Lucas Blogs About Books

Huh, some idiot covered part of the author's name. All right, full disclosure time. I didn't finish reading this one. Whoa! Seriously, you're going to review a book that you didn't finish reading? Yeah, I mean, it's not like anyone's paying me to do this. Also, I thought maybe we could talk about whether you have an obligation to finish a book you're not enjoying. I'll allow it, but make sure you go somewhere with this. Thanks, Hypothetical Reader. You're the best. So, let's put in a little backstory. I enjoyed Mira Grant's Newsflesh trilogy from a few years ago ( Feed, Deadline, and Blackout ). The books are fun and feature engaging narrators in Georgia and Shaun Mason, the adoptive siblings who become embedded bloggers on a presidential campaign in a world in which the zombie apocalypse has become the status quo and ultimately end up uncovering a massive conspiracy. They've got a kind of late 90's Josh Whedon-y vibe t...

Finally, a prequel to American Gods ! So, what's this book's deal? Hold up, Hypothetical Reader, are you really asking me what a book called Norse Mythology  is about? Well, I mean, it could be anything, it could be an academic treatise on the subject, it could be a misprint in a collection of stories about legendary equines, it could be. . . Okay, I get it. Norse Mythology  is a collection of short stories about the Norse gods, which all happen to be in sequential order, but don't necessarily coalesce into a single story. Gaiman sources the stories back to the  Prose  and  Poetic Eddas , and even talks about the ways he tweaked the stories to maintain an internal continuity. What can I say? It's pretty much exactly what you'd expect from a book with the words: "Neil Gaiman" and "Norse Mythology" on the cover. Gaiman presents these stories of gods, elves, dwarfs, giants, and ogres in plain, clear prose that leaves intact the darkness ...

F/NAL G/RLS by R/LEY SAGER? Before we go any further, I assume that you know what the "final girl" trope is in horror film. If not, Google is your friend. So, what's this book's deal? I'm glad you asked, Hypothetical Reader. It's the story of Quincy Carpenter, a baking blogger (yes, this is her real job, and yes, the book does explain how she manages to financially support herself (hint: it doesn't involve the blog)) in Manhattan who, ten years earlier, was the lone survivor of the Pine Cottage Murders (think any slasher movie with an escaped mental patient). Luckily (kinda) for Quincy, she has no memory of what happened between midnight and one am on the night in question. Afterwards, the media dub her a "Final Girl." Sharing this dubious honor are Lisa Milner, who years earlier survived a similar slaughter at her sorority house, and Samantha Boyd, who was working at the Nightlight Inn when it was attacked by the Sack Man. None of...

Welcome to Lucas Blogs About Books, the blog whose title explains its premise. Right now I'm on an indefinite hiatus. Feel free to read any of my old posts. There may be a few stray posts here and there if there's a book or subject I feel passionately enough to blog about. But for now I'll just say thanks to any real or hypothetical readers who might have enjoyed this blog in the past three years. Current update schedule: On hiatus:  Lucas Blogs About X / Load-Bearing Elements / Hey, Hypothetical Reader! / Miscellany / Oops! / Simplified Series / Oddaptations / Check Yer Blindspots! / Books that Made Me Cry Completed Reading Projects:  A Year of Unfortunate Events  (Lucas Blogged About A Series of Unfortunate Events)/ Whan That Month  (Lucas Blogged About the Canterbury Tales)