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Matthew Royal

masyukun@books.theunseen.city

Joined 1 year, 4 months ago

Reading, Programming, Cooking, Renaissance Music

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The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern (A Jim Qwilleran Feline Whodunnit) (Paperback, 1995, Headline Book Publishing) 3 stars

Review of 'The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern (A Jim Qwilleran Feline Whodunnit)' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Enjoyable, and beginning to set the tone of the rest of the series. It's remarkable how much better the first book in the series is, like it was not written to formula like all the rest. Still, a perfectly enjoyable cozy mystery for housework and shopping.

The sandman (1989, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) 4 stars

One night, instead of going to sleep, Jay stays awake to see if the sandman …

Review of 'The sandman' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I'm happy to finish this original series of Sandman comics right before the television series starts tomorrow on Netflix. It's remarkable timing, given I didn't read the comics on a schedule.

"Life is no play. We meet people once, and never see them again. There is no shape to events, no point at which we turn to the audience for their praise. No time at which we step behind the stage, to see the actors changing their wigs, and painting their faces, and muttering their lines."

Neil Gaiman has a pattern to what he writes. He rides a line of greatness and self-confidence/cringe that I'm afraid I'll get sick of, but never do -- even if someday I figure out how the magic works enough to do it myself, I'll still come back and re-read, re-watch, and re-feel what he's made.