100 Books
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“Only fools accept the obvious and go no further; use your brain, Jilly.“ “Restident Evil: The Umbrella Conspiracy” by S.D. Perry When I read the “first” (read: prequel; I don’t actually know which came first) book in the novelizations of the Resident Evil games, Zero Hour, I remember being pleasantly surprised by how much I…
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“Raindrops tap against the black-curtained windows like the fingers of beggar children pleading to be let in. No one moves.” “Tales of Terror: 58 Short Stories Chosen by the Master of Suspense” edited by Eleanor Sullivan This collection of 58 short stories packed into a pretty big, bulky book, has taken up quite a bit…
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“There would be a price. And Granny knew enough about wizardry to be certain that it would be a high one. But if you were worried about the price, then why were you in the shop?” “Equal Rites” by Terry Pratchett Anyone who follows this blog or my 100 Books project will know that I’m…
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“Who knows? On the internet everyone is anonymous. Almost anything you find there could have been created by a cat.” “Catopolis” edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Janet Deaver-Pack Catopolis, a collection of seventeen stories about “the ‘city of cats’ that exists on the same plane with humans, yet is hidden from us” came into…
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>”The Waiting. It became a distinct, tangible thing, as individual and real as Bread or Water. How long would he be in? How long would he be in? Night and day, asleep and waking, he worried it, and by his bunk saw waiting the figure of Waiting, a gray, foul ghost.” “It Can’t Happen Here”…
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“Jess drew the way some people drank whiskey. The peace would start at the top of his muddled brain and seep down through his tired and tensed-up body. Lord, he loved to draw.” “Bridge to Terabithia” by Katherine Paterson I’m almost certain that Bridge to Terabithia was one of those books, like Tuck Everlasting, The…
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“‘I feel like a child,’ he said. She laughed once more, rocking him with the expression. ‘That’s the way I usually feel.’” “Harpy Thyme: A Xanth Novel” by Piers Anthony My father was a great book lover, something the he very clearly passed along to his daughter, and, growing up, the house was just filled…
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“He finally decided that he was insane, and there was nothing to do but obey the voices. He started walking west. The voices stopped. He kept walking west. They did not return. He walked west until he reached the ocean, and walking any farther would have led to his death by drowning. As he stood…
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“She was thinking of white paper and dark ink, and the difficulty and danger of scoring a page with lines of ink, to make it sing, if it could. If she could make it.” “A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in the Wicked Years” by Gregory Maguire There is no denying that Gregory Maguire has…
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“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. -Vladimir Nabakov I have been a very busy bee this weekend, some of it voluntary, some of it not so much. As a result, not only have I been seeing…
L.S. Engler 