How does Gaiman package up an utterly complete story and present it so perfectly? Stardust is an intricately woven tale that weaves together many lives and paths in such a seamless way that either a mad man or a genius had to write it. Stardust primarily follows the journey of Tristran Thorn to retrieve a fallen star for a girl he is trying to win over. On the way away from and back to his home village of Wall, Tristran…
This is my first Neil Gaiman book! The Graveyard Book is about a boy, Nobody Owens, who is adopted by Mr. & Mrs. Owens (two ghosts) and raised by the other graveyard inhabitants collectively. His guardian, Silas, organizes his schooling and how much contact he can have with the outside/living world. Bod is hidden from the outside world because the man who killed his family is still looking for him. We see Bod grow up: he meets a little girl…
Shutter was one of the first graphic novels I really got into after reading Saga. Part of the draw for me is that some reviewers had compared it to Saga and called it a modern-day Indian Jones story. This story follows Kate Kristopher, a 27-year-old living in an alternate-reality New York City. She is well known for writing books about the adventures she used to have with her late father, Chris, and works as a photographer. I’m caught up with…
Sunshine is different from many of the books I usually read for many reasons, but the most basic of them is that this is a stand-alone book. After all the series I read, especially lately (the Hollows followed by Jane Yellowrock), this is a nice change of pace. I don’t have to worry about how I’m going to fit 10 more books on my already-overflowing shelves or how I will find the time to read those 10 books that I…
I love unique story lines! In this comic, Suzie discovers that after sexy times (alone or with someone else) she enters “The Quiet,” where time stops for everyone around but her. This allows her to get away with pretty much anything. When she first discovered the ability, she mostly used it to yell and scream when she needed to let some anger go. Later on she meets Jon, a one-night-stand turned boyfriend, who also has the ability to enter The…
She looks kinda bookish, right? Must be the glasses. A mural on Capitol Hill, Seattle. Quite late, I know. But I say better late than never! Onward…42. Ever After by Kim Harrison#12 in a series, read round 3’s post as to why I’m not reviewing each book.43. The Witch with No Name by Kim Harrison44. Saga Vol.2Saga is amazing. Wonderful. Fabulous. Moving. Go buy it.45. Saga Vol. 3See above.46. Mastering the Art of French Eating by Ann MahThis book takes…
I bought Skinwalker in December when Audible was running a sale. It sounded like a neat idea: Jane is a skinwalker (shifts into animals) of Cherokee descent who is called to New Orleans on a job to hunt a rogue vamp who has been terrorizing the city. Along with the great premise, the supporting characters bring this world to life. Perhaps the most interesting aspect to me is that Jane has the soul of a mountain lion, Beast, living inside of…
Most of the books I’ve been reading for the past three and a half months are related to the Hollows series by Kim Harrison (see gushing blog post here). I’m not going to write descriptions for each of them because they would be spoilers and I would have to go back to each book to remind myself what was in that particular one. Just go read them already so I’ll have someone to stay up late and talk to about them….
A few months ago I started to look for a new type of book to read (to be honest, I need filler between Gail Carriger’s books. She just can’t pop them out fast enough for me) and read a few duds before I found Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison. It came out in 2005 and the fact that it still had some of the early 2000’s cheesiness kind of put me off, but I could still see that it…
To continue this post, here are the books I read in the second quarter of 2014:9. Saving the Sammi by Frank TuttleA follow-up novella to All the Paths of Shadow, this was a great short read to accompany the full novel. I really like this world and storyline and I can’t wait for the second in the series to be released!10. The Last Bride in Ballymuir by Dorien KellyThis was an okay book. It is set in a small Irish village and…