8.21.2015

 

Blackwood Farm



by Anne Rice, 528 pgs, hardcover
Series: Series: The Vampire Chronicles book 9, The Mayfair Witches
Overall Grade: C

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7.02.2015

 

Vittorio the Vampire


by Anne Rice, 288 pgs, hardcover
Series: Vampire Chronicles;  New Tales of the Vampires #2
Overall Grade: B

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# posted by Cptn. Suz @ 4:27 PM

11.04.2013

 

Coraline

by Neil Gaiman, illustrations by Dave McKean, 163 pgs, hardcover
Overall Grade: C+

Coraline is a girl who moves into a new home. Her parents are very laissez-faire so she is mostly left to her own devices to explore the house and property, and meet the other tenants. One door in her home has been bricked off, but Coraline finds that it might not necessarily lead nowhere. And what is waiting for her through the door will test her resolve and her resourcefulness.

Another work to check off the list as I plow through Gaiman's bibliography. This is probably much creepier to younger readers than it was to me.

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# posted by Cptn. Suz @ 11:20 PM

9.23.2013

 

Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions

by Neil Gaiman, 339pgs, hardcover
Overall Grade: B

An anthology of stories, drabbles, poetry, and novellas by Neil Gaiman over a range of topics and genres.

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# posted by Cptn. Suz @ 5:52 PM

8.16.2013

 

Somewhere Beneath Those Waves

by Sarah Monette, 327 pgs, paperback
Overall Grade: A+

Monette's prose is gorgeous. This book is an anthology of short stories, some appearing in print for the first time. The genres vary greatly, some are fantasy, some are horror, some are sci-fi, and some are hard to pin down. As you can guess, it's a bit hard to summarize such a diverse array of literature. I will say that I thoroughly enjoyed the whole collection, and would especially recommend it to any fans of Monette's other works!

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# posted by Cptn. Suz @ 6:32 PM

4.14.2013

 

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith, 317 pgs, paperback
parody of 'Pride and Prejudice' by Jane Austen
Overall Grade: B

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