It’s like Charles de Lint meets Ishmael. I love it Howard is a private investigator in Chicago. He’s practical, pragmatic, Jewish, so normal it’s painful. Some rich Jewish guy pays him a bunch of money to investigate a question he has: after Yahweh saved the Jews, they adopted Pagan gods and worshiped them for hundreds… Continue reading Book Review: The Holy by Daniel Quinn
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Book Review: The Story of B, by Daniel Quinn
(First, read Ishmael and My Ishmael.) This book is the best of the trilogy, but I think it’s better to read the other two first (even though this one is supposed to be in the middle). Jared is a Laurentian priest. He has a small life where everything makes sense, you know? He’s average in… Continue reading Book Review: The Story of B, by Daniel Quinn
Book Review: My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
My Ishmael is even better than Ishmael. The narrator is a twelve year old girl. She’s a stereotype, really: the only latchkey child of a single alcoholic workaholic mother. Daniel Quinn doesn’t bother to introduce her further, except to throw in a couple more cliches. I was pretty pissed about this, because his male characters… Continue reading Book Review: My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Book Review: Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
I read this book and fell so in love with Daniel Quinn. I don’t know how I managed to go through life for so long without having read it, except that everyone always talks about it as something to read before Derrick Jensen, and I thought, why read what leads up to what I’ve already… Continue reading Book Review: Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
The Internet's Broken
Seriously. I did all this work – well, actually, the mysterious admin did a LOT of work and figured out the problem. I just changed the theme and tried to bring back the sidebars. But now the sidebars are broken again and I don’t understand why. So I’m going to walk in the rain with… Continue reading The Internet's Broken