I was inspired to re-read Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad after I read The Odyssey (with and without pictures). "The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water: there are too many inconsistencies." Atwood describes the impetus for retelling this classic tale as follows: "I've always been haunted by the hanged maids;
Readers of Who Do You Think You Are? first met Rose's step-mother in "Royal Beating". In that first story, Flo was an agent of power (although at least part of her power is wielded through her husband), a force to be reckoned with for young Rose. In "Spelling", Rose has
What does Captain Trips mean anyway? NY: Marvel Publishing Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Writer Mike Perkins, Artwork Laura Marin, Colourist If you could ask General Bill Starkey he would NOT say 99.4% communicability, 99.4% excess mortality. He can't say that: he works for the government. But that's what it means.
In the past two-and-a-half years, I have written four of these, spelling out the reasons that I fell for four books: When did you last fall in love with a book? Z.Z. Packer's Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (2003) Michael Crummey's Galore (2009) Hiromi Goto's Half World (2009) and Sarah Waters
June was definitely my quietest reading month this year, but one book is absolutely going to be on my list of 2012 Favourites. A good month! Harper Collins, 2011 And I did *finally* read the first book in Holly Black's Faerie trilogy (Tithe). I aimed to start the second
