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Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark is Rising Sequence) review

Posted : 8 months, 3 weeks ago on 16 February 2009 02:56 (A review of Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark is Rising Sequence))

Okay, so somewhere in my mind I knew that this series was related to Arthurian legend, but it really didn’t clue in until the characters actually started talking about King Arthur. I have no idea how this could have happened, but there you go. So it was a very pleasant realization.

The three children in this book, Simon, Jane and Barney, are on their summer vacation with their family and their Great Uncle Merry and are staying in an old house in Cornwall. While exploring the attic of the home one day, Barney finds an old manuscript that the children hope will lead them to treasure. They soon discover that the treasure they are hoping for is more important than they had expected - it is the Holy Grail that King Arthur and his Knights quested for, and it is a great weapon in the fight of Good against Evil.

With the help of their Great Uncle Merry, the children must decipher the clues in the manuscript and find the grail before the people working on the behalf of evil find it.

I really did enjoy this book. It wasn’t a favourite of books I’ve read; it did take me a long time to get into it, and it didn’t have the draw to it where I absolutely needed to continue reading it. But it was enjoyable. Cute, fun and relating to King Arthur.

One of the things that stuck out most to me about this book was that it felt like it could take place at any time, during any decade, even though it was written over 40 years ago. It’s timeless - there was no mention of technology, which would have dated it, and it doesn’t come across as taking place before we were dependent on televisions, cellphones or computers. I love it when books like this can be as modern-feeling as they must have when they were originally published.

And there were so many wonderful passages that made me warm and fuzzy on the inside. Such as this one, where Great Uncle Merry is talking with the children when they first show him the manuscript. He’s explaining to them the meaning behind the manuscript:

“You remember the fairy stories you were told when you were very small – ‘once upon a time . . .’ Why do you think they always began like that?”

“Because they weren’t true,” Simon said promptly.

Jane said, caught up in the unreality of the high remote place, “Because perhaps they were true once, but nobody could remember when.”

Great-Uncle Merry turned his head and smiled at her. “That’s right. Once upon a time . . . a long time ago . . . things that happened once, but have been talked about for so long that nobody really knows. And underneath all the bits that people have added, the magic swords and lamps, they’re all about one thing – the good hero fighting the giant, or the witch, or the wicked uncle. Good against bad. Good against evil.”

It is a rather inspiring bit, isn’t it? Good versus evil! Magic! Heroes! Quests for Holy Grails! My imagination thrills at the thought of it all! So in that respect, it was a positively wonderful book to spend the end of my holidays reading. I’m definitely going to be reading the rest of the book in Cooper’s The Dark is Rising sequence.

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Frozen Fire review

Posted : 8 months, 3 weeks ago on 16 February 2009 02:55 (A review of Frozen Fire)

"I’m dying,” said the voice.

What a way to start a book. Hooked right from the beginning, I was.

About 20 minutes before midnight, Dusty’s phone rings. And it’s an unknown boy on the other line, about her age, who is trying to kill himself. All he wants is a friendly voice to listen to while he dies. At first, Dusty is a little frightened, but becomes so much more-so when he says the exact same words that were the last words her brother ever spoke to her. After the boy hangs up the phone on Dusty, she races out determined to find him, following his footprints in the snow through the nearby park, only to find the footprints and the boy have completely disappeared.

So starts Dusty’s journey to discover who exactly this boy is, why people are hunting him down (and her due to her association with him), and what exactly happened to her brother when he disappeared a few years ago.

Wow, I don’t do it justice at all.

This is a perfect “curling up in bed with a cup of tea on a January or February night with a book” kind of book. It has to be one of those months in order to get the feeling of the book right – the snow is such a big part of the book that it needs to be reflected in the outside world in order to appreciate it and get into it fully.

