When I was a child, two of the most influential people in my life were my grandparents. I loved them with every fiber of my being. They were a stable rock in my unsteady and turbulent adolescent life. They provided me with the idea of the kind, loving Christian home I wanted for myself. One might even say I idolized them a bit. My grandma died ten years ago, and in the three weeks before her death, I found out a family truth that shattered […]
More Dream, more weirdness, we all win.
After my deep enjoyment of Dream Country, I worried that I wouldn’t enjoy anything as much as that “Midsummer Night’s Dream” episode. But seriously, that’s foolishness on my part. Neil is a great writer, and I should just trust him, right? Right. While this serial was not my favorite in the series, I did find the enhancement of Dream’s personal narrative to be a worthy one. I think that it complicated the series and Dream himself. This volume seems to connect to Dream’s larger story […]
A series of unconnected dreams
I’ve really been enjoying Neil Gaiman’s Sandman graphic novel series, and this installment was no different. While the narrative did not necessarily build on the previous saga, I did enjoy the episodic tales told throughout this collection. I think that Gaiman is a master storyteller, and his short episodes help build up the nature and character of Morpheus/Dream. This time, Dream Country sees Dream in a series of seemingly unrelated stories that are each fascinating, frustrating, or horrifying. “Calliope” follows frustrated writer Richard Madoc who […]
Auntie Una wrote a book! Sans fishnet tights and pervy Uncle Jeffrey!
If you’re anything like me, you like British movies with sassy old ladies or gay men of any age (basically, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel was like my mothership). And therefore, you too will know who Celia Imrie is and gasp in delight that Auntie Una (of Bridget Jones’s Diary) left sieving her gravy long enough to write a book. “Surely not, just stir it, Una” has got to be my favorite line from that movie (uttered of course by the dishy Colin Firth as […]
Ennui over too many comic-book characters is a thing, I guess.
After the intriguing revisit to Gotham City in The Dark Knight Returns, I wondered what sort of sequel The Dark Knight Strikes Again would be. As it turns out, the direct sequel aspect is quickly overshadowed by the expanding of the Justice League World. It’s not a world I’m familiar with, so I soon found my (admittedly limited) knowledge of the Justice League swamped after cursory characters from movies and TV shows I’d seen. It’s not a bad thing, per se, but I still consider […]
A crushing crisis of faith.
There are points in a person’s life when a book crushes her very core, and she is left reeling. There are moments when a book’s impact is felt too-closely based on an event or circumstance in a person’s life. In my life, The Book Thief fits that former category, a book that left me curled up in fetal position around a box of Kleenex, sobbing until I couldn’t breathe. The latter kind of book is The Fault in Our Stars, which I read for CBR5 […]
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