I began Vanity Dies Hard with the working hypothesis that Ruth Rendell was infallibly brilliant, and that even if her books were not as emotionally satisfying as Anna’s Book, they would always have satisfying and elegant plots like Anna’s Book did. I was most disappointed. Vanity Dies Hard had an ending that was the biggest let-down since the ending of The Machinist. (Did you see The Machinist? I already didn’t like Christian Bale, but my God, even for a movie containing Christian Bale, The Machinist was awful.) Anyway, I had to create a new hypothesis based on my new data. …
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Wolf Woman, Sherryl Jordan
Published 25 Mar 2008
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Gin Jenny
I swear to God I will try and say some eloquent things about Night Watch which I am really enjoying, but I can’t even be bothered with Wolf Woman. Sherryl Jordan? What happened here? Have you no sense of humor at all? This is not an interesting story and exhibits a woeful lack of any sense of humor at all ever even a little bit ever.
Leave a CommentHeck Superhero, by Martine Leavitt
Published 24 Feb 2008
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Gin Jenny
Martine Leavitt is still my new BFF, and great respect to her for raising seven kids and still managing to write books, but I didn’t like Heck Superhero as much as The Dollmage and Keturah. I think that writing in the present time may just not be her thing, and it may actually be necessary for her to set her stories in strange, alternate versions of England from back in the day. Heck Superhero is about a kid whose mother goes MIA, and as a result of some pretty spectacular magic thinking (he’s only a kid, so this is permissible),…
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