There are so many things that I want to say about this book. It started off being deliciously creepy, and ended off being beautifully heartbreaking. It was intense (oh so intense!) and yet didn’t leave me with a book hangover like I would have expected. It left unanswered questions, so I know I’m going to keep thinking about (and possibly coming back to) the book as I wonder what happens after it has ended - what happens to the boy? What happens to Dusty? What was going on with the light, and what about the heat radiating from the paper? So many unanswered questions, and yet the book didn’t feel unfinished. There was a sense of closure, even if there was so much more that I wanted to know.

I can’t help but wonder - are all of Bowler’s books like this? If so, I definitely want to read more of them! But I want to hear from other people about that first. I liked Frozen Fire so much that I’m afraid I might not like any others quite as much as I liked it.

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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy) review

Posted : 8 months, 3 weeks ago on 16 February 2009 02:52 (A review of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy))

The second book in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe starts off with Arthur, Ford Prefect, Trillian and Zaphod Beeblebrox aboard the Heart of Gold while the Vogans are attempting to finish their job of distroying human life - because Vogans hate to leave any job unfinished. Plus, there is a group of psychiatrists who want an end to the whole discovering of the Question to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything.

In order to prevent the Vogans from distroying the Heart of Gold, Beeblebrox decides to hold a seance in hopes that his dead ancestors will not want to spend the rest of eternity with him and will help their group out of the trouble they’ve found themselves in. Which is when Beeblebrox discovers that he became President of the Galaxy in order to meet the man who runs the universe. Only he doesn’t remember this plan - at all. Nevertheless, his dead great grandfather sends him off to meet other people who were in on this plan.

Of course, Beeblebrox decides he doesn’t want to be involved in this plan, no longer wants the Heart of Gold, and lots of hijinks ensue - including hijacking a ship that is destined to fly directly into a star, going to the restaurant at the end of the universe, and leaving Ford and Arthur abandoned on earth in a time where Arthur and Ford join the group of people who will become the human race.

It’s about time I got around to reading this book. I read the first one three years ago now… wow, I didn’t realize it’s been that long, and I’m rather embarrassed about that fact. Hopefully I can read Life, the Universe and Everything before another three years has passed.

Anyway! This was a lovely good romp in the scifi genre. I haven’t read much scifi lately - some dystopian which could be considered, but no real space books. And it reflects most of the scifi that I’ve been watching on television as of late - the funny scifi stuff that doesn’t take itself too seriously. The best kind there is, I would have to say.

So I did enjoy it, but I really don’t have anything particular to say about it. I don’t remember too much about the first book other than what is in the movie (and we all know how movies differ from the books they’re based on) so I can’t really say how much more I liked one book than the other. I know this is a classic, and so many people LOVE it, so I’m rather ashamed to say this, but while I did like it, I didn’t enjoy it enough to consider it a favourite, or to say that I know I will for sure reread it one day.

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Climbing the Stairs review

Posted : 8 months, 3 weeks ago on 16 February 2009 02:50 (A review of Climbing the Stairs)

August, 1941 in Bombay, India. Vidya is a teenage girl in a Brahman family. Her father is a doctor, volunteering as an Indian freedom fighter, her brother is in college, and her mother really just wants to see Vidya married happily. One day, after they have dropped off Vidya’s uncle at the train station, the family’s life changes drastically.

On their drive home from the train station, Vidya and her father encounter a protest. Vidya wants nothing more than to be able to join them, and so rushes into the crowd. Soon, the British police arrive on the scene and start beating the protesters; in order to protect one woman whom the police are brutally beating, Vidya’s father shields this woman, and ends up getting his head crushed. Though not dead, he has massive brain damage and is more of a shell than the person Vidya and her family loved.

As her father can no longer take care of them, Vidya’s family must move to Madras to join her grandfather’s traditional home. Living in the house are a number of Vidya’s aunts and uncles, and the brother-in-law (Raman) of one of Vidya’s aunts. Vidya has a very tough time adjusting - doesn’t make friends at school, is bullied by two of her aunts, and has to deal with the guilt of believing she’s caused her father’s infirmity. The only place where she finds refuge is the forbidden library in her grandfather’s home, and she soon develops a strong friendship with Raman during their time spent in the library.

