what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{4/5} “You’d think they’d never seen a girl and a cat on a broom before.” Kiki is a young witch in training — that means, at age 13, she leaves home to live somewhere else for a year. She finds a town where the people initially seem unfriendly but she eventually finds some friendlier residents. […]
{4.5/5} “We hide from the Shing. Also we hide from what we were. Do you see that, Falk? We live well in the houses — well enough. But we are ruled utterly by fear. There was a time we sailed in ships between the stars, and now we dare not go a hundred miles from […]
{4/5} “No sudden movements. And no questions for tonight. The first night is always the most difficult.” Peter and Lorna decide to infiltrate a cult in order to expose it — Maggie, the woman the cult was formed around, claims to be from the future. Every time they go see her they have to go […]
{4/5} “You can experience nature’s contrasts as struggle and dissent, or as unity and harmony.” Elderly married couple Hermann and Anna don’t want to live without each other. When Anna gets sick, they decide to transfer their minds into younger bodies. The young people, Apolain and Sarah, have supposedly consented to this act — their […]
{4.5/5} “They looked at her. She had heard that farborns would meet one’s eyes straight on, but did not put the story to test. At least none of them stopped her; her clothing was not unlike theirs, and some of them, she saw in her quick flicking glances, were not very much darker-skinned than men. […]
{4.5/5} “Still trying to figure out if you’re supposed to kill me or give me a pep talk.” Like Jason Bourne, Aaron is part of a top-secret program run by the CIA. Unfortunately that program is being shut down — which means all operatives are killed. Like Bourne, Aaron is smart, fast — and he […]
{4.5/5} “I am the apex predator.” Andrew’s mother is ill, his father is a drunk, and he’s not particularly well liked at school. While at a party he explores a cave with Matt, his cousin, and Steve, another classmate. There’s something otherworldly in the cave, which fills in after they leave so they can’t go […]
{4/5} “Why don’t you just tell her there’s no Santa?” Polly breaks up with her husband and shows up unannounced at her parents’ doorstep with her daughter. Her mom and stepdad are happy to have them until they can get back on their feet. Her mom speaks her mind at all times, and her stepdad […]
{4.5/5} “The kind of ship Rocannon had come here on took years and years to ride the night between the worlds, those years to the men in the ship seemed only a few hours. In the City Kerguelen on the star Forrosul this man Rocannon had spoken to Semley of Hallan and given her the […]
{4/5} “That was where it began — the Library Beast, he thought of it, threatening to consume him — the knowledge that had every day taken a bit of his humanity and rubbed it thin, pushing him closer to some sort of personal crisis. There was no way — yet — to deal with what […]