Significant Dust by Margo Lanagan
Vanessa works in a roadhouse in an isolated part of Australia. When we first meet her we don’t know why exactly she’s out there, she says she just wants to save...
15 August 2012
Dracula by Bram Stoker
I read this for the Coursera online course, I’ll post the short essay I wrote for the course in a few days. Dracula is one of those books that everyone has...
12 August 2012
Alice in Wonderland & Through the looking glass by Lewis Carroll
This week’s essay for my online course is on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the looking glass : “One can’t help growing older.” Growing up is hard. As a child...
9 August 2012
Grimm’s Household Tales by The Brothers Gimm
The first assignment for the Fantasy & Science Fiction course I’m doing was on The Grimm Brothers’ Household Tales. For the assignment we were asked to “Please write an essay that...
2 August 2012
The light heart of stone by Tor Roxburgh
Book one in the Promise of Stones series. Fox is a young girl growing up on the Stone Body, a land ruled over by the Compionarii. She is a member of...
31 July 2012
Coursera – Science fiction & fantasy course
A week or so I came across mention of this online course, I’m not sure where, I’d guess it was on Metafilter. That is where I get all my information about...
29 July 2012
The light between oceans by M. L. Stedman
Tom Sherbourne has come back to Australia from World War I. Like many soldiers he has brought many demons back with him. He cannot understand why he survived when so many...
24 July 2012
The Dark Knight Rises [based on characters created] by Bob Kane dir. by Christopher Nolan
Before this review begins, I’d like to just wish everyone affected by the attack in Colorado the very best. I really have no words to express how horrible that was, especially...
23 July 2012
Bitter seeds by Ian Tregillis
Book one in the Milkweed Triptych In a remote part of Germany a doctor has been hard at work, he has had plenty of test subjects, the Great War left many...
16 July 2012
Railsea by China Mieville
Before I start reviewing this, I just want you to do one thing, read the title of this book. Railsea. Now imagine what that means. If you have imagined a world...
14 July 2012
Bajazzle by Margo Lanagan
Okay, do you remember when I “reviewed” The Isles of the sun and I said that I’d love to hear other people’s thoughts on it? Well that goes double for this...
8 July 2012
Snuff by Terry Pratchett
A Discworld Night Watch story. Although the Night Watch is now the city watch, and this isn’t set in the city… still. That’s what it is :) It is almost pointless...
8 July 2012
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