I have to say that I enjoyed reading this book. It took me less than the span of a weekend to get through the whole thing. The characters were believable, and there was enough depth that I could like certain ones and dislike others completely. It also had some paralleling with Cinderella, though I wouldn’t consider this a retelling of the story at all - just some similar elements like the evil family members who are only sort of related to the main character, that make her do more than her share of housework.

The last chapter… I really wish it wasn’t included in the book. It acted more as an epilogue than anything else, and I have a habit of NOT liking epilogues. I mean, did you read the one in Deathly Hallows? Wasn’t it ghastly? Anyway, the one in this book was written as a letter from Vidya to Raman, but it didn’t carry Vidya’s voice in it; it didn’t mesh with the rest of the book. And I had a minor quibble with the last couple of sentences in the book, as they had the feeling of “Yayz America! Best Country Evar!” in a way that wasn’t like Vidya’s voice previously and quite frankly made me roll my eyes. I realize the book is written by an American author for an American audience, but it felt a little bit too over-the-top for me to find it believable.

Other than that, I thought the book was quite good and enjoyable. It was emotional - made me tear up at least once (but what would you expect from a book that takes place during WWII?) - and transported me fully to WWII-era India. Gave the full picture of what it would’ve been like to actually be there, and it was beautiful.

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ikonica: A Field Guide to Canada's Brandscape review

Posted : 8 months, 3 weeks ago on 16 February 2009 02:48 (A review of ikonica: A Field Guide to Canada's Brandscape)

It took me a lot longer to read this book than anticipated. I had started it over the Christmas holidays, and just finished it this morning. While I had been hoping to also finish it over the Christmas holidays, I quickly learned that I needed to take a break from it after each section, or interview, in order to let any insights sink in. I’m sure I’ve forgotten quite a bit of them already, but it’s good to go away and think about it before coming back for more.

Jeanette Hanna and Alan Middleton have put together a book that looks at some of Canada’s most successful brands - whether they are companies that are 100% Canadian, or whether the company started elsewhere in the world, and their Canadian branch of the company has become a successful brand in Canada. To introduce the book, they start off with a look at Canadian history, brands that haven’t been successful (Eaton’s, anyone?), brands that probably need to change in order to keep going (The Bay), and what it means to be a successful brand. The majority of the book, however, is a series of interviews with people involved in some of Canada’s strongest brands - Tim Horton’s, Canadian Tire, Cirque du Soliel, and the ROM are just a few of the companies included. (There are 24 interviews included, all from different companies.) Each of these interviews talks about what it is that makes their company’s brand so strong and successful, and how they’ve become that successful brand.

This was such an interesting book! There was so much stuff about companies that we are all (okay, all of us Canadians) so familiar with, and little tidbits included about these companies that I didn’t know about previously. So cool! For example, The Bay! They have these awesome point blankets, and they were first created in 1780 - and are still sold today. The coloured stripes on the blanket had a special significance for Aboriginal customers at the time - green for new life, red for hurt, yellow for harvest and sunshine, and blue for water. And what Canadian hasn’t seen something from the Bay with those colours included? (Though, they’re not used as much anymore.) But I never thought that they started using those coloured stripes back in the late 18th century. Very cool.

One thing that definitely struck me about this book was that it was a good example of the Canadian demographics - so many of the people interviewed (as well as the authors) were all immigrants to Canada. Could it be more fitting for or representative of our country?

Overall, there were a lot of interesting insights into the Canadian marketplace and Canadian branding that I didn’t know. There was a lot that I had suspected - Canadians being very skeptical about advertising, for example. It told how successful brands became successful, what they’ve done to stay successful, how they’ve had to change their businesses and brands in order to become what they are today. The end of the book noted some trends that seem to be consistent throughout some of the most successful Canadian brands:

Strong, positive leadership: Their passion is not for making money, per se, but for performance that attracts customers. While good business management and profit are table stakes, what drives successful leader and their organizations is creating value on many dimensions.

