Character update will return next week.
Bill: This week I read two disappointing works: Horizon, the conclusion to Fran Wilde’s BONE CITY trilogy; and Cast No Shadow, a muddled graphic novel by Nik Tapalansky and Anissa Espinosa. More enjoyable was Reed Tucker’s Slugfest: Inside the Epic, 50-year Battle between Marvel and DC, a generally entertaining look at the two major superhero comic companies’ interactions with one another.
Marion: I finished Holly Black’s urban fantasy White Cat on the plane coming to HawaiiCon. Black is an imaginative writer and I enjoyed the concept of “magic workers” and the struggles they face. That said, the un-likeability of the MC’s family made the book a less-than-pleasant read, and left me wondering how such venal, selfish people managed to raise a boy with a functioning, if weak, moral compass. Now I’m browsing Giants at the End of the World, a Showcase of Finnish Weird, which was part of the WorldCon packet. It is adding to my ever-growing list of books in translation that I need to find. This book is right up Terry Weyna’s alley.
Sandy: Moi? Having just finished reading Jules Verne’s The Begum’s Fortune (1879), I am proceeding on to another master of 19thcentury literature, Edgar Allan Poe. The book that I am getting into now is Poe’s only full-length novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, which was first released in 1838. This book is featured in Moorcock and Cawthorn’s Fantasy: 100 Best Books and I thus have high hopes for this one, indeed. I will endeavor to get my thoughts out to you regarding this one soon…
Tim: This week, I began listening to Son of the Black Sword by >Larry Correia. It’s fun so far, though I must admit that I’m not very far along. At some point I’m going to have to figure out where the “black sword” as a spooky weapon of power originated, because I seem to see it a lot. Maybe it’s just rule of cool.
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