Words From Vaish

The Queen Of Attolia Megan Whalen Turner Greenwillow Books 2017                                                                                            359 Pages “I wonder why it is so dull, when so much of it must be untrue.” -           -   Catherine Morland on the subject of history,            in Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen History, for far too many long-suffering students, is a boringly stupefying recitation of dates and dynasties – with all the r...

[FICTION] The Everything Box Richard Kadrey Harper Voyager  369 Pages A religious/mystical/historical artifact desperately desired by disparate groups of people willing to stop at nothing to acquire it. This has been the plot engine behind everything from  The Maltese Falcon  to  Raiders Of The Lost Ark . Now, writer/photographer Richard Kadrey tries his hand at something also done before in  Good Omens  by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Not to mention the humorous apocalypses of Douglas Adams and Christopher Moore... A Los Angeles cat burglar named Charlie “Coop” Cooper - a specialist in purloining magical objects - steals and delivers a small box to the mysterious client who engaged his services. Coop doesn’t know that his latest job could be the end of him - and the world as well.  What follows is madcap mayhem of confusion and double-cross straight out of the pages of Elmore Leonard and Thomas Perry. For a secret US gov...