Clear brand meaning: A raison d’etre that the organization must “stretch” to achieve.

Integrity in approach: Based on real values of respect for customers, employee and communities with values that come from a sense of humanity rather than the often-synthetic values of marketing.

Teamwork: The brand is not just the preview of the marketing department but is shared by HR, Finance, Operations, Sales; every part of the organization is ultimately engaged.

Learning and persistence: Ikonic brands don’t happen overnight; they sometimes falter and take wrong turns. But they endure by learning from successes and failures.

Measurement: Navigating the brandscape is a process of continuous calibration based on prevailing conditions. Are we on course? Brand leaders have developed numerous formal and informal feedback loops to keep them relevant and close to the prevailing winds.

Aside from all the interesting content that this book covers, it is a beautiful book. The page design is lovely and there are so many beautiful pictures (though the full-page picture of George Stroumboulopoulos was rather …. distracting and somewhat scary from the angle it appears when you slightly bend the pages as you’re reading). It was a lovely book to read.

This is definitely a book I’m going to come back to every once in a while – there’s a lot of good advice from the interviewees, and a long list of books in the bibliography that I’m going to be adding to my TBR list about branding, marketing, customer relations, etc, etc.

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Death in the Castle review

Posted : 8 months, 3 weeks ago on 16 February 2009 02:46 (A review of Death in the Castle)

Sir Richard Sedgeley and Lady Mary have come upon hard times, and are no longer able to afford to keep up their castle. The castle has been in the Sedgeley family for five hundred years - and before that, belonged to the royal family for five hundred years. But a castle doesn’t make much income - few tourists come to this out-of-the-way castle in the middle of the English countryside, so Sir Richard has been looking at other opportunities. When a young American appears and offers to buy the castle in order to transform it into a museum, Sir Richard, Lady Mary and their two faithful servants starts questioning whether there is anything else they can do to keep the castle - including searching for lost treasure with the help of the castle ghosts.

Death in the Castle sits right on the edge of being almost a ghost story. It’s also almost a gothic novel. It’s certainly got the setting right - an old English castle, with dungeons, the frequent mention of ghosts, windows that don’t belong to any rooms… It’s just missing the atmosphere. But what it lack in atmosphere, it makes up in other areas of the novel.

Quite the cast of memorable characters in this book, I have to say. There’s Sir Richard and his wife, Lady Mary. Sir Richard is somewhat manic, and (as it turns out) rather crazy. Lady Mary is a sweet, almost timid woman, who turns a blind eye to her husband’s madness, and convinces herself (instead) that the castle is haunted. Then there’s Wells and his granddaughter Kate. Wells is the grumpy old butler, who has had to deal with (and hide) his master’s madness for many a year, while Kate is a bubbly young woman who loves Sir Richard and Lady Mary, but has no idea what’s really going on in the castle. And then there is John Blayne, the dashing young American who is trying to buy the castle, in order to transport it from the rural English countryside to … Connecticut.

The plot was a little unsurprising, but I wish it had gone a little bit more in depth in regards to Sir Richard’s madness. I would’ve loved to see more of the world from his perspective when he believed he was the king of England and had to defend his castle from the intruders (the Americans). It was such a short book, and quite the quick read, that I would’ve happily read more of what was going on in the lives of the characters.

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Marked: A House of Night Novel review

Posted : 8 months, 3 weeks ago on 16 February 2009 02:17 (A review of Marked: A House of Night Novel)

Zoey is sixteen when she is Marked as a fledgling vampyre. Unless she gets to the House of Night very soon, she could very well die - not all those who are Marked actually survive the transformation to complete vampyre.

Attempting to reach her Grandmother to help her get ready for the House of Night, Zoey has an accident. While unconscious, she meets the vampyre goddess Nyx, who reveals to her that Zoey has been chosen to be Nyx’s “eyes and ears in the world today, a world where good and evil are struggling to find balance.”

