Those Left Behind by Brett Matthews, Joss Whedon
Serenity Comics #1-3 ISBN: 1593074492 Set between the end of Firefly and before the Big Damn Movie that is Serenity this story, Those Left Behind, is almost like a TV episode....
2 October 2005
To be Read Over
Here is the deal, these are some 110 top banned books. Bold what you’ve read, italicize what you’ve read part of. via This Blog will be Deleted by Tomorrow The Bible...
27 September 2005
The Bull Raid by Calo Gebbler
ISBN: 1405212551 This is a YA book based on the Irish legend of The Táin. Cúchulainn is the legendary Ulster warrior who is forced to defend the province from the Connacht...
18 September 2005
Devil’s Cub by Georgette Heyer
ISBN: 0099465833 This is the sequel to These Old Shades, and deals with the Duke of Avon’s son; the Marquis of Vidal. He is as much a rake as his father...
6 September 2005
An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
ISBN: 0349116156 Set in the 1950′;s this is the story of Stella as she becomes part of a theatre group She lives with her aunt and uncle in a boarding house,...
5 September 2005
Last Days dir. by Gus Van Sant
Opening with a scene of Blake stumbling and mumbling his way through the woods this film almost always looks great and interesting. Unfortunately it isn’t. It is a boring, one-note tale...
4 September 2005
Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
You know all those US-ians[1] who go on about how the US is the greatest country in the world? How it is the best in everything? Well, to mangle the words...
2 September 2005
Haunted by Kelley Armstrong
Eva Levine is a half-demon half-witch who also happens to be dead. She’s not in heaven, not in hell, just in the afterlife. Or at least the one that supernatural beings go to after they die. She is also a little preoccupied with keeping an eye on her daughter, Savannah, although being dead she has no way at all of protecting her, talking to her, or ever getting in contact.
30 August 2005
The Reverse of the Medal by Patrick O'Brien
Book 11 ISBN: 0006499260 Someone mentions Jack Aubrey and at once you think of sea battles and naval history, you may not think of Stock Exchange frauds and court cases, but...
27 August 2005
While Green Grass Grows by Bríd Mahon
ISBN: 1856352064 As the subtitle says this book is mainly concerned with the life of Bríd Mahon while she worked for the Irish Folklore Commission. In it Mahon lists many of...
22 August 2005
The Last Light of the Sun by Guy Gavriel Kay
ISBN: 0743484231 Yet again Kay succeeds in creating a wonderful, fantastical version of history. This time he takes an alternate Britain being raided by the Vikings. It is set in the...
21 August 2005
The Wandering Fire by Guy Gavriel Kay
ISBN: 0586215239 It is always hard to review the middle book of a trilogy. I don’t want to give anything away to those who have yet to read The Summer Tree,...
18 August 2005