I am embarrassed to say, I just realized at 43 what Winnie the Pooh is all about. Sure, it is about friends, adventures, silliness and honey, but reading Christopher Robin: A Boy, a Bear a Balloon I realized what it all means. The characters are the emotions and thoughts and feelings of a child. Who is not scared sometimes (Piglet) or bouncy (Tigger) or a Know-it-All (Rabbit and Owl) or gloomy and needs cheering up (Eeyore)? And not having seen the movie yet (as […]
I was not embarrassed to read these on the train
The Paper Magician, The Glass Magician, The Master Magician It is the early 1900s, that much is apparent, with the use of telegraphs transitioning into the telephone and automobiles on the roads. Or is it apparent? There is magic here, so things may have developed at different rates. The premise is that there is magic in man-made materials, but in order to wield it you have to bond to it, so people can only use one kind of magic. That part I get, but that […]
Parts of this made me angry
This review is full of spoilers. Sorry. And foul language. Also sorry. Gracelings are people who have a special ability, and they are identified by having two different colored eyes. Someone could have a Grace for cooking, or swimming, or dancing. Katsa learns at a very young age that she has the Grace of killing. So her uncle, King Randa, uses her as his personal executioner, starting from when she is just 10 years old. As she gets older and more of a mind […]
Finally reading a book I was given for book exchange!
So, as a running theme, this was not what I thought it was going to be. I don’t know what I was expecting, but it wasn’t quite this. There are three kinds of people in this world. (Hey, that’s kind of familiar…) We have normal people, full vampires, and Colds, or people who have been bitten by a vampire but have not yet turned. In order to become a vampire, one must be infected with the vampirism by a bite and then drink human […]
The start of a very weird series
So I was going along, listening to the book, and it was all fine, and then all of a sudden, I came to a realization. “Wait a minute, this is JESUS!” Yes, this all seems to boil down to a second coming of Christ (or Christ-like character.) (Or something to do with Mormons. I’m not sure.) This is an alternate history of Frontier era of America. From what I quickly read of the introduction before I started, I knew there would be some differences, […]
Awesome, but not my favorite Drew Hayes
And so we embark on another journey into the strange world that is Drew Hayes’ imagination. How this guy can come up with so many different, yet complete universes boggles the mind. This one is similar, on paper at least, to his Super Powereds universe. But it’s very different in some very key ways. Like in Super Powereds, we have people with abilities. These people are called metahumans, or metas. Metas can be formed in different ways. They can gain powers during an accident […]
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