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Saturday, May 26, 2012
A stand-alone SF novel.
Publication year: 1962
Format: Audio
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Narrator: Kevin Foley
Running Time: 8 hrs and 20 minutes
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Friday, May 25, 2012
Writers: Kurt Busiek and Fabien Nicieza
Artists: George Perez, Dick Giordand, Al Vey, Mark Bagley, Al Milgrom
Collects Avengers vol. 3 #31–34, Thunderbolts #42–44
Publisher: Marvel
Publication date: 2004
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Booking Through Thursday
Do you have any pet that has a name inspired by your readings?
If not, what would you pick if you DID?
Do any of your friends have book-based names for their pets? (Or their children?)
When I was a teenager, I had a German Shepard. I named her Kara; after Supergirl.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
A stand-alone science fiction book.
Publication year: 2002
Format: print
Page count: 422
Publisher: TOR
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Monday, May 21, 2012
The first Read Along post up to Chapter 5:
I read Neverwhere years ago. I first started to read Gaiman through Sandman and then found his books.
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Sunday, May 20, 2012
Carl from the Stainless Steel Droppings is hosting Neverwhere read along and I decided to participate. I've read Neverwhere before but that was years ago. I haven't seen the TV show or graphic novel, though.
The schedule will be as follows:
Read the Prologue through Chapter 5, May 13th-20th. Discussions for this section posted Monday, May 21st.
Read Chapter 6 through Chapter 6 through Chapter 12, May 20th-May 27th. Discussions for this section posted Monday, May 28th.
Read Chapter 13 through the end (Chapter 20), May 27th-June 3rd. Discussions for this section posted Monday, June 4th.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
The first book in the Chronicles of Tornor but can be read as a stand alone.
Publication year: 1979
Format: print
Page count: 222 plus an appendix about the cards of fortune
Publisher: Berkley
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
Booking Through Thursday
If you had to choose to live within a novel, which would it be?
That's a very interesting question. It depends on who I get to be. If I'm just me, rather than the protagonist, for example, I wouldn't want to live in a fantasy novel. I'm rather atteched to idea of being able to own property rather than being property, and most fantasy novels aren't kind to minor characters who aren't male or nobility. I also like modern tech.
I think I would very enjoy very much living in Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan setting. Again, since I'm a woman and not nobility, Barrayar isn't a good option, nor Cetaganda, (although being a lazy and gorgeous Ghem woman might actually be a pretty good deal, as long as I'm not ambitious for anything) for that matter. So, I'll pick the book "Brothers in Arms" which is set on Earth.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
A collection of six linked short stories.
Publication year: 1950
Format: Audio
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Narrator: Arthur Morey
Running Time: 6 hrs and 42 minutes
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Monday, May 14, 2012
A stand-alone fantasy book.
Publication year: 2003
Format: print
Page count: 476
Publisher: Bantam Books
“Besides, I've always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable choice.”
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Saturday, May 12, 2012
Writer: Kurt Busiek
Artists: George Perez, Dick Giordand, Al Vey, Stuart Immonen
Collects Avengers vol. 3 issues 23-30
Publisher: Marvel
Publication date: 2004
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Friday, May 11, 2012
I saw this movie a couple of weeks ago. It's a re imagining of the Snow White fairy tale and aimed at a younger audience. It's also a comedy rather than a drama.
I enjoyed it. The tale starts with the evil Queen and she says that this is her story, but of course it isn't. The Queen is portrayed, traditionally, as vain and selfish. She extorts taxes from her poor subjects to finance her balls. The enchanted mirror isn't just a mirror but a gateway to a magical realm where the Queen talks with the magical creature in the mirror. She isn't a sorceress but asks the mirror to do all the magical things in the movie. She also either doesn't understand the costs or doesn't really know much about them. Unfortunately, all this made her a shallow character.
Snow White starts as a meek and down trodden girl whom the Queen doesn't allow to leave her room even during Snow's birthday. It takes outside prodding for her to leave her room and see what the Queen has done to Snow's country. However, once she has taken her fate to her hands, I rather enjoyed her. Especially after she meets the dwarfs. However, it felt strange that she grew into such a decisive woman in such a short time.
The dwarfs were probably the funniest people in the movie. I won't spoil them but they aren't miners. The masked ball was also very funny. Most of the characters dressed up as various Alice in Wonderland characters with the Queen as the Red Queen, of course, and her long suffering senechalk as the white rabbit. Snow had a swan costume, though.
The ending was extremely convenient but perhaps that's to be expected with a comedy and a fairy tale movie. Still, I quite enjoyed this one and I'm looking forward to the Snow White and the Huntsman which should be aimed at an adult audience.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
The eighth book in the mystery series.
Publication year: 1996
Format: Audio
Publisher: Belinda Audio
Narrator: Stephanie Daniel
Running Time: 6 hrs and 28 minutes
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Today the topic of Top Ten Tuesdays is Top Ten Favorite Book Quotes.
I don't really collect quotes much but a few have stayed with me. They're pretty much from just a few favorite authors.
1, “She knew what she feared: to be locked up in some dark, narrow place by people who loved her. An enemy might drop his guard, weary of his task, turn his back. Love would never falter.”
Lois McMaster Bujold, Paladin of Souls
2, ”Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign
3, ”A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a cleaver fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilites for true idiocy are boundless.”
Steven Brust, Iorich
4, ”A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind. ”
Lois McMaster Bujold, Vor Game
5, ”No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will cramp his style.”
Steven Brust, Jhereg
6, “My love is not water in a bucket, you know. It's not as if someone else can drink it all up and leave none left for you.”
Elizabeth Bear, All the Windwracked Stars
7, ”God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
8, ”The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.”
Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
9, “Just because they are really out to get you doesn’t mean you aren’t paranoid.”
Steven Brust, Issola
10, ”You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.”
Neil Gaiman, Sandman
Sunday, May 6, 2012
The fifth book in the Detective Inspector Chen series set in Singapore Three.
Publication year: 2010
Format: print
Page count: 317 plus a short story The Lesson
Publisher: Morrigan Books
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Saturday, May 5, 2012
Collects Avengers vol.1 issues 181-187
Publisher: Marvel
Publication date: 2009
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Thursday, May 3, 2012
Booking Through Thursday
Do you have siblings? Do they like to read?
I have two younger brothers (both adults, of course).
The older of the two shares my passion for SF and fantasy, to some extent. The younger reads these days mostly to his daughter (Donald Duck, horse comics, fairy tales, etc).
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
The fifth book in the “A Time To” Star Trek: TNG series.
Publication year: 2004
Format: print
Page count: 263 and an excerpt from the next book
Publisher: Pocket Books
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Sunday, April 29, 2012
An SF novella set in the Diving universe. It's set before the second book in th series, City of Ruins, and you don't have to read the books to enjoy this story.
Publication year: 2011
Format: ebook, pdf
Page count: 52
Publisher: WMG Publishing, Smashwords edition
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