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Songs of Ice and Fire – Game of Thrones
Well, this was pretty awesome – in some parts, downright brilliant – and I’m an idiot for putting it off for so long. Anyways, thanks to the scheduling people at HBO (April 17Th is coming) I finally...
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Songs of Ice and Fire – Clash of Kings
I’ll be quick, book 3 is calling :D Have to wonder though – did GRRM. introduce us to the Starks in order to have them killed/maimed/lost, one by one? By the end of A clash of Kings things are even...
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Songs of Ice and Fire – A Storm of Swords
Reading 1000-page books is considerably slower if you do it almost only on weekends. Which is how I went through A storm of swords and most likely how I’ll be going through A feast for crows. So… 3000...
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Songs of Ice and Fire – A Feast for Crows
Well, color me unimpressed. Book four had too much of some things (like new point of view characters) and too little of others (like the old point of view characters) – which is not to say it’s a bad...
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Bloodcurdling tales of horror and the macabre
I think a lot of the way we perceive and appreciate art has to do with our prior expectations. Coming up against something new with an open mind is one thing – you’re prepared to understand it while...
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Songs of Ice and Fire – A Dance with Dragons
After a week spent being (only a little) annoyed with everyone who had it & another week (or so) spent actually reading it…I can now *finally* pass some kind of opinions on GRRM’s Dance with...
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Little bits of sorcery
Equal Rites In the Discworld, the eighth son of an eighth son can become a wizard. But what happens when this eighth son is actually a daughter – now in possession of a dangerously independent and...
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The Famished Road
The Famished Road is not just the story of a poor African family – it’s entwined with myth and fantasy, gods and spirits, politics, violence and greed. Its universe is so complex and its reality feels...
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Best served cold
The failures, the disappointments, the regrets, they stay raw as the moments they happened. (…) This is the stuff the past is made of. The wretched moments that make us who we are. Best Served Cold...
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The Book Thief / Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
There is no grim skeletal figure with a scythe. And that quote works nicely for both books – since both deal with death in various shapes, forms, sizes and amusing dispositions. About The Book Thief...
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