I love the pixie, I love the snap of the dialogue, and I love the mixture of hardboiled classic detective and fairie that is the real shifting, dangerous place of legends. A most enjoyable read—I can’t wait for the next installment of Burgundy’s adventures!
I also picked Evangeline Denmark’s novel, Curio.
I have never met Evangeline, but I’ve enjoyed her mother, Donita K. Paul’s Dragonkeeper novels, and I’ve heard my mom talk about visiting her. There were some things I quite liked about Curio—the idea or Tocks and Porcies and the steam punk flair to the story. I felt like a few things could have been explained a bit better, and things got a little ‘warm’ for a YA novl, but overall it was a good read.
For music, I decided to take the plunge and get a compilation of David Bowie’s music as I was sorry to hear of his passing early this month. I chose this one-
I have to say, I have really enjoyed it. While some of Bowie’s lyrics are a bit out there (and this is a pretty ‘sanitary’ album), he had an amazing voice, he created some neat sounds, and some really catchy tunes and rhythms. I particularly like “Golden Years” (used in A Knight’s tale), “Ziggy Stardust,” and “Rebel Rebel” (not for the words though!). Of course, whenever I think of Bowie, I also think of Labyrinth. Who could forget “Dance Magic Dance,” and “Underground?” I’ll have to see about getting my hands on a soundtrack… Guardians of the Galexy has also insured that I will think of “Moonage Daydream” when I think of Bowie. If you haven’t seen it, you should also totally look up the video on Youtube of Bowie and Bing Cosby singing “The Little Drummer Boy.” Adorable and awesome; how did I just learn about this two months ago?
Parting shot: Speaking of Ziggy Stardust, check out this outfit! Not everyone could pull that off…or would even try!
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