Briefly Noted
Hey, if the New Yorker can get away with it, then so can I.
I'm a fan of Ellen Kushner's Riverside fantasy novels. This has a rather experimental provenance: a company called Serial Box is publishing stories on an app; their model is modern literate TV series such as The Wire or Game of Thrones. The first 'season' also was printed as a book, which was at my library, but there are three more 'seasons' of Tremontaine available on their app.
I think I'd have preferred a new novel just by Kushner, but there wasn't one, and this was definitely fun.
Ellen Kushner is insufficiently prolific as far as I'm concerned.
Found Audio is by a new-to-me small press called Two Dollar Radio based in Columbus, OH. This is the story of a journalist who freelances for extreme adventure/travel magazines. This unnamed journalist has three encounters in extreme situations. He can't document them upon his return to civilization and leave him questioning his own sanity. Religious experiences?
The stories are embedded in a frame tale that indicates that everybody who's heard these stories has died or disappeared. Well, I'm not. Yet. Or am I?
Quite well done, I thought. A blurb cites Borges and Jeff VanderMeer. Good cites, but I'd mention Philip Dick's novels of gnostic revelation, Ubik or Valis.
Where I Am
We were off to see a movie at TIFF Lightbox theatre the other day when it was sunny. It's not today, alas. But here's Toronto on a nice (though cold) late afternoon.
I'd like to visit Toronto some day, but in a warmer climate, I think. Enjoy your books! My Sunday Salon post
ReplyDeleteMarch isn't the time of year to come!
DeleteI visited Toronto more than ten years ago when the reading association conference was held there, and I found Toronto to be an amazing city.
ReplyDeleteI'm fascinated with the new idea of publishing stories. I want to find out more about that.
It is an interesting idea, but I never read things on my tablet--I'm too distractable on the tablet. (I have a very old, does nothing else eReader that is OK.)
DeleteI visited Toronto once, but it was years ago. I'd like to go again one day.
ReplyDeleteFound Audio sounds interesting. So many books are grabbing my attention today.
I know. The problem with Sunday Salon posts...
DeleteThe Riverside series sounds tempting. Over on goodreads it seems as if either readers LOVE it or hate it because there are no dragons...
ReplyDeleteMy library only has the second book in the series available so I think I might let the used book gods guide me. It worked with Robin Hobb!
You can read them out of order with no problem, I'd say. But I rely on those used book serendipity gods a lot myself...
DeleteBeautiful picture! And how interesting, how many of the commenters have been only once to Toronto.
ReplyDeleteHa! Maybe Toronto wasn't putting its best foot forward? Maybe we need a little spit and polish?
Delete