Monthly Archives: August 2009
A Grimm updating – Margo Lanagan’s Tender Morsels
Margo Lanagan’s Tender Morsels is a remade fairy tale which explores and updates the Snow White and Rose Red fairy tale. In the Brothers’ Grimm tale, Snow White and Rose Red, daughters of a widow, look after a bear during … Continue reading
A fix of Fix – Naming of the Beasts by Mike Carey
Earlier this year, I picked up Thicker than Water by Mike Carey as I finally made time to catch up on my Felix Castor kick. I had a feeling that there was a certain amount of Carey getting Castor to … Continue reading
Mysterious Houses – Dark Entries by Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin’s Dark Entries is a locked room crime novel with a haunted house twist. Or is that a haunted house novel with a crime twist. Whatever, it is good. One of the first publications in the Vertigo Crime list … Continue reading
A portrait of young ladies – Michelle Zink’s Prophecy of the Sisters
Michelle Zink‘s debut novel, Prophecy of the Sisters, is an intriguing debut which certainly promises a lot for the rest of the series. I picked this up as a curiosity to see what it was like and found that I … Continue reading
Through Doll’s Eyes – The Toymaker by Jeremy de Quidt
Jeremy de Quidt’s The Toymaker is a fabulously strange book which extends the conversation regarding puppets that Steve Cockayne and, on a more metaphysical level, Philip Pullman started and moving towards the Frankenstein myth. It was shortlisted for the Brandford … Continue reading
Watch your step on Greek Street
I approached the Greek Street series by Peter Milligan a little warily but it seems to fit into an emerging patterns about comics doing meta-fiction and musing on the recurrence of narratives, what with Mike Carey’s The Unwritten as well. … Continue reading
Who are you? – Julie Hearn’s Rowan the Strange
Julie Hearn‘s Rowan the Strange is, at once, a fairy tale and also a riff of One flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest or, perhaps, the Bell Jar.It continues her exporation through questions of identity that she has explored in books … Continue reading