![]() This is not a book which can be read as a stand alone I think. And that’s why I went with the grade I did. When I was actually reading I just loved the heck out of it. It had all the best elements of your stories all together and it pushed most of my good book buttons.Īs much as I loved it, I did notice a few things, which I will talk about in a bit, but for the most part, I noticed them after I finished reading and was considering what to write in my review apart from ohmygodsogoodeveryoneshouldreaditrightnow. ![]() ![]() If anyone was worried that your heart wasn’t in writing this book because you had originally planned to write a full length Tom and Moira story, they can definitely stop worrying. Alpha & Omega is very probably the best novella I’ve ever read and it’s one I’ve re-read a number of times – and I’m not really a re-reader. I’m an unabashed fan of both your Mercy Thompson and Alpha & Omega series’. ![]() ![]() (There are also a couple more serious trigger warnings further down). ![]()
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![]() ![]() Her ‘colour’ based short story collections, Black Juice, White Time, Red Spikes and Yellowcake are both hit and miss. ![]() Yet I absolutely hated her novel, Tender Morsels, a retelling of Snow White and Rose Red. I love the way her prose rips your heart out with poetic and wild abandon. I have long respected her ability to twist and innovate with her language and narrative structure. ![]() My relationship with Lanagan’s work is somewhat odd. I bought a copy for the holiday break alongside Margo’s short story collection, Red Spikes, as a semester ending treat. I’d heard a bit about Sea Hearts through the blogosphere grapevine, and of course, Margo was also at the Sydney Writer’s Festival this year discussing the dark limits (and horizons) of speculative fiction, including those explored in Sea Hearts. To be honest, I should still be doing thesis work as I type, but this book is too good to give short shrift in the reviews department. Hence, this blog has had blog posts scattered few and far between since July. I finished this book back in July but my thesis work attacked me and gave me heart palpitations over how much I still had left to do on it. Sea Hearts, Margo Lanagan, Allen and Unwin, 2012 ![]() ![]() ![]() Uncover the stories behind the Diableries and follow their journey through the underworld using the full size OWL stereoscopic viewer, neatly housed in a storage envelope and inserted alongside the book in a protective slipcase. ![]() Remarkably, the two lost remaining views have now been found! This 2018 Complete Edition features the full compliment, to be enjoyed just as their creators intended in magnificent 3-D. Tableaux depicting life in hell, better known as Diableries, were all the rage in nineteenth century France but over the years the stereo images made after those clay tableaux were scattered and their hidden meaning lost. When first published in 2013, this book featured all but two of the 184 scenes in the series. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a mimsywimsy Hallmark greeting card society where miraculously everyone is good looking, cheerful, eager to help milk all the llamas or do some strenuous haymaking at the drop of a 14th century hat– the industrial revolution has been abolished along with the concept of nationality (“imagine there’s no countries, it isn’t hard to do, nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too”). Well, I’m sorry to say that Morris communism turns out to be a version of the worst song John Lennon ever wrote. Well, never mind how he did it, what’s the result like? This ideal society. ![]() Yes! Ha ha, I wonder where I got that idea from. ![]() As usual with these utopia novels, this is not really a novel but an essay in the form of a novel, mostly in dialogue. So Mr Morris was taking on the tough job of describing what a pure Communist society would be like, something that Karl himself put into the Too Difficult box. Some of those more enlightened men who were then called Socialists, although they well knew, and even stated in public, that the only reasonable condition of society was that of pure Communism such as you now see around you No, - when he describes the revolution of 1952 he says it was led by In William Morris’s cutesy-communist-glazed-eyes-dreamy-pastoral world everyone would have beautifully hand-carved shelves with 14th century designs. Well some people don’t have any shelves at all. Or you could develop powers like Johnny 5 My version of utopia would be to have the time to read all these books I bought. ![]() ![]() ![]() And as the parlor games turn a little bit menacing, she finds she needs more than a good corset to keep herself safe. ![]() She dons a bonnet and stays at a country manor house that provides an immersive Austen experience, complete with gentleman actors who cater to the guests' Austen fantasies.Įveryone at Pembrook Park is playing a role, but increasingly, Charlotte isn't sure where roles end and reality begins. When Charlotte Kinder treats herself to a two-week vacation at Austenland, she happily leaves behind her ex-husband and his delightful new wife, her ever-grateful children, and all the rest of her real life in America. Genres: Contemporary Romance, Mystery, Romance, Suspense Published by Bloomsbury on January 31, 2012 ![]() |