100 Books
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First off, a big Thank You! to Tracy for the subscription! Welcome aboard! I look forward to reading some of your posts, too! And now, to the review: “It sometimes helps to remind myself that not everyone is like me. Not everyone writes things down in a notebook and then transcribes them into a diary.…
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“God created Arrakis to train the faithful.” “Dune” by Frank Herbert Dune is one of those classics of literature, especially of the sci fi genre, that I have been sadly underexposed to. This time, however, it’s completely my fault. My father and my younger brother were both big into these books as I was growing…
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“Soon they could see the spire of Notre Dame de la Victoire–and then they were in the shadow of the rock itself. When she stepped upon the shore, Cécile remembered how Sister Catherine de Saint-Augustin, when she landed with her companions, had knelt down and kissed the earth. Had she been alone, she would have…
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“When he opened the door to 101, he felt a rush of hope. There, lying on the floor like a gift, was a shotgun. ” “Resident Evil: Zero Hour” by S.D. Perry Clearly, I picked up Resident Evil: Zero Hour, the “novelization of Resident Evil Zero” as a bit of a palette cleanser, and that…
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“To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only obligation.” “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho I’m always never really sure where I fit in with The Alchemist. This is my second time reading the book; the first was when I decided to pick it up with all the excited hype surrounding it when it was published…
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“I have chosen! God’s thumbs! What a time I had in deciding. I chose God’s thumbs because thumbs are such important things and handy to use. I thought to make a list of all the things I could not do without my thumbs, like writing, plaiting my hair, and pulling Perkin by his ear, but…
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“Stories, great flapping ribbons of shaped space-time, have been blowing and uncoiling around the universe since the beginning of time. And they have evolved. The weakest have died and the strongest have survived and they have grown fat on the retelling….stories, twisting and blowing through the darkness.” “Witches Abroad” by Terry Pratchett As I said…
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In contrast to February, March seems to be a very slowly moving month, and I think that might possibly be because I’m just not getting into the novel for this month as much as I thought I would. I’m still attempting to plod on with it, but I’ll be very glad when it’s April and…
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“Literature began as an aid to memory, and it continues to serve myth in that role, preserving a few strands of myth from extinction in the way endangered animal species are preservedby zoos and exotic plants by botanical gardens.” “Wisdom of the Mythtellers” by Sean Kane This is my second encounter with this book; my…
L.S. Engler 