“Education teaches us how to think, intelligence how to question, and our morality what to do with what we know. Be wary then of the educated, intelligent, and amoral person, for they will know only that they can do a thing, not whether they should.” A book’s worth is usually gauged by its ending. A…
“Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.” Very rarely does a book strike such a differing chord with me. No, I’m not waffling on about the New Weird genre; I’m saying that, honestly, I’m divided on this book. It’s going to take a lot of explanation. Bear with me.…
“The gift of intellect is not knowing what questions to ask, rather questioning what you are taught.” It has taken me a while, but I’ve come to the conclusion that The Garden of Stones was my most underrated novel of 2013. Don’t worry, though; Mark T Barnes’s second rings true. Not only is it a…
“’You see us wrong, who see with your eyes, and hear nothing true, though straining your ears! What thieves of wonder are these poor senses…’” How long has it been? Five years? Six years? Unlike a large majority of the fantasy sphere, I only had to wait a year for Scott Lynch’s third installment. That…
Acerbic Writing 