![]() Finally, there were the authors, like Ellery Queen and Patrick Quentin, who divided their careers into significant periods and experimented often, with varying degrees of success. John Dickson Carr’s modernized his style and experimented a little with historical thrillers, but basically he remained the JDC of old until the bitter end. Some of them, like Gladys Mitchell, Rex Stout and Ngaio Marsh, may or may not have improved in their craft but seemed content to never vary their content or style. ![]() ![]() “Dispute not with her: she is lunatic” William Shakespeare, RICHARD IIIĭespite the fact that Golden Age detective fiction is enjoying a renaissance, and long forgotten authors have been excavated for our pleasure, it is the career writers, those who published across the decades, who are a mystery fan’s bread and butter. (And really, you should read this book before the movie comes out!) If you have not read Crooked House yet, I hope you will join in after you have done so. WARNING: This post attempts to analyze and reflect upon a work of detective fiction, and as such, certain plot points will be discussed, including the solution to the murders. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The texts are included in their unabridged forms, illustrated by a representative selection of Lionni's ever playful watercolors and bold paper cutouts. ![]() The collection features such enduring, endearing favorites as Frederick, Fish Is Fish, Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse, Cornelius, Swimmy, A Color of His Own, and Six Crows. Since then, he has written 39 more books, 16 of which appear (partially illustrated) in this lovely treasury, which includes a personal introduction by the author. When award-winning author and illustrator Leo Lionni was young, he answered the question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" with a thoroughly unique reply: "The bell of the trolley car." He continued taking the nontraditional approach to life, writing his first children's book at age 50. ![]() ![]() ![]() Brilliantly documenting both the dark and the light, Good Faeries/Bad Faeries presents a world of enchantment and magic that deeply compels the imagination. ![]() ![]() ![]() The faery kingdom, we find, is as subject to good and evil as the human realm. Terri Windling’s prose seems the inevitable accompaniment to Brian Froud’s artwork, and remains true to the stated premise of the book: Faeries are not a fantasy. In addition to such good faeries as Dream Weavers and Faery Godmothers, Brian introduces us to a host of less well behaved creatures - traditional bad faeries like Morgana le Fay, but also the Soul Shrinker and the Gloominous Doom. I recognized many of these creatures immediately, especially some of the bad faeries, such as the Bad Hair Day Faery, the Fee Lion, the Ear Poker, and the Out-of-the-Blue Faery. In this richly imagined new book, Brian reveals the secrets he has learned from the faeries - what their noses and shoes look like, what mischief and what gentle assistance they can give, what their souls and their dreams are like.Īs it turns out, faeries aren't all sweetness and light. In the long-awaited sequel to the international bestseller Faeries, artist Brian Froud rescues pixies, gnomes, and other faeries from the isolation of the nursery and the distance of history, bringing them into the present day with vitality and imagination. That was before they burst upon my life as vibrant, luminous beings, permeating my art and my everyday existence, causing glorious havoc." "Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. ![]() ![]() At least, that’s my guess, as I haven’t read any author notes. ![]() wrong, and Chiang has managed to translate that into a kind of steampunk-ish robot setting. This time the main focus is on neuroscience, and the debate on the classic boxological Theory Of Mind: do our brains have representations of their content inside their brains, or not? The Nobel Prize winning research by Kandel and O’Keefe & the Mosers on rats has proven the classic T.o.M. It tries to convey a message – the clichéd ‘be thankful for the wonder of existence’, but more importantly, because it follows the typical Chiang template: he read some interesting stuff, and tries to mold his newfound wisdom into a story. But sadly, for my taste, it’s also a bit too didactic, for two reasons. It turned out to be a typical Chiang story: exquisitely crafted, good prose, convincing atmosphere, smart ideas. ![]() As it is available for free on Lightspeed Magazine’s site, I decided to read just that. It also won three major awards: the Hugo, Locus and BSFA. But then I read a glowing review on Speculiction that dubbed the title story “one of the greatest science fiction stories ever written”. So at first I decided to skip Exhalation: Stories, his second collection, published in 2019. ![]() There’s something about this guy: he can write – but are these really, truly stories? I was conflicted about Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang’s much lauded first collection. ![]() |