Zoey soon learns that having been Marked by Nyx as her own, she has been marked differently than other fledglings - and this is cause for great interest at the House of Night. Soon she has the attention of the popular (and nasty) leader of the Dark Daughters, Aphrodite, as well as the hot Erik Night. Her old friends having shunned her as soon as she was Marked, Zoey must lean on her new friends to help take down Aphrodite and put an end to all of the sketchy stuff the Dark Daughters have been dealing with.

As much as I disliked high school, if I had to go back and relive it, I would either want to attend the Gallagher Academy (from Ally Carter’s Gallagher Girls books) or the House of Night. The kids in House of Night get to take fun classes - fencing lessons? Really?? I want to take fencing lessons!

This book reminded me more of Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Avalon books than your run of the mill vampire novel. It focused so much on the whole matriarchal society idea - the high priestess, the fact that men aren’t necessarily on equal standing with women, etc. It was different than I expected. Not in a bad way at all - just different. Actually, other than the blood drinking thing, it was very much unlike your traditional vampire story.

The characters were fabulous. Zoey’s new friends were a little stereotypical, but a lot of fun. The other kids at school … well, Aphrodite seemed to personify the typical Queen Bee at any high school. Erik, however, I found disappointing. Something just doesn’t seem to add up about him - I kept thinking he had ulterior motives, but he didn’t. I don’t know what it is, but something about him just doesn’t add up. Maybe he was TOO good.

I am definitely going to have to read the next book in the series. Soon. It was so much fun, and I read the majority of it in one day. I really hope the rest of the books in the series are as enjoyable as this one.

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Runaways: Dead End Kids review

Posted : 8 months, 3 weeks ago on 16 February 2009 02:14 (A review of Runaways: Dead End Kids)

The original Runaways team consisted of the children of The Pride (a team of evil villains in the Marvel universe). When the kids realized that their parents were the bad guys, they did what kids to best - rebelled against their parents. Of course, in this instance, it had to mean becoming a team of superheroes. The kids went up against, and killed, their parents.

Dead End Kids covers issues 25 through 30 of the series - the selection that Joss Whedon had written. In this part of the series, in an attempt to escape Kingpin, the kids accidentally transport themselves to 1907. Unfortunately, the trip has completely depleted the power source of the device that got them there in the first place. In this new time, they meet other kids with powers (”Wonders” as they are called), a few new foes, and a couple of members of The Pride - before those two members are killed. (That’s the funny thing with time travel, and all.) And the question on the kids’ minds is, how will they be able to get back to their own time?

I do love Joss’ stuff. I really do. That man is brilliant, and I love the stories he tells. He could tell a story about a slug, and I’m sure I would still find it completely captivating. The illustrator, Michael Ryan, has illustrated series from both DC and Marvel, and his stuff is gorgeous. I have spent so much time the past few days just staring at the pictures in the book, and have no doubt that I will pull it out often in the future just to look at the prettiness!

I hadn’t read any of the Runaways issues before this one. I’m going to have to go back and find them, especially as I’ve heard that they may be adapting the series into a movie. Plus, they are a lot of fun. That said, I wasn’t lost as to what was going on. It explains a little bit at the beginning, but I had also done a bit of research on Wikipedia beforehand.

Overall, this was a fabulous volume and one I will revisit quite often.

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Rock Bottom: A Novel review

Posted : 8 months, 3 weeks ago on 16 February 2009 02:11 (A review of Rock Bottom: A Novel)

The Blood Orphans are the laughing stock of the music industry. Branded as racists, this group made an attempt at irony – to the point where it became offensive to most listeners. Now, on their last day of their last tour, each member of the band (and their manager) must come to grips with the fact that their plans at musical stardom have failed utterly.

There’s Bobby, the bass player with an extreme case of eczema; Darlo, the son of a porn king; Shane, Christian turned Buddhist, who preaches from stage every night; Adam, the only normal (and talented) one in the band; and Joey, their crackhead, alcoholic manager. Set in Amsterdam, over the span of one day, the book looks through the eyes of each person at their own lives, the lives of their bandmates and what is going to happen after their last show.

