Book reviews & analyses
The fourth Sandman book is where you get to meet the entire Endless family in one place – or at least the still-active ones. Season of Mists by Neil GaimanMy rating: 4 of 5 stars <spoiler alert> Destiny, the eldest, calls for a family conclave. Desire needles Dream about sentencing…
Dream Country by Neil GaimanMy rating: 4 of 5 stars <spoiler alert> The third Sandman novel is a collection of 4 short stories – 3 featuring Dream and 1 with Death. ‘Calliope’ tells of an imprisoned woman who just happens to be one of the Muses. Her captors are writers…
Sandman: The Doll’s House
Neil Gaiman’s “The Sandman 1: Preludes & Nocturnes” is a captivating tale of Dream’s imprisonment and subsequent adventures across realms and characters.
Discover the enchanting world of the Sandman universe with Neil Gaiman’s Endless Nights. Each story unveils the intriguing lives of the seven Endless siblings.
A review of ‘Salt & Saffron’ by Kamila Shamsie
This story of an 80s feminist is always a comfort read. And it brings up a question we’re still grappling with thirty years later.
The Cleft by Doris LessingMy rating: 1 of 5 stars This is an example of a mediocre (even bad) book with a promising blurb. The story of human creation, where the first beings were not men but only women (called Clefts). Boy children first appeared as anomalies of birth and…
A review of all three of The Hunger Games books by Suzanne Collins.
Do read my earlier post on Fifty Shades, if you haven’t already. I finished reading the second Fifty Shades book – Fifty Shades Darker. I retract everything I thought while reading the first. This is not a good book. This is not a good story. These aren’t strongly etched characters….