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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Published: 1884 Narrated by: Elijah Wood Series: Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn #2 Length: 10:12 I read the The Adventures of Tom Sawyer two years ago and really enjoyed it. I listened to it on audiobook and loved the narrator’s accents, so I thought I’d carry on with the audio route for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This is one of those cases where I feel like audio really shines. This is another book of boyhood fantasies. Huckleberry Finn can’t stand life now that he isn’t poor, after acquiring some cash with Tom Sawyer at the end of the last book. Having…
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Sex Criminals, Vol. 1: One Weird Trick
Sex Criminals, Vol. 1: One Weird Trick by Matt Fraction Illustrated by: Chip Zdarsky Published: 2014 Publisher: Image Comics Series: Sex Criminals #1 Length: 128 pages Collects: issues #1-5 Suzie is a normal girl, a young librarian trying to save her library from going under, but when she has an orgasm time literally stops. She has, quite rightfully, been trying to learn more about this since it began happening, and one night she comes across a man with the same power. What would someone do with a power like this? Rob a bank, of course! It seems silly to compare this with Saga, but my brain arbitrarily combines vaguely similar…
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A Brief History of the Celts
A Brief History of the Celts by Peter Berresford Ellis Published: 2013 Length: 255 pages I started reading this months ago and it just dragged on and on. I was close to abandoning it quite a few times, but I’d always encounter something interesting just before dropping it. That’s the problem. The book is full of interesting events and facts, but it doesn’t go into enough detail and is just so dry. I thought, as a Brief History, this would essentially be a high level overview of the timeline of the Celts with a few key periods looked at in-depth, but instead it felt like a full history of the…
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The Captain and the Enemy
The Captain and the Enemy by Graham Greene Published: 1988 Length: 224 pages This is the last novel Graham Greene wrote before his death in 1991. I’ve only read one of his others before, the audiobook of The End of the Affair narrated by Colin Firth, which was fantastic, and this is an incredibly different book. The End of the Affair felt real. Flawed characters, and a plot that’s surprising but, on reflection, makes sense. This novel was absurd in comparison, and I spent the first half in a state of confusion. The novel opens with a young boy, Victor, at school being picked up by a man he’s never…
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The Ghost Brigades
The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi Published: 2006 Series: Old Man’s War #2 Length: 347 pages I loved Old Man’s War, and for some reason I waited a year and a half to read the sequel, which I actually loved even more. In a way it was good to wait. The main character and cast are largely ignored in this next book, and it’s even written in a different narrative perspective, third person rather than first person. That would have made for a jarring transition if I had read them back to back, I think. The first book starts with John Perry leaving earth as a seventy-five-year-old man and joining…
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March in Review
Books Acquired: Sex Criminals: Volume 1 by Matt Fraction The Seeds of Time by John Wyndham The Outward Urge by John Wyndham Consider Her Ways and Others by John Wyndham A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction by Terry Pratchett Books Read: The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi The Captain and the Enemy by Graham Greene Sex Criminals: Volume 1 by Matt Fraction The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld #32) by Terry Pratchett Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov I found a bunch of John Wyndham novels at a used bookstore, what was I supposed to do? I want to eventually read everything of…