Every Heart a Doorway Seanan McGuire Tor.com Release Date: April 5, 2016 ISBN 978-0-7653-8550-5 I’m just going to come out and say it: this little book is pert’ near perfect. You’ve heard the tales, of fairy abductions and changelings, of witches’ tricks and those children who simply disappeared, never to […]
Sex Criminals Volume 1 – One Weird Trick Volume 2 – Two Worlds, One Cop Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky My recommendation is going to be a short one this week, because I’ve got beaucoup things on my plate and not even enough time to use a knife and fork. […]
On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.