Saturday, December 13, 2014

Unusual Books for Christmas


  • The Devil's In The Cows by Sippican Cottage. Marvelously written short stories. A keeper.
  • Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. A fantasy novel which shows you what's really beneath London.
  • The Ghostway by Tony Hillerman. Another fine adventure of Navajo tribal police officer Jim Chee.
  • Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa. Simply brilliant. I'll say nothing further lest I give it away.
  • Souless by Gail Carriger. Vampires and werewolves in Victorian London and some of them know the Queen. Quite entertaining and humorous.
  • Flashman and the Redskins by George MacDonald Fraser. Scoundrel Harry Flashman in another adventure. As funny as it is politically incorrect.
  • Memoir From Antproof Case by Mark Helprin. The closest that prose gets to poetry.

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