The short: 4/5 ✦. A heart-wrenching collection of stories with vibrant characters, both new and old, that ties up the series quite nicely.
Month: November 2015
Essay: And Now for Something Completely Grotesque
“Tell about the South. What’s it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.”
― William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!
Book Review: “Crown of Midnight” (2013)
The short: 3.5 ✦. A vast improvement on the previous book, now that there’s fully developed characters, an action-driven plot, and shocking world-building.
Script: The Cask of Amontillado
“A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
Book Review: ‘Library of Souls’ (2015)
The short: 3.5/5 ✦. A not quite perfect but still satisfying and fascinating conclusion to the unique Peculiar Children trilogy.
Essay: Some Kind of Wonder
“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
— Socrates
Flash Fiction: Magical World
There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.
— Jim Morrison
Book Review: ‘The Assassin’s Blade’ (2014)
The short: 3/5 ✦. A collection of five connected yet self-contained short stories that actually develop the main character (mostly).
Essay: Jekyll vs. Hyde – Battle of the Mind
“If he be Mr. Hyde” he had thought, “I shall be Mr. Seek.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Short Story: Dead Building
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
— Julia Morgan
