Vermilion

The Adventures of Lou Merriweather, Psychopomp

Molly Tanzer, 2015

(May 2015)

  

High in the Rocky Mountains of late nineteenth-century Colorado there is a sanatorium. It is run by one Dr. Panacea. That's Dr. Panacea. You can now be confident to the ninety-fifth percentile as to whether this book is something you’ll enjoy as rambunctious fun, or if it will only serve to annoy the everloving shit out of you.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz, 2007

(May 2015)

I want to write more about this book. This book deserves to have more written about it. Unfortunately though I’ve had a ton of deadlines recently, so while I only read this a couple of weeks ago my mind’s been so cramped since then I’m not sure I’ve got much in the way of intelligent – or at the very least interesting – comment left to pass. No change there then, eh? (Etc, etc, and so forth.)

Rat Queens

Vol. 2: The Far Reaching Tentacles of N’Rygoth

Kurtis J. Wiebe, Roc Upchurch, Stjepan Sejic, 2015

(May 2015)

Less of the sass this time around, which is no bad thing. Rat Queens continues to be best described as bloody good fun.

Archangel

Marguerite Reed, 2015
(March 2015)

Reviewed over at Strange Horizons.

Honest Abe

Abe Shinzo gave a speech to congress a couple of days ago, and now I am conflicted.