Spiderman 3 dir. by Sam Raimi
I wasn’t a huge fan of the first two spiderman films; I enjoyed them but didn’t LOVE them. They were good, solid entertainment. Two was probably a little better, though I...
13 May 2007
The Awakening by L.J. Smith
Book #1 in The Vampire Diaries series ISBN: 0061020001 September 4 Dear Diary, Something awful is going to happen today I don’t know why I wrote that. It’s crazy. According to...
10 May 2007
The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint
See also: Library Thing ; Once Upon a Time ; A Librarian told me so It starts with this faint sound that pulls me out of sleep: a sort of calliope...
23 April 2007
The Extremes by Christopher Priest
ISBN: 0575075783 Christopher Priest.co.uk ; The Universal Library ; Her name is Teresa Ann Gravatt and she is seven years old: She has a mirror through which she can see into...
19 April 2007
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
by Neil Gaiman
There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.
And while that is, as beginnings go, not entirely novel (for every tale about every young man there ever was or will could start in a similar manner) there was much about this young man and what happened to him that was unusual although even he never knew the whole of it.
When Tristran Thorn heads off into Faerie to find a star he has no idea of what is about to happen. All he cares is that the beautiful Victoria has promised that she will grant whatever he wishes if he brings the star that she saw fall.
10 April 2007
TMNT dir. by Kevin Munroe
Come on now, who doesn’t love the “heroes in a half-shell”? The main reason I went to see this was that is was on at the right time, and of course...
4 April 2007
Grass by Sherri S Tepper
This was an impulse purchase, I’ve read one or two others by Tepper and although I enjoyed them I do think that she has a tendency to be a little preachy in her books. However if the story is good enough I’m willing to overlook that, and I’d have to say that I really enjoyed this novel. Set at some point far in the future when humankind has colonised many different worlds, the majority of this book takes place on the planet Grass, among the insular bon as the aristocrats are called.
30 March 2007
The Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop
I am Tersa the Weaver, Tersa the Liar, Tersa the Fool.
When the Blood-Jeweled Lords and Ldies hold a banquet, I’m the entertainment that comes after the musicians have played and the lithesome girls and boys have danced and the Lords have drunk too much wine and demand to have their fortunes told.
I’m very much in two minds about this trilogy. One the one hand I read it all in the space of two days, and it is quite long at over 1200 pages. But on the other hand it read like fanfiction to me. And not very good fanfiction. Come to think about it, that may be the reason I read it so fast. The more I read, the more I saw Jaenelle as a Mary-Sue device and less as an actual character.
12 March 2007
Blood and Chocolate [based on the book] by Annette Curtis Klause dir. by Katja von Garnier
From the people who brought us Underworld so I hope you are not expecting the best film in the world here? To be honest this film does exactly what it says...
12 February 2007
The Rest Falls Away by Colleen Gleason
ISBN: 9780451220073 #1 in the Gardella Vampire Chronicles See also: ColleenGleason.com ; SSD review ; Quixotic’s review His footsteps were soundless, but Victoria felt him moving. She grasped the bark of...
2 February 2007
Black Powder War by Naomi Novik
Book 3 in the Temeraire ISBN: 0345481305 ; Wikipedia entry ; aarti chapati I can’t say very much about the plot of this book without giving away plot details from Book...
17 December 2006
Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
Book 2 in the Temeraire series ISBN: 0345481291 ; Naomi Novik’s LJ ; Sandstorm Reviews In the first book of this series Novik introduced the slightly alternate Napoleonic world she had...
17 December 2006
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