| Title: | Available Light |
| Author: | Warren Ellis |
| Genre: | Short Stories/Fiction |
| Synopsis: | Little snapshots of possible histories, pasts and lives accompanied by grainy photographs. |
| Verdict: | Powerful for their size like all Ellis short stories. Dark but real and touching. |
| Pages: | 63 |
| Read: | June 2010 |
30 June 2010
#70. Availabe Light by Warren Ellis
#69. The Geographer's Library
| Title: | The Geographer’s Library |
| Author: | Jon Fasman |
| Genre: | Fiction/Thriller/Historical Fiction |
| Synopsis: | A small-town journalist is drawn into a conspiracy as he investigates the death of a mysterious professor. |
| Verdict: | A lot of potential but the end explanation is outlandish and not worth the wait. |
| Pages: | 547 |
| Read: | June 2010 |
#68. The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
| Title: | The Beauty Myth |
| Author: | Naomi Wolf |
| Genre: | Non-Fiction |
| Synopsis: | An analysis of how advertising and society shaped to obsess women with beauty. |
| Verdict: | Scary but an essential comparison to ‘The Feminine Mystique’. Sadly relevant and accurate 30 years on. |
| Pages: | 291 |
| Read: | June – July 2010 |
#67. Come In Alone by Warren Ellis
| Title: | Come In Alone |
| Author: | Warren Ellis |
| Genre: | Serial/Collected Articles/Non-Fiction |
| Synopsis: | Warren Ellis’ thoughts on the comics industry (circa 2000), what’s wrong with it, what can be done to fix it, how it can improve. |
| Verdict: | Angry, in-depth, technical but not inaccessible. Made a lot of sense and seems just as relevant 10 years on. |
| Pages: | 245 |
| Read: | June 2010 |
#66. Atomic Sushi by Simon May
| Title: | Atomic Sushi |
| Author: | Simon May |
| Genre: | Non-Fiction/Travel |
| Synopsis: | The experiences of an English Philosophy professor living and working in Japan. |
| Verdict: | Very interesting but it made me a bit nervous to visit (especially the hospitals). |
| Pages: | 217 |
| Read: | June 2010 |
30 May 2010
#65. The Magicians by Lev Grossman
| Title: | The Magicians |
| Author: | Lev Grossman |
| Genre: | Fiction/Fantasy |
| Synopsis: | A highly intelligent young man is accepted into a magical college and struggles to reconcile his new reality with the old. |
| Verdict: | Moves quickly, leaves you off-balance and although it’s well-written it feels incomplete and under-realised. |
| Pages: | 402 |
| Read: | May 2010 |
#64. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
| Title: | I Am Legend |
| Author: | Richard Matheson |
| Genre: | Horror/Science Fiction/Post Apocalyptic |
| Synopsis: | The last survivor of a disaster that turned everyone else into sub-human monsters fights for survival and sanity. |
| Verdict: | Dark, very subtle and to the point. The innovation against despair is very powerful. So very different from the recent film, more poignant. |
| Pages: | 161 |
| Read: | May 2010 |
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