Monthly Archives: June 2008

wyrd sisters: the play — terry pratchett & stephen briggs

4 stars

On Dis­c­world live three witches, Granny, Nanny and Mar­grat. One day a baby is thrown into their laps and it hap­pens that it is the son of the dead king. The king, mur­dered by the Duke, who wants to be ruler. Well, the Duchess want to be ruler actu­ally: behind every good man, stands a bet­ter woman. Any­way, the witches decide to get the baby adopted by an actor and his wife, so he stays out of trou­ble until he is ready to rule as the new king. When every­thing goes awry with the Duke (the idea to burn down the whole for­est amongst other things), the witches decide to speed up time about fif­teen years. But is that the right decision?

this is a pre­view of wyrd sis­ters: the play — terry pratch­ett & stephen briggs. read the full post (195 words & 1 image, esti­mated 47 secs read­ing time)
June 20, 2008 – 21:06 | By eb | Posted in fantasy, plays, recommendations | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

carry on, jeeves — p.g. wodehouse

4 stars

Jeeves is the gentleman’s gen­tle­man of Bertie Wooster and a genius in cre­at­ing good ideas in trou­ble­some sit­u­a­tions. Not a bad qual­ity for a but­ler with an employer called Wooster, because when Wooster isn’t in trou­ble a friend of his is and Wooster always wants to help his friends, no mat­ter how bad the situation.

this is a pre­view of carry on, jeeves — p.g. wode­house. read the full post (195 words & 1 image, esti­mated 47 secs read­ing time)
June 20, 2008 – 20:53 | By eb | Posted in classics, humor, short stories | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

the haunting of hill house — shirley jackson

3 stars

Dr. Mon­tague is an occult scholar and he wants some solid evi­dence about the phe­nom­e­non called haunt­ing. He sets his eyes on Hill House, a big man­sion up in the hills, to con­duct his study. The house is said to be haunted and any­body who tried liv­ing there, moved out after only three or four days (and nights). Dr. Mon­tague is set on explain­ing. To do so he invites three oth­ers to live with him in Hill House, all some­what expe­ri­enced in the phe­nom­e­non. First there is Theodora, his light­hearted assis­tant, always in for a good scar­ing and laugh. Then there is Luke, the heir to be of the place. He has to be there, because of his aunt, who didn’t want any­one in the place with­out some fam­ily. And last but not least, there is Eleanor, an emo­tion­ally unsta­ble girl, no stranger to the ‘unknown’. How long will they stand the haunt­ing of Hill House?

this is a pre­view of the haunt­ing of hill house — shirley jack­son. read the full post (229 words & 1 image, esti­mated 55 secs read­ing time)
June 12, 2008 – 11:58 | By eb | Posted in classics, horror | Tagged , , | Comments (0)