Tex and Molly Curse Glitter
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maribouThe Curse of the Spellmans, by Lisa Lutz
If I really enjoy a book, I'm always a bit cautious about trying another by the same author - especially if it's a sequel. What if that special shiny spark is gone? But in this case, second verse was even better than the first. Izzy Spellman is one of my favorite funny narrators. I actually teared up a bit at one point too, though that may be more hormonal than actually creditable to the writing.
(174/300)
The Glimmer Palace, by Beatrice Colin (ARC)
This book had a weird trick of being simultaneously gritty/factual-seeming and hazy/magic-realist. Nothing magical or impossible actually happens, it's just that everything has this bizarre larger-than-life quality to it, probably because of the authorial voice. The combination worked very well. Oh, and it's about a woman living through the changes to Germany in the early part of the twentieth century, kind of, and kind of about the early days of German films and kind of about Berlin during the Weimar Republic in general. If you are into that kind of thing, you will like this book - though I will warn the squick-adverse that it is rather awfully grim by times.
(175/300)
Tex and Molly in the Afterlife, by Richard Grant
A whackload of new age speculation, biology, religion mash-ups, wacky non-coincidences, and witty, entertaining story that might irritate me if it were non-fiction, but somehow that witty, entertaining story makes it all go down smoooooooooooooth. Feels like Matt Ruff's Fool on the Hill in some ways. Very tasty, prob. not for everybody - but I loved it. Grant's definitely on the find-more-of-this-soon list.
(176/300)
... the only nice thing about being sick is that really there is nothing that seems more appealing or more necessary than lying in bed polishing off novels. I'm a good chunk into the next one, too.
If I really enjoy a book, I'm always a bit cautious about trying another by the same author - especially if it's a sequel. What if that special shiny spark is gone? But in this case, second verse was even better than the first. Izzy Spellman is one of my favorite funny narrators. I actually teared up a bit at one point too, though that may be more hormonal than actually creditable to the writing.
(174/300)
The Glimmer Palace, by Beatrice Colin (ARC)
This book had a weird trick of being simultaneously gritty/factual-seeming and hazy/magic-realist. Nothing magical or impossible actually happens, it's just that everything has this bizarre larger-than-life quality to it, probably because of the authorial voice. The combination worked very well. Oh, and it's about a woman living through the changes to Germany in the early part of the twentieth century, kind of, and kind of about the early days of German films and kind of about Berlin during the Weimar Republic in general. If you are into that kind of thing, you will like this book - though I will warn the squick-adverse that it is rather awfully grim by times.
(175/300)
Tex and Molly in the Afterlife, by Richard Grant
A whackload of new age speculation, biology, religion mash-ups, wacky non-coincidences, and witty, entertaining story that might irritate me if it were non-fiction, but somehow that witty, entertaining story makes it all go down smoooooooooooooth. Feels like Matt Ruff's Fool on the Hill in some ways. Very tasty, prob. not for everybody - but I loved it. Grant's definitely on the find-more-of-this-soon list.
(176/300)
... the only nice thing about being sick is that really there is nothing that seems more appealing or more necessary than lying in bed polishing off novels. I'm a good chunk into the next one, too.
