It’s Monday, What Are You Reading? (Oct. 18)

Read: The Banquet of Esther Rosenbaum by Penny Simpson (reviewed here) The Steamypunk Collection — (reviewed here) #1 A Man of the Waste by Margaret Killjoy; #2 A Pirate of Both Day & Night by Margaret Killjoy; #3 Emerson & Adalia by Dimitri Markotin; #4 Chaos Theory by Dimitri Markotin; #5 Emerson & Adalia Rob [...]

Review: The Banquet of Esther Rosenbaum by Penny Simpson

The Banquet of Ester Rosenbaum by Penny Simpson This is an odd novel, though I was fascinated by it. Time plays very funny within its pages and I don’t think I truly understood why until I got to the end. It was something I should have suspected from the beginning, but I guess I was [...]

It’s Monday, What Are You Reading? (Oct. 11)

Read: The Women of Nell Gwynne’s by Kage Baker — loved this, see review here! Beauty and the Beast: Human-animal Relations as Revealed in Real Photo Postcards, 1905-1935 by Arnold Arluke — I can’t say I really finished this one. I got a little squeamish at some of the pictures in the middle and sort [...]

flavor of words

The Banquet of Esther Rosenbaum — “We barter words and I feel like a wine taster, rolling his words on my tongue and finding rare subtleties in their many flavourings.” Penny Simpson, p51