Dec 24
Merry Christmas for tomorrow, one and all. I will probably be out carousing with family, carolling with my kitty and generally Christmasing like crazy.
Thank you for your views this year and comments and stuff. You dudes are like the best dudes, evah.
And Mr Monster wishes you a Merry Christmas too, with this…
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See you next year! <3 And I will hopefully have a review of The Little Stranger soon… *ominous silence*
This is my favourite LOLcats time of year.
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Dec 18
For you, my gentle readers
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Ghostwritten
Description:
David Mitchell’s electrifying debut novel takes readers on a mesmerizing trek across a world of human experience through a series of ingeniously linked narratives.
Oblivious to the bizarre ways in which their lives intersect, nine characters-a terrorist in Okinawa, a record-shop clerk in Tokyo, a money-laundering British financier in Hong Kong, an old woman running a tea shack in China, a transmigrating “noncorpum” entity seeking a human host in Mongolia, a gallery-attendant-cum-art-thief in Petersburg, a drummer in London, a female physicist in Ireland, and a radio deejay in New York-hurtle toward a shared destiny of astonishing impact.
Like the book’s one non-human narrator, Mitchell latches onto his host characters and invades their lives with parasitic precision, making Ghostwritten a sprawling and brilliant literary relief map of the modern world.
BookieMonster says:
This book is one of my top ten books of all time. All time. It’s that good. Mitchell is one of the best writers of the turn of our century, virtuoso, often crazy, but he has the talent to carry it off in spectacular ways.
(Yes ANOTHER sub-$20 paperback from us – we are great value!)
The Well of Lost Plots
Description:
The third book in the Thursday Next series.
Leaving Swindon behind her to hide out in the ‘Well of Lost Plots’ (the place where all fiction is created), Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from within an unpublished book of dubious merit entitled “Caversham Heights”.
Landen, her husband, is still eradicated, Aornis Hades is meddling with Thursday’s memory, and Miss Havisham – when not sewing up plot-holes in ‘Mill on the Floss’ – is trying to break the land-speed record on the A409. But something is rotten in the state of Jurisfiction. Perkins is ‘accidentally’ eaten by the minotaur, and Snell succumbs to the Mispeling Vyrus.
As a shadow looms over popular fiction, Thursday must keep her wits about her and discover not only what is going on, but also who she can trust to tell about it …
With grammasites, holesmiths, trainee characters, pagerunners, baby dodos and an adopted home scheduled for demolition, “The Well of Lost Plots” is at once an addictively exciting adventure and an insight into how books are made, who makes them – and why there is no singular for ’scampi’.
BookieMonster says:
Seriously y’all (I’ve started saying “y’all” a lot, why? who knows? Anyway, back to the programme) if you haven’t read Jasper Fforde yet – why not? WHY NOT?
His books are witty, clever and fun – perfect, in fact, for some relaxing holiday reading that doesn’t rot your brain at the same time.
Stop brain-rot this Christmas! Give a Jasper Fforde book today!
Buy The Well of Lost Plots from BookieMonster for just $18.95! (remember when all paperbacks cost under $20? I do. I’m old, clearly)
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