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Terry Pratchett isn’t Jolly
A friend sent me this great article that Neil Gaiman wrote for The Guardian. He discusses the common misconception that it’s simply the humour that drives Terry Pratchett’s writing when it’s really much more. Still, by the top of the hour it was all over. We went back to our hotel, and this time we took a taxi. Terry was silently furious: with himself, mostly, I suspect, and with the world that had not told him that the distance from the bookshop to the radio station was much further than it had looked on our itinerary. He sat in the back of the cab beside me white with anger, a…
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Seconds
Seconds by Bryan Lee O’Malley Format: Original Graphic Novel Originally Published: 2014 Publisher: Ballantine Books Length: 336 pages I’m a huge fan of Scott Pilgrim, so when I saw that Bryan Lee O’Malley had released a new stand-alone graphic novel I had to pick it up. It’s also loosely about food and I love food. I’m what’s referred to as an easy sell. Katie is in a frightening, exciting, and stressful point in her life. She’s transitioning from being head chef at a popular restaurant that she helped open four years ago to opening and co-owning a new restaurant. Her partner and her had to decide between two locations, and…
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Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton Published: 1990 Length: 400 pages Jurassic Park stands as one of my all-time favourite movies. I saw it in the theatre three times, and again last year when it was released in 3D, and I’ve seen it countless times on video since. I just love it. It’s just as good today as it was back then, and the special effects really stand up, unlike any of the horrible sequels. I was mainly reading fantasy as a teenager, so I never picked up the novel, despite the endless recommendations to do so. In the last decade, with unfortunate snobbery on my part, I wrote Crichton off…
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Saga, Volume 3
Saga, Volume 3 by Brian K. Vaughan Illustrated by: Fiona Staples Published: 2014 Publisher: Image Comics Length: 144 pages Collects: issues #13-18 This series has been consistently fantastic since the first issue. That makes for excellent reading but also boring blogging, so I’ll keep this fairly brief. It’s just great, plain and simple, so I’m afraid this will mainly be gushing. In this trade, Vaughan went back and explained what was happening behind the scenes during the end of the last story arc – the same scene but expanded and following other characters. Similar in concept to the time overlap that George R.R. Martin used in book four and five…
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August in Review
Books Acquired: Seconds by Bryan Lee O’Malley Chew: The Omnivore Edition, Volume 4 by John Layman Books Read: Slam by Nick Hornby Saga, Volume 3 by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton Seconds by Bryan Lee O’Malley My two purchases this month were comics despite having told myself I wasn’t going to buy any more until I finished the ones I already own, as I really have to start conserving shelf space. I had to order the new Bryan Lee O’Malley book, however, almost purely out of curiosity to see what he’d come up with now that the Scott Pilgrim madness has died down. The other…