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Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of books

{5/5} “Dani Cumali was murdered by a professional hit woman. A firm called Faircloud Associates have bought a discretion clause to close the case. Dani’s phone, the one that was registered to her, has been lost by the police. You were one of three people called from this device, which neither the killer nor the […]

Iron Winter

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of books

{4.5/5} “It was a question of how you thought about the world — not as a plaything of the gods to be accepted without question, but as a puzzle to be solved. And Avatak was drawn to the way Pyxeas’ mind worked as he challenged this huge, baffling, complex, secretive puzzle, and to the sheer […]

Bronze Summer

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of books

{4.5/5} “Somebody far back in our history realized that we have this basic problem of getting stuck in our ways. And that every so often the world changes, something new happens, and we have to be able to cope with it. So the Crows emerged. Like the other Houses, you can only join in you’re […]

The Riddle-Master of Hed

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{4/5} “You are Sol of Isig, caught up by fear between death and a door that has been closed for thousands of years. If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must be done.” The Riddle-Master of Hed by Patricia A. McKillip, published in […]

Stone Spring

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{4.5/5} “What if Zesi was right? What if she had been driven mad by the horrors of the Great Sea? She was still only fifteen years old, after all. Sometimes she still had nightmares of the man with no face, her father’s corpse washed up by the sea. Who was she to shape the future? […]

Carve the Sky

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of books

{4.5/5} “Most past antiquarian organizations have consisted of crabbed and constipated men poring over dusty manuscripts in obsolete alphabets and dreaming of times when antiquarians were respected. The Academia is a different matter altogether. They affect to study the human race, but actually feel responsible for its destiny.” Carve the Sky by Alexander Jablokov, published […]

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of movies

{4.5/5} “I’ll get you, my kitties, and your little dog too.” Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, released in 2022 Puss in Boots is a hero to some, a villain to others. While saving a town from a giant, he gets crushed by a bell. When he wakes up, the doctor warns him that he’s […]

Puss in Boots

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of movies

{4.5/5} “‘Is it true a cat always lands on its feet?’ ‘No, that is just a rumour spread by dogs.’” Puss in Boots, released in 2011 Puss in Boots is a fugitive, wanted by the law. But he doesn’t steal from churches or orphans. When men in a saloon reveal that Jack and Jill have […]

Good Omens (season 2)

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of TV shows

{5/5} “How much trouble can I get in for asking a few questions?” Good Omens season 2, aired in 2023 Aziraphale and Crowley first met each other in heaven, when the universe was created. When Gabriel shows up naked at Aziraphale’s shop, he seems to have amnesia but he things something terrible is going to […]

The Practice Effect

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of books

{4.5/5} “Deacon Hoss’k had made such a consistent and logical case! The wizard’s people must have used ruthless means to accomplish such wonders… especially to freeze the state of practice in each of these amazing tools. The lives of many of the equivalent of the L’Toff in Dennis Nuel’s homeland must have been sacrificed so […]