20s and a Haunted House
This is the second ghost story I’ve read by F.G. Cottam though this one was an earlier effort. In some ways the stories have similarities since both deal with things that are haunted as a result of certain satanic rituals in the ’20s. Dark Echo was very good, and displays his maturation as an author, but he didn’t have very far to go from The House of Lost Souls which was also rather good. Full review.
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