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SPOILERS!!!!! Over halfway and then DNF.

For Better and Worse by Margot Hunt

February 4, 2019 by Chris Leave a Comment

The plot idea behind this book is good. It’s really interesting, but as it is used in this book, it doesn’t quite work. Possible spoilers, though I will try to keep it non-spoilerish. The book opens with a couple on a first date, talking about how, since they are smart, they could get away with killing someone. Then we jump to years later where said couple -Will and Nat (short for Natalie) are married with a young son and the marriage might not be doing […]

Trolls, Trolls, and More Trolls

In The Troll Wood by John Bauer

January 27, 2019 by Chris Leave a Comment

I have loved John Bauer since I lived in Sweden for six months when I was a kid. My parents give a collection of fairy tales illustrated by him. There is something about his trolls and his use of light and shadow. This picture presents Bauer’s artwork with short little narratives about trolls. There is what happens when a Friar tries to exile trolls from a forest. There is a princess who is captured by trolls but is able to save herself. There is […]

Good quick read

How Do We Look by Mary Beard

January 26, 2019 by Chris Leave a Comment

When the more recent Civilization was shown on PBS, they edited it a bit from the British version because we can’t have nice things in America since we elected an orange. But they edited out much Mary Beard which is so not right. Really not right. So if you are wondering why Mary Beard wrote a book that functions as a companion to the series that’s why. The book is a look at how the viewer interacts with art. She focuses on ancient and religious […]

Good installment

A Crown of Lights by Phil Rickman

January 25, 2019 by Chris 1 Comment

Phil Rickman writes women very well. Merrily is such a wonderfully drawn character, but she isn’t the only well written woman in the book. Rickman writes women as people, and, correctly, does not have them think or describe the women in terms of their boobs. Rickman is also aware of how differently society would see a woman in a situation as opposed to a man. This is used wonderfully as Merrily’s backstory makes it to social media. Merrily’s reaction to the problem is one that […]

Is Bulgakov a Russian Edward Gorey?

Black Snow by Mikhail Bulgakov

January 25, 2019 by Chris 2 Comments

Mikhail Bulgakov must have had a thing for cats. He’s must have been like the Russian Edward Gorey or something because there are cats in this book. Gorey was so well known for his cats that Tove Jansson (yes that one) wrote a story short about it. Satan, however, is of a different from than cat in this book. If Satan is in this book, he is the powers that control the theater and drive an author to the end of his rope. This isn’t […]

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