Title: Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron Author: Jasper Fforde Genre: Fiction – Utopia/Dystopia Publication Date: 2009 Purchase Price: $25.95 (hardback) Misc. Info.: First in a series. From the exquisite author of the Thursday Next and Nursery Crime series’. Selecting this week’s book is funny (at least to me). I had been considering…
Category: Review
Book Challenge (Round One): Results
Title: Iron John Author: Robert Bly Genre: Non-fiction Publication Date: 1990 Purchase Price: $15.00 (although I borrowed it from the local library) Seeing as this is the first installment of Book Challenge, I’m going to be winging it a bit–so just stick with me and we’ll see where this goes. The Basics In all honesty,…
Review: Good Omens
Crowley loves fast living, being right, and his 1926 black Bentley. Crowley is also a demon. He is on speaking terms with Aziraphale — which is odd, considering that Aziraphale is an angel. Both have been on Earth since…well, the beginning, on special assignments from their Bosses: cause trouble for the other side. One cannot…
Does Love Really Never Die?
Continuing with the Phantom theme, this mid-week post will be a discussion of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s sequel to Phantom of the Opera. Premiering in London’s West End (which is analogous to New York’s Broadway) in March 2010, Love Never Dies is the continuing saga of Christine Daae, Raoul de Chagny, and the Phantom of the…
“The Opera ghost really existed.”
Title: The Phantom of the Opera Author: Gaston Leroux Genre: Fiction – mystery/horror Publication Date: 1911 (first American edition) Purchase Price: $7.00 (paperback) Misc. Info.: Based on the (true?) accounts of the Opera ghost at the Paris Opera House From looking at his photograph, Gaston Leroux (1868-1927) appears to be a rather handsome, if unremarkable,…