Free Book

Neil Gaiman's fantastic novel Neverwhere is now available online for FREE for this entire month.

I highly recommend it. It's a modern Alice in Wonderland story.

It's about a guy named Richard who meets an injured girl named Door who is running from some very nasty men who are trying to kill her. Richard ends up following Door to London Below, the secret parts of London that the normal people from London Above never see or notice.

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The other day, I finished reading The Only Life That Mattered: The Short and Merry Lives of Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and Calico Jack Rackam.

It was hard to read at first. I didn't want to get into the story because I knew the ending (it's historical fiction) and it does not end well.

I really disliked Anne Bonny. She was spoiled and impulsive. Calico Jack was marginally better, but his drunken state towards the end was pathetic.

The story didn't really pick up anyway until they introduced Mary Read. I adored her despite my best efforts not to. She was brave and clever and wonderful. Of course, her story ends up being the saddest. It makes me so angry that Mary suffers while Anne walks off, free of burden, yet again. Grrr.

I don't think the book would be enjoyable for someone who didn't really like pirates though. There was a lot of daily life stuff to read through.

Now I'm finally starting to read Neil Gaiman's Fragile Things. Still on the intro for that one though. (Always read the intro.)