Random and Stacia Kane (paranormal)
I didn’t know that all of original Elfquest is free online.
Another piece of news to me: the identity of this redshirt who survived the whole TOS episode.
On the fantasy of competition in education: “[A]ll schools will be excellent when they compete. That’s why all those programs on all those channels on your TV dial are excellent, and why every product in the marketplace is excellent.”
Women, Men and Fiction: Notes on How Not to Answer Hard Questions: Jeffrey Eugenides and the things he doesn’t need to see.
Revenge: was I the only one who thought Emily's "Son of a bitch!" when faced with the reveal was the most human and hilarious thing she'd said in the show's entire run?
Stacia Kane, Unholy Magic: Okay, I like Chess the addict Churchwitch kind of a lot, even if the villains seem to be ghosts/humans working with ghosts at the Scooby Doo level. That’s not even really a fair criticism of this book, since the story is a bit sadder than that; I’m still not entirely clear on the rules of this world where ghosts will get free and kill you if they can and the Church is what’s holding them back (at least, so Chess believes; my guess is that subsequent worldbuilding is likely to complicate this account). Anyway, once again Chess faces a conflict between her dealer and her day job, both of whom want her to deal with hauntings, and once again her on-book and off-book cases are connected, but the real drama is in her ongoing addiction, her struggle with her history of abuse and resulting low self-worth, and her juggling two men (not very well).
Stacia Kane, Finding Magic: Novella of Chess’s time in training: her first case, when she’s not quite a fullblown drug addict yet but still has plenty to hide from the Church. She has to deal with trainers who don’t trust her on a ghost murder case, where her sharp insights might just get her killed. Backstory, but clearly written after other parts of the series.
Stacia Kane, City of Ghosts: I still don’t know what the heck is going on with magic in this world: psychopomps assist witches in taking ghosts to the City of the Dead so that they can’t attack the living, except now the psychopomps aren’t working right, which means the Church can’t do its job. This has something to do with the evil Lamaru, the evil band of evildoers who want to displace the Church. And also Chess is trying to win back the heart of the man she loves, which is going about as well as her investigation. The good news is, she has plenty of drugs this time around.
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Another piece of news to me: the identity of this redshirt who survived the whole TOS episode.
On the fantasy of competition in education: “[A]ll schools will be excellent when they compete. That’s why all those programs on all those channels on your TV dial are excellent, and why every product in the marketplace is excellent.”
Women, Men and Fiction: Notes on How Not to Answer Hard Questions: Jeffrey Eugenides and the things he doesn’t need to see.
Revenge: was I the only one who thought Emily's "Son of a bitch!" when faced with the reveal was the most human and hilarious thing she'd said in the show's entire run?
Stacia Kane, Unholy Magic: Okay, I like Chess the addict Churchwitch kind of a lot, even if the villains seem to be ghosts/humans working with ghosts at the Scooby Doo level. That’s not even really a fair criticism of this book, since the story is a bit sadder than that; I’m still not entirely clear on the rules of this world where ghosts will get free and kill you if they can and the Church is what’s holding them back (at least, so Chess believes; my guess is that subsequent worldbuilding is likely to complicate this account). Anyway, once again Chess faces a conflict between her dealer and her day job, both of whom want her to deal with hauntings, and once again her on-book and off-book cases are connected, but the real drama is in her ongoing addiction, her struggle with her history of abuse and resulting low self-worth, and her juggling two men (not very well).
Stacia Kane, Finding Magic: Novella of Chess’s time in training: her first case, when she’s not quite a fullblown drug addict yet but still has plenty to hide from the Church. She has to deal with trainers who don’t trust her on a ghost murder case, where her sharp insights might just get her killed. Backstory, but clearly written after other parts of the series.
Stacia Kane, City of Ghosts: I still don’t know what the heck is going on with magic in this world: psychopomps assist witches in taking ghosts to the City of the Dead so that they can’t attack the living, except now the psychopomps aren’t working right, which means the Church can’t do its job. This has something to do with the evil Lamaru, the evil band of evildoers who want to displace the Church. And also Chess is trying to win back the heart of the man she loves, which is going about as well as her investigation. The good news is, she has plenty of drugs this time around.
comments on DW | reply there. I have invites or you can use OpenID.