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Rabbit Trail Reviews
Dec. 10th, 2011 01:37 pmCut for lengthy chunnerings and spoilers, though it's possible I'm just incomprehensible to the unsuspecting reader. At least I've amused myself!
Ultraviolet by R. J. Anderson
( He will say, 'The celebrated Mr. Syme, I presume' )
If I were really clever I would have worked in a TMWWT pun (I'll use it as cut text instead) and some sort of graceful transition to mentioning Dorothy Sayers' Letters to a Diminished Church and Flannery O'Connor's Mystery and Manners. The two talk about similar things, which was surprising to me because I known nothing about Flannery O'Conner and picked the book up because the title was interesting and maybe it was about old detective stories? It was a pleasant surprise to find that the essays are rather about why a writer writes and what they are trying to convey to the reader.
Moving from squee to shining squee...
FullMetal Alchemist episodes 1-10
( I shall reply in the most exquisite Cockney, 'Oh, just the Syme.' )
Merlin: Season One
( 'I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.' )
Finally, Loveleaves and Woodwender is part of why I'm now waiting impatiently for Kersten Hamilton's Tyger, Tyger and In the Forests of the Nights to come for me at the library. The other part is that the William Blake poem is one of my favourites. But the short story is quite lovely; I can easily imagine that it was found in a collection by Grimm, Perrault, Hans Christian Anderson, or the Oxford Book of Fairy Tales, or maybe one of Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or something like that, and it has the same depth and feel to it as Factotum or The Ill-Made Mute...
Ultraviolet by R. J. Anderson
( He will say, 'The celebrated Mr. Syme, I presume' )
If I were really clever I would have worked in a TMWWT pun (I'll use it as cut text instead) and some sort of graceful transition to mentioning Dorothy Sayers' Letters to a Diminished Church and Flannery O'Connor's Mystery and Manners. The two talk about similar things, which was surprising to me because I known nothing about Flannery O'Conner and picked the book up because the title was interesting and maybe it was about old detective stories? It was a pleasant surprise to find that the essays are rather about why a writer writes and what they are trying to convey to the reader.
Moving from squee to shining squee...
FullMetal Alchemist episodes 1-10
( I shall reply in the most exquisite Cockney, 'Oh, just the Syme.' )
Merlin: Season One
( 'I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.' )
Finally, Loveleaves and Woodwender is part of why I'm now waiting impatiently for Kersten Hamilton's Tyger, Tyger and In the Forests of the Nights to come for me at the library. The other part is that the William Blake poem is one of my favourites. But the short story is quite lovely; I can easily imagine that it was found in a collection by Grimm, Perrault, Hans Christian Anderson, or the Oxford Book of Fairy Tales, or maybe one of Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or something like that, and it has the same depth and feel to it as Factotum or The Ill-Made Mute...
