REVIEW: The Sandman 1: Preludes & Nocturnes – Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman’s “The Sandman 1: Preludes & Nocturnes” is a captivating tale of Dream’s imprisonment and subsequent adventures across realms and characters.
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REVIEW: Sandman: Endless Nights – Neil Gaiman – A Collector’s Copy
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.
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Modak For Mogambo
Spotted on the side of a building wall. I’m guessing the dangling man offering the modak came later. Street art is an ever evolving form, after all.
I Wear: Mad Men Mania!
There’s much that’s great about Mad Men – the story, the characters, the “Oh my God, it’s Lucky Strikes!” kind of references that have adpeople drooling. And then of course there are the clothes. Spanning the swirly skirts of the sixties to bellbottoms & miniskirts of the seventies (my favorite…
Salt & Saffron: Kamila Shamsie – Where you came from and where you’re going
A review of ‘Salt & Saffron’ by Kamila Shamsie
The Cleft: Doris Lessing – Great Idea Falls Flat
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…
I Style!: Moustache Ro!
If it’s been awhile since my last I Style! spotting, it’s because you people are just not being adventurous in what you wear!! But I guess what makes this fun is how a surprise might be waiting around any corner, any minute (oh, I really must carry that camera around…
55ers win over Culture Shoq’s Big Mic Vol.12
So I was at Culture Shoq’s Big Mic at IBar the Monday before last. And for the first time, I actually won. :-p I strung together four 55-word stories that I chaptered into a larger narrative called ‘Monsoon Romance’. They were Here’s my ‘performance’ (with apologies for the garbled voice,…
The Hunger Games Trilogy-Suzanne Collins : Starts great, deteriorates downhill
A review of all three of The Hunger Games books by Suzanne Collins.
BOOK: Fifty Shades of FAIL!
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….