The Sandman Vol 10: The Wake (1996) Neil Gaiman
The final book in The Sandman collection, volume 10, The Wake tells of the funeral of Morpheus, Dream of the Endless, and of how Dream rebuilds his realm, and meets the rest of his family.
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The Sandman Vol 9: The Kindly Ones (1996) Neil Gaiman
This is my least favorite book in the Sandman series. Part of it has to do with the fact that it’s a sad storyline. Normally in a book you have the good and bad parts together, however in the Sandman, there were eight books leading up to The Kindly Ones, so it’s pretty much all heartbreak.
The Sandman Vol 8: World’s End (1994) Neil Gaiman
This is my second favorite book in the Sandman series. Like my favorite, Fables and Reflections, it’s a collection of short stories. A disparate group of people are caught in storms and end up at World’s End: A Free House. As they all wait for the storm to abate, the sit, and eat and drink, and tell stories, and World’s End tells some of these stories.
The Sandman Vol 7: Brief Lives (1994) Neil Gaiman
In Brief Lives Delirium decides that she wants to search for her brother Destruction, who abandoned his job 300 years earlier. She goes first to Desire and Despair, both of whom tell her to abandon her idea of finding Destruction. After all, he had reasons why he left, and if he wanted to be found then he would have returned to them on his own.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1999) John Berendt
I read this book several years ago, after listening to the abridged version as an audio book. I was looking for something that I could read a little bit of and put down, so this seemed a good choice.
Well crap. I created this to publish on Saturday, and then forgot about it.
Better late than never I suppose.
2005 Banned Books Top Ten
1. THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART PRESENTS AMERICA (THE BOOK): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction, by Jon Stewart and the writers of The Daily Show
2. A WRINKLE IN TIME, by Madeleine L’Engle
3. IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN, by Maurice Sendak
4. KING & KING, by Linda De Haan and Stern Nijland
5. 1984, by George Orwell
6. THE HANDMAID’S TALE: A Novel, by Margaret Atwood
7. BLESS ME, ULTIMA, by Rudolfo Anaya
8. THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER, by Stephen Chbosky
9. THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, by Mark Twain
10. WHAT MY MOTHER DOESN’T KNOW, by Sonya Sones
The Sandman Vol 6: Fables & Reflections (1993) Neil Gaiman
This may be my favorite Sandman collection. There are several different tales told, some in the past, some in the far past, and all excellent.
Death: The Time of Your Life (1997) Neil Gaiman
This may be one of favorite Neil Gaiman graphic novels.
Foxglove is on tour and Hazel is home with Alvie, the child she was pregnant with in The High Cost of Living. Foxglove is falling apart at the seems, and Hazel has made a deal whose time is up.
Death: The High Cost of Living (1994) Neil Gaiman
It’s hardly a surprise that Neil Gaiman would write a comic about Death. In Sandman she was usually far more likable than her brother, Dream, the hero of the series.
The Sandman Vol 5: A Game of You (1992) Neil Gaiman
Barbie, who we first met in The Doll’s House, has moved to New York City after her break-up with Ken. She hasn’t dreamed for two years, when she was pulled into the dream vortex created by Rose Walker, but Barbie’s Dreamworld is not content to remain lost.
The Sandman Vol 4: Season of Mists (1991) Neil Gaiman
Season of MistsSeason of Mists is the story of Dream’s journey to Hell to free Nada, after he is confronted by the fact that he unjustly sent her there ten thousand years before. All the stories in Seasons of Mists are part of a single tale, of Dream’s trip to Hell, and the aftermath of that trip.
The Sandman Vol 3: Dream Country (1990) Neil Gaiman
Dream Country is the third book in the Sandman series. In this collection of short stories, Dream is peripheral character for the most part, though in “Facade” Death appears instead.
The Sandman Vol 2: The Doll’s House (1990) Neil Gaiman
There is a vortex in the Dreaming, that Dream must control before it destroys the Dreaming. He must also find four of the major arcana that have wandered from the Dreaming: Brute and Glob, the Corinthian, and Fiddler’s Green. Meanwhile, Rose Walker searches for her younger brother, and discovered that she has a before unknown grandmother–Unity Kinkaid.
Today’s word of the day is perfect.
execrable \EK-si-kruh-bul\ adjective
1 : deserving to be execrated : detestable
*2 : very bad : wretched
It perfectly describes last night’s movie. Though really, I think wretched fits better. As in, “yesterday evening we watched Alexander and it was wretched.”
How on earth did they manage to make a movie about Alexander the Great so bad? Especially when the acting was so good? But, no. I was bored even through the bashing with swords bits. The scenes between Alexander and Hephaistion were nice, as were the dancing girls, but beyond that?
The jumps in time really were execrable, interrupting the flow of the story, time and again. If I had to point to the single biggest problem I had with the movie, that would be it.
The accents were confusing–if they were from the same region, why did they have different accents? As he traveled, encountering different accents made sense, but why would a group of people living in Macedonia–especially a group of children who grew up together–have different accents? It just made it even harder to keep track of who was who, which was already a next-to-impossible job.
And his eyebrows. I couldn’t stop staring at his eyebrows. They were so brown. And his hair was so blonde. My disbelief kept jumping up and saying, “that’s just odd looking. Why wouldn’t they have been bleached in the sun like his hair?”
I just don’t get it. I LOVE history. And a movie where the guys run around scantily clad the whole time should have plenty of redeeming qualities. But no. I just kept asking, “is it over yet?”
So, bah. Hopefully the rest of the movies we rented will be better.
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