Shelf Quest

(source) The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences goes through quite a time when the Department of Imperial Inconveniences (“The Department”) is set on following orders to kill all of the Ministry agents. Our two main characters, Eliza Braun (Ministry Agent) and Wellington Books (Ministry Archivist), find themselves with their hands full exploring a relationship between each other, getting to the bottom of the Department’s new orders, and trying to solve a kidnapping of one of the Ministry Seven. The Ministry Seven…

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Black Science is about a team who invents a device that transports people to other worlds. They claim they want access to any and all resources to treat illness, but in turn they will be exposed to even more contagions and face a risk of encountering enemies. Someone ends up sabotaging their device so they have no control when or where they go next. People keep dying while they try to figure it all out. Visually, this graphic novel was…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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….

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