the writings, musings, and photography of a dream smith
Novel and Nonfiction reviews, as posted on Amazon or Goodreads.
There have always been storytellers to keep the night at bay. There have not always been books, and as the oratory tradition of stories is a precarious form of literary remembrance, the oldest stories ran wild in countless incarnations before eventually being recorded in writing. There are some names synonymous with the telling of fairy…
Continue reading ➞ Read-Along: The Sharazad Project (Part 1)
Prince of Chaos by Roger Zelazny My rating: 5 of 5 stars Prince of Chaos is the tenth and final book in The Great Book of Amber, and man, what a closer. I've had a lot of gripes with this series, ranging from stunted character growth to mediocre motivations and waffling plots, but I knew…
Knight of Shadows by Roger Zelazny My rating: 4 of 5 stars The identity of Mask has been discovered, Merlin's brother is in league with entities desperate to kill him, and Coral, a dignitary's stepdaughter (and illegitimate child of Oberon) is lost after instructing the Pattern to conduct her to where she "should" go. Oh,…
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner I am always looking for a good excuse to read at the classics, and Faulkner has been one of those writers that I have often seen quoted, but I've never read personally. My knowledge of him stopped at "his typewriter is famous." So, when a book club I recently…
Continue reading ➞ As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner: A Review
Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures & Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs Paul Koudoumaris My Review: 5 of 5 stars From the publisher, Thames & Hudson: "In 1578 a labyrinth of underground burials was discovered in Rome that contained the remains of thousands of individuals assumed to be early Christian martyrs. The bones were disinterred and sent to…
