Media Roll Call
Jun. 10th, 2012 09:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mindsplinters23) Kept by Zoe Winters - First novel as I understand it by this author. Short and fairly to the point. It shows promise and the writing itself was pretty good but you can also tell she's getting the hang of her world. It could have stood another few thousand words to make the transitions smoother. I get the feeling that she's really built the world in her head - the logic and rules and all. She just didn't use it here for some reason. Fast read, though, and entertaining for killing time.
24a) Dick And Jane And Vampires by Laura Marchesani - Yeah, I'm counting this but only as half a book so don't give me that look. Besides, it's a book and it took time to read. Not much time, admittedly, but time. Most of the time spent giggling maniacally and enjoying the retro-rific pictures... And, yes, this is exactly what you think it is. The Dick and Jane story but with a vampire. Cute as hell and totally worth the 2 bucks.
24b) Mercury by Hope Larson - Included as half a book because it's a graphic novel. It's a lovely black and white tale of magical realism set in Nova Scotia. The line work is simple and clean, the storytelling sparse. A nice weaving of two separate timelines and realities with touches of romance and old mythologies. My only gripe might be a certain lack of clarity and closure on some points but, if you know your stories, you can work it out yourself. A keeper.
25) Dragon Fantastic edited by Rosalind M Greenberg and Martin H Greenberg - An utterly mediocre anthology that makes me glad I read it mostly at work so I can pretend I got paid to read it. The one or two good stories in it didn't redeem it, sadly. One of the main problems, really, was the fact that many of the stories seemed to be parts of longer works or already established worlds... that had no other grounding in the stories themselves. Short stories in an anthology should stand alone. They can be part of a larger world or work but, by all that is sensible, you shouldn't have to find the other work to be able to understand what's going on.
24a) Dick And Jane And Vampires by Laura Marchesani - Yeah, I'm counting this but only as half a book so don't give me that look. Besides, it's a book and it took time to read. Not much time, admittedly, but time. Most of the time spent giggling maniacally and enjoying the retro-rific pictures... And, yes, this is exactly what you think it is. The Dick and Jane story but with a vampire. Cute as hell and totally worth the 2 bucks.
24b) Mercury by Hope Larson - Included as half a book because it's a graphic novel. It's a lovely black and white tale of magical realism set in Nova Scotia. The line work is simple and clean, the storytelling sparse. A nice weaving of two separate timelines and realities with touches of romance and old mythologies. My only gripe might be a certain lack of clarity and closure on some points but, if you know your stories, you can work it out yourself. A keeper.
25) Dragon Fantastic edited by Rosalind M Greenberg and Martin H Greenberg - An utterly mediocre anthology that makes me glad I read it mostly at work so I can pretend I got paid to read it. The one or two good stories in it didn't redeem it, sadly. One of the main problems, really, was the fact that many of the stories seemed to be parts of longer works or already established worlds... that had no other grounding in the stories themselves. Short stories in an anthology should stand alone. They can be part of a larger world or work but, by all that is sensible, you shouldn't have to find the other work to be able to understand what's going on.
