There’s a few lines on the back cover blurbs that say, “FSG is no ivory tower- the owner’s wife called the office a ‘sexual sewer’- and its untold story is as tumultuous and engrossing as many of the great novels it has published.” This is talking about the American publisher of T.S. Eliot, and other literary greats including Flannery O’Connor, Joan Didion, Philip Wroth, and Jonathan Franzen. I like books, I like literary history, and I like bibliography, therefore I should have liked this. And […]
Disney Princess, Twist and Twisted edition
I’m in 2 minds about Ladycastle. First, it’s a fun fairly light fantasy story in which all the men of a town are killed on an expedition except one old knight, which means all the wives and daughters left behind have to take over and do all the work to keep the town safe and running. This includes Merinor, formerly blacksmith’s wife, now King; Aeve, eldest princess, now Knight, and Gwneff, the younger princess who is somewhat tomboyish and somewhat bratty. There’s also some variety […]
Awesome Info but Attitude goes Bad
I was at a conference in Cincinnati a while back, and there was an independent bookstore with a café a few doors down from the hotel. I felt something of an obligation to buy something there, even though I needed to be mindful of being able to zip my carry-on bag closed. I had no idea what I was going to buy, but I saw a display table of recommended reads, and picked the most interesting looking book off it. After reading it, I’m in […]
So weird even Wikipedia can’t help explain the Gibson
I started to compose this review in my head even before I’d finished the book. William Gibson is my dad’s favorite writer, and while I’ve read one or two of his short stories, I’ve never read his novels (Gibson, not Dad). I decided to start with Neuromancer as it’s the book that really made Gibson famous as the founder of the cyberpunk genre and which popularized the term ‘cyberspace’ which Gibson made up in a previous publication; it was also the first book to ever […]
Careful Hannah, Moishe Might be Getting More Interesting than You
Question: why end a novel with a sentence that’s supposed to be a cliffhanger when it was obvious three books ago? Seriously. I both don’t understand how that could not have been obvious, and at the same time am very glad to see it. Unfortunately it would be spoilers to say much more, but I now have hope that maybe Hannah will eventually be back to her fun pre-Ross self in whatever the sequel to Raspberry Danish Murder is. Even though I totally saw that […]
Too Many Loose Threads and Stinkyness
Ok. Well that’s that series done. I’m really not sure how I feel about The Case for Jamie. I was intrigued by the first novel A Study in Charlotte and liked quite a few things about it, but I absolutely hated the second The Last of August. It was too much of a shift in tone, some of the characters were too unsympathetic or cliché, and there were some holes in the plot and relationships that bothered me. This final part of the trilogy was […]
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