Literary Liaisons, On the Shelf

On the Shelf- The Colour of Magic

Have you ever wondered what it would look like if Mel Brooks had decided to sit down and write a fantasy novel? Me too. And I’ve decided that the result would read a lot like Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series. And if that’s not something you’d be interested in I question your life choices. Full confession I’ve read Colour of Magic more than a few times and while it is not my favorite entry of the twenty plus novels set in Discworld it is up there. It’s also the first in the series and so as a holiday gift to you…

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Literary Liaisons, On the Shelf

On the Shelf- Devil in the White City

Welcome to the first installment of On the Shelf where I review books that have been out for a while but that you may be interested in going back and picking up (which really for me defines all books). I noted in my first instalment of In Stores Now that I had intended to write about Erik Larson’s Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America before realizing it was almost twelve years old. Well for On the Shelf a dozen years is nothing to stand in the way of a good (or…

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