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July 12, 2026

The Last Days of New Paris (Review)

his was the first Audible book I’d listened to after a friend cut through my quibbling about a coming car trip and bought me a Fire. Anyway, I had to test it out so I pulled down a couple of titles that looked interesting, including this one from a favorite author, China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris. And I pretty much listened to the first section about a dozen times, trying this setting and realizing that listening in a car would be impractical (road noise) unless I came up with a solution. So fix it I did, and since I […]

July 19, 2026

Red Side Story (Review)

f you look into my entire Library of Alexandria, you’ll find a review for Shades of Grey, a curious book by Jasper Fforde. Red Side Story is the second (and possibly final) book of the series set up by the author, where a strange, tightly-controlled society with it’s hierarchy based on archaic rules and your ability to see one certain color) comes totally unglued. We have Edward and Jane, my favorite ruf-love couple, trying to make things work around the rule-checking yellows and the governing purples, all supported by the various other