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Book Review...and well books in general
Aug. 27th, 2019 09:07 pmGot suckered by SmartBitches into purchasing A Curious Beginning (Veronica Speedwell Mysteries #1) by Deanna Rayburn which is on sale for .99 cents at Amazon Kindle.
After burying her spinster aunt, orphaned Veronica Speedwell is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry—and the occasional romantic dalliance. As familiar with hunting butterflies as with fending off admirers, Veronica intends to embark upon the journey of a lifetime.
But fate has other plans when Veronica thwarts her own attempted abduction with the help of an enigmatic German baron, who offers her sanctuary in the care of his friend Stoker, a reclusive and bad-tempered natural historian. But before the baron can reveal what he knows of the plot against her, he is found murdered—leaving Veronica and Stoker on the run from an elusive assailant as wary partners in search of the villainous truth.
I can use my credits -- for the items I've returned. I returned "In Her Defense by Juliana Keyes" today after giving up on it, I'd made it through three-four chapters or approximately forty pages, when I realized, I hate this book. Good bye.
So back it went. You can do this with Amazon -- but alas, you have to be quick about it. They will not allow you to return books that you've had for several weeks. Or over a week or several days. So, I can't return the Twitty book, although I may go back to it at some point. I didn't hate that book -- just wasn't in the mood.
(In Her Defense is the book I was whinging about in last night's post.)
In other book news, I just finished the Neil Gaiman/Colleen Doran graphic novel Snow, Glass, Apples -- which is graphic novel adaptation of Gaiman's chapbook short story retelling of the Snow White fairy tale. The art takes center stage in this one and it is brilliant, also Gaiman's tale is haunting and horrifying/witty in Gaiman's signature style.
In this version, the Queen is the hero, Snow White is the monster -- although the book raises many unanswered questions at the end. What I found rather innovative and also, when I thought about it - of course, that makes total sense, why hasn't anyone else come up with this? ( spoiler )
The narrative is completely in the Queen's point of view. And it is just a narrative, no dialogue.
Illustrator and comic book artist Colleen Doran's art is beautiful and different. She applies the techniques of Harry Clark.
( interview with Colleen Doran )
Artists influence each other, as my brother used to tell me, art is in the interaction with the material and what others bring to it and take away from it. The biggest compliment you can pay any artist is when you borrow their techniques, or characters or world to play with on your own -- it means on some level they hit you at your core.
I'm very visual -- I think in pictures. ( Read more... )
After burying her spinster aunt, orphaned Veronica Speedwell is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry—and the occasional romantic dalliance. As familiar with hunting butterflies as with fending off admirers, Veronica intends to embark upon the journey of a lifetime.
But fate has other plans when Veronica thwarts her own attempted abduction with the help of an enigmatic German baron, who offers her sanctuary in the care of his friend Stoker, a reclusive and bad-tempered natural historian. But before the baron can reveal what he knows of the plot against her, he is found murdered—leaving Veronica and Stoker on the run from an elusive assailant as wary partners in search of the villainous truth.
I can use my credits -- for the items I've returned. I returned "In Her Defense by Juliana Keyes" today after giving up on it, I'd made it through three-four chapters or approximately forty pages, when I realized, I hate this book. Good bye.
So back it went. You can do this with Amazon -- but alas, you have to be quick about it. They will not allow you to return books that you've had for several weeks. Or over a week or several days. So, I can't return the Twitty book, although I may go back to it at some point. I didn't hate that book -- just wasn't in the mood.
(In Her Defense is the book I was whinging about in last night's post.)
In other book news, I just finished the Neil Gaiman/Colleen Doran graphic novel Snow, Glass, Apples -- which is graphic novel adaptation of Gaiman's chapbook short story retelling of the Snow White fairy tale. The art takes center stage in this one and it is brilliant, also Gaiman's tale is haunting and horrifying/witty in Gaiman's signature style.
In this version, the Queen is the hero, Snow White is the monster -- although the book raises many unanswered questions at the end. What I found rather innovative and also, when I thought about it - of course, that makes total sense, why hasn't anyone else come up with this? ( spoiler )
The narrative is completely in the Queen's point of view. And it is just a narrative, no dialogue.
Illustrator and comic book artist Colleen Doran's art is beautiful and different. She applies the techniques of Harry Clark.
( interview with Colleen Doran )
Artists influence each other, as my brother used to tell me, art is in the interaction with the material and what others bring to it and take away from it. The biggest compliment you can pay any artist is when you borrow their techniques, or characters or world to play with on your own -- it means on some level they hit you at your core.
I'm very visual -- I think in pictures. ( Read more... )