1899. On a ship bound for New York in the middle of the Atlantic, a Golem comes to life. Soon after, her master and sole reason for living, dies. A little ways across the water, a Jinni turned human emerges from more than a thousand years of captivity in a flask in the shop of a tinsmith in lower Manhattan, thousands of miles away from his home in the Syrian desert. Both are out of time and out of place. Who are they in such […]
Pratchett takes on Shakespeare
As the cauldron bubbled an eldritch voice shrieked:
The start of the coolest witch in Discworld
I only started reading the Discworld series a few years ago. I was up late at night, trying to think of things to buy for my new Kindle, and faced with the problem I always have when shopping for entertainment: What in the hell am I supposed to buy? All ideas tend to run from me in that situation, which explains some of my past purchases made completely out of desperation. But anyway
Farandola? I barely know ya!
You know how you have a book from your childhood that you cherish that made a real impact on you and you decide to finally read the sequel as an adult and you’re left disappointed? It’s kind of like that.
The Lions of Al-Rassan
A bout of insomnia the night before last made me pick up this book and give it another read. It had been long enough that I forgot most of the details of the plot, and I found it an enjoyable and easy read. I gave it 4 stars. Review is here:
We Open at the Close…
I’m not sure why it took me so long to finish Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series, after the first volume grabbed my attention and imagination so thoroughly. But slowly, as I read through more instalments, I saw that the series was scattered with highs and lows. The tenth and final volume, The Wake, is a somber affair, regarding the events immediately following the “death,” of Morpheus, the Lord of Dreaming. But just like Despair before him, his death is more of a regeneration, if you will, […]