I saw a Goodreads description or review that called Cantero the heir to the Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams throne. Nope to that. The more I think on it, the more I like This Body’s Not Big Enough For Both Of Us, but it’s not the same level of clever, especially since it’s much more limited in the scope of the allusions. The wordplay of Pratchett is not there, nor is the narrative originality, or at least not original in the same way. Cantero’s pretty direct […]
The magick continues
The detective/noir/occult tale continues! Volume 1 introduced the reader to Rowan Black, Portsmouth Police detective who is also a witch. She has a good relationship with her work partner Morgan and with her friend (lover?) Alexandra Grey, who is also a witch. These relationships are in peril, however, as a series of crimes shows that dark forces are at work, and they are targeting Rowan. The first installment ends with a shadowy group of technologically savvy investigators tracking down Rowan. We cannot yet guess who […]
My First Le Carre
So this book was originally published in the 1960’s I believe. You can tell only a little bit in my opinion. Obviously the technology is very dated, and the way of doing things is a little bit too. It didn’t really bother me though. I got caught up in the action and the stories. George Smiley has a lot of stories. This is the first book where Smiley appears. There’s apparently seven books with him as the main character. I like him. It’s really hard […]
Even Idiots Occasionally Speak the Truth Accidentally.
Whose Body? I discovered Dorothy L. Sayers a few years ago but I have only read a few of her mysteries and all out of order. For this year’s Cannonball, I’m going to attempt to read them all. It’s a bit challenging since the books were originally published during the 1920s. They are popular enough to be easily available in print and ebooks. However my local library doesn’t stock all of them and this is going to get expensive. Luckily like even the worst […]
Harry, stop objectifying the Queen of Air and Darkness. She will END YOU.
This re-read has been a success so far. Weird, but good weird. It was weird revisiting the first three books, which I originally didn’t like enough to continue the series, on audio for the first time. I knew that James Marsters was a huge part of the reason I ended up liking this series so much, but I don’t think I realized just how much until starting this re-read. I liked the first three books more on re-read in large part because I’m invested in […]
“What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? You were sleeping the big sleep.”
The biggest mistake I made when reading this 1939 hardboiled detective classic was that I checked it out from the library. There were so many clever or insightful passages that I wanted to underline but I couldn’t. Since I am a good citizen, I didn’t mark up the library book. Still, I had so much fun reading this one. Even though it’s over seventy-five years old, the book pops with intriguing characters, real danger, and straight razor dialogue. While I don’t have my favorite quotes and […]
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