"And as dreams of snow and ice flowed over me, I wondered how differently it might all have gone if taking out monsters did come with a how-to manual."
-Kathy Tierney, Blood Oranges

Oh Quinn. You just would have fucked up in different, yet equally disastrous and inventive ways.

night night
- 12th

Hey there folks.

So, I am breaking several months of blog silence to go ahead and get something off my mind, a (probably not) short rumination on a novel I read recently which has been taking up a lot of my headspace of late.  This week I finish Dan Simmons' 2011 novel Flashback. If you want the TL;DR: it's a book which will likely either cause ( Read more... )

Your good friend unsi_sempai is doing some autumn cleaning and guess who benefits!
(psst: it's you)

I have several books sitting out on my back porch that I want to give away to you! They range in condition from Never Unwrapped to Pretty Terrible! Tell me what you want and I’ll mail it to you (or give it to you if you live close by)! This deal won’t last, ( Read more... )

Query from our movers this weekend:

"Ya'll read all them books?"

Classic.

-12th.

Let me just say that if you have a good long transit, and are a reasonably quick reader, I recommend Austin Grossman's Soon I Will Be Invincible. Actually, even a short flight would be fine to read it. It really zips pretty quickly. It's a very simple celebration of universal Comic Book characters, plots, tropes, and cliches wrapped in a glazed ( Read more... )

Okay, A few notes on the books I've read because I've had lot of time on my hands with no electricity and time which I've been trying to avoid provoking a fight with Mel. The less said about that, the better. So, here's what I've got...

( My Eyes Should Hurt More Than This )

So, I finished China Mieville's Iron Council over the weekend. It's pretty much what I expected, as I do enjoy his Bas-Lag world and such. A lot of wonderful world-building (although I suppose that's better expressed as world-flexing, as one gets the impression that he is not really inventing this stuff as he goes along but instead is just ( Read more... )

I finished Hal Duncan's Vellum last week, much to my relief. The novel was a Xmas present from Mel, which she picked solely on the basis of the jacket copy - which suggests that this novel will be a kind of supernatural, angelpunk, urban fantasy bit of apocalyptica. I usually approach anything which posits a "vast war between angels and demons, ( Read more... )