Tag: books
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House of Leaves
I spent a fair chunk of the year reading House of Leaves. And it’s very good. It is one of the more challenging books I have read, not in terms of story, or narrative, but actual physical structure, which coincide with the story and narrative. The core of the story is this, a family buys…
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The Pastel City
On a recommendation at the Book Fair, I picked up *The Pastel City* by M. John Harrison. Set in a “dying earth” style story, in a time where a new empire has risen among the ruins of the preceding civilisation. And that civilisations technology and effect on the environment is still felt even in the…
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The Master and Margarita
I recently finished reading Mikhail Bulgakov’ *The Master and Margarita* and it was really good. But let me add some context to that. Being a Russian novel, it has been translated into English. Now the prose is excellent and it made me wonder how much liberty did the translator have with the prose. Are there…
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Recent Reading
So I recently finished Prophet, by Brandon Graham, Giannis Milogiannis, Simon Roy and Farel Dalrymple. The final volume, Earth War, rounds out the story set a few years ago in the the far-far-future, with the final battle between Old Man Prophet and the resurrected Earth Empire. It was sad to see the series come to…
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Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls
It’s been a long time since I read anything from David Sedaris. The last one was When You Are Engulfed In Flames, which I found thoroughly entertaining (and I should re—read in the near future). Let’s Explore… covers moving from France to Britain, collecting rubbish, praise for his squad of dental surgeons and technicians, learning…
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Reading List
Here’s a short ramble of what I have been reading of late. The Fade Out I’ve been reading Brubaker and Phillip’s Fatale and Criminal, and so far, I’m enjoying The Fade Out more. It’s a pretty compelling story about three people, two writers and an actress, working at a film studio a handful of years after…
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Other Worlds Zine Fair
The Other Worlds Zine Fair was on again for a third year running. It began as the protest zine fair against one of the sponsors of the MCA. And both were run on the same day in previous years. But not this time. Great for me really, because running between two concurrent fairs is exhausting.…
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In the Post
Due to a friend’s continued harassment, I finally caved and purchased a copy of House of Leaves. I honestly have avoided looking inside, but apparently it’s really good… Books and covers, you know. Right now, I am reading The City & The City by China Miéville. It’s an interesting murder investigation, mostly from its setting…
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Best and Worst 2014
So, I think I need to recap a couple of things that happened through the year, mostly because I didn’t find the time to write about them in the moment. Best Film Frank Frank is about a band, whose front man constantly wears a papier-mâché mask. Given this cartoonish appearance, Frank is also a muse…
The Screaming Wall 