Typically, I am a character driven reader. If I hate the characters, I hate the book. It’s the reason why I hated both The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and Wuthering Heights. It’s also the reason I have never, though I have tried many times, been able to finish Vanity Fair. So the fact that I finished this book surprises me – I positively hated Every Single Character for the first 3/4’s of the book.

Starting off, the characters ranged from being all “I am the only normal one in this band, but I allow myself to be a doormat, but haha the rest of them are all so screwed up,” to “oh pity me, pity me, my life sucks so much,” to “it’s everyones fault but mine that this is all falling apart and I hate them all!” There were moments where I could empathize with them, but for the most part it was … highly annoying. Until the last few chapters where you can see how the events of the past day, and the fact that they will be performing their last show together ever, finally kick in.

For a good majority of the book, it felt like I was watching a train wreck happen. I honestly didn’t think this book would end well, but it managed to. And not in a cheesy sort of way - a way that was actually believable.

I actually (surprisingly?) really enjoyed Rock Bottom. It’s quite different from anything that I have read recently. And as much as I disliked the characters, I was completely drawn into their story - and that’s saying something for the book. If Shilling can make me actually want to read about characters I hate, then that man has got to have talent.

Summing it up: it is not a book I will reread, but it is a book that I will pass on to friends who may enjoy it.

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Jolted review

Posted : 8 months, 3 weeks ago on 16 February 2009 02:07 (A review of Jolted)

Some people worry about cancer being genetic. The Starkers worry about death by lightening being genetic. Going back generations, every Starker (except for one of Newton's very far removed grandfather, who died of cholera) has been struck to death by lightening.

Newton Starker and his great grandmother (a grumpy old lady who swears she only survived because of SPITE) are the last two surviving Starkers. And Newton is determined that lightening will not get him. And so, he enrolls at the Jerry Potts Academy of Higher Learning and Survival, where the students learn how to survive anything. Newton is convinced that this school will teach him everything he needs in order to learn how to survive the threat of death by lightening.

Arthur Slade is a brilliant author who, from what I've seen, can tackle different genres, subject matters, and age groups, and do so successfully. I read Megiddo's Shadow a few months ago, and one of the first things I said to a friend when I started reading Jolted was that this had better be pretty bloody good if I were going to enjoy it was much as Megiddo. And I did, oh did I ever. It was so different, but had the same quality of story telling. As much as Megiddo had me in tears, Jolted had me giggling out loud.

The characters, oh the characters! Brilliantly developed. Brilliantly hilarious. The setting – ah! A few mentions of the history of Moose Jaw – the Tunnels of Moose Jaw, the history of the surrounding area, etc. – gave more depth to the area the story was in. And the humour - somewhat snarky and yet I can see how it would appeal to both younger and older readers. Specifically enjoyed the classes that Newton had to take:

Mercantile Fitness and Survival - financial training and outdoor survival.
Biology and Survival of the Fittest - along with typical biology subjects, also covers how to avoid and become predators.
Literature and Communications - an English class that teaches how to make smoke signals?
Culinary Arts and Survival - teaching which plants & animals outdoors are edible.
Ethics of Survival - the "taboos and misconceptions that surround survival."

Dude, that's almost as great as the classes they take in The House of Night series and the Gallagher Girls books.

Awesome notes of squee:


Newton has a pet pig. Named Josephine. (After Napoleon's wife, I'm assuming.) She belonged to a man who harvested truffles before Newton acquired her.
Newton is obsessed (that word somehow doesn't seem strong enough) with truffles. Not the chocolate kind - the fungi kind.
Kilts! They wear kilts at Jerry Potts Academy. And there is a diagram included in the book.
Newton's favourite recipes are also included in the book. How random and fun is that?
This book takes place at a boarding school that is a castle just outside of Moose Jaw. In Saskatchewan. A gothic castle in Saskatchewan!


Done the squeeage for the time being. So yes, fabulously enjoyable and hilarious book.

Bottom Line: If you haven't read it yet, go buy this book right now. You will not be disappointed!

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