May. 30th, 2009
Bookkeeping
May. 30th, 2009 07:52 pm21. The House With a Clock In Its Walls by John Bellairs
22. The Figure In The Shadows by John Bellairs
23. Beneath a Silent Moon by Tracy Grant
This is a beautiful book, but I was a little disappointed that it covered past events instead of taking place after Daughter of the Game.
24. Living With Ghosts by Kari Sperring
A gorgeous book. Beautiful, breathless, haunting prose; characters with nothing but bad and worse choices to make; love that is bittersweet and powerful and deathless, and a train wreck instead of salvation. At times the stately elegiac prose comes at the cost of narrative tension, but I'll take pretty over poppy at least five days out of the week.
I'm totally jealous, because this book has a lot of little (and medium-sized) things in common with Bone Palace, and is so much prettier.
22. The Figure In The Shadows by John Bellairs
23. Beneath a Silent Moon by Tracy Grant
This is a beautiful book, but I was a little disappointed that it covered past events instead of taking place after Daughter of the Game.
24. Living With Ghosts by Kari Sperring
A gorgeous book. Beautiful, breathless, haunting prose; characters with nothing but bad and worse choices to make; love that is bittersweet and powerful and deathless, and a train wreck instead of salvation. At times the stately elegiac prose comes at the cost of narrative tension, but I'll take pretty over poppy at least five days out of the week.
I'm totally jealous, because this book has a lot of little (and medium-sized) things in common with Bone Palace, and is so much prettier.
Kino-running, return of Project Vampire
May. 30th, 2009 11:41 pm16. (Vampire movie #15) Rise
Lucy Liu can make a bad movie watchable, but she can't make it good.
This does get a couple points for a fairly crunchily realistic portrayal of blunt teeth chewing through a wrist. Reader, I squicked.
I fell off the vampire wagon for a while, but I'm trying to get back on. This can only lead to suffering.
Lucy Liu can make a bad movie watchable, but she can't make it good.
This does get a couple points for a fairly crunchily realistic portrayal of blunt teeth chewing through a wrist. Reader, I squicked.
I fell off the vampire wagon for a while, but I'm trying to get back on. This can only lead to suffering.