“The things that evoke passion are the things we can’t know for certain.”
—Mamma K
Shadow’s Edge by Brent Weeks, pg129.
Shadow’s Edge by Brent Weeks, pg129.
March 2010
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“I Blow Things Up, Therefore I Am, Even If Someone Else Suddenly Isn’t”
—lab tech’s t-shirt
The Man with the Golden Torc by Simon R. Green, pg72.
The Man with the Golden Torc by Simon R. Green, pg72.
“I’ve been recently diagnosed as fashion intolerant. I can’t wear anything good, in case I develop style.”
—Eddie Drood to his grandmother
The Man with the Golden Torc by Simon R. Green, pg65.
The Man with the Golden Torc by Simon R. Green, pg65.
“He’s a bully. I love bullies. They have such big, shiny red buttons to push.”
—Ben O’Farrell, a lawyer
Kitty and the Silver Bullet by Carrie Vaughn, pg96.
Kitty and the Silver Bullet by Carrie Vaughn, pg96.
“Death comes to us all and it is a tragedy to hasten it.”
—Ahmed
Kitty Goes to Washington by Carrie Vaughn, pg70
Kitty Goes to Washington by Carrie Vaughn, pg70
Recent Reads
Kitty and the Midnight Hour, Kitty Goes to Washington, Kitty Takes a Vacation, Kitty and the Silver Bullet, Kitty and the Dead Man’s Hand, Kitty Raises Hell, and Kitty’s House of Horrors by Carrie Vaughn
Codename: Wolverine by Christopher Golden
The Man with the Golden Torc and Daemons Are Forever by Simon R. Green
Warrior and Witch by Marie Brennan
The Gossamer Plain, The Fractured Sky, and The Crystal Mountain by Thomas M. Reid (The Empyrean Odyssey trilogy)
White Witch, Black Curse by Kim Harrison (a Rachael Morgan book)
The Way of Shadows, Shadow’s Edge, and Beyond the Shadows by Brent Weeks (The Night Angel Trilogy)
The Movie Roll
Here’s all the movies I’ve seen since the last time I posted a list:
White Out — This was a fairly good thriller. Since I had not read the comic book it was based I wasn’t disappointed.
New Moon — (or as the theater’s marquee had it: New Moo. Perhaps they got it right.) Going in I expected it to be lame. I was not wrong. Bella is such a user.
Ninja Assassin — No deviation from standard martial arts fare, but still enjoyable for what it was.
The Blind Side — This was a surprisingly good movie, though I fail to see how it made the best picture short list.
Avatar — This was my first IMAX experience (IMAX 3D in Manila for 400 pesos. About $8 US at the exchange rate then.) I don’t care that the plot was derivative. The special effects more than made up for it.
The Spy Next Door — My boys did karate chops all the way home. I didn’t find it the least bit amusing.
Daybreakers — Interesting premise. Too bad it dragged. I was relieved when the credits started to roll.
The Bounty Hunter — Gerard Butler ought to give up the romantic comedies and go back to making actions flicks.
Repo Men — Bleak, bloody, and boring.
“The process (for me personally; and your mileage may vary) is hard to describe, but it shapes up kind of like a tornado. At first it’s a funnel cloud — wide and nebulous and swirling. It has a definite structure and look; I mean, you know what it’s about.** But it’s basically just a twisting mess of ideas that aren’t ready to go down on paper. However, given some time and the right meteorological brainstorm conditions, it begins to concentrate, and stretch, and extend like a long pokey finger — reaching toward the ground, or the page … and eventually, it hones itself down to a starting point. That pin-point where the storm meets the topsoil, that’s where the story starts. That’s the first sentence.”
—Cherie Priest on how the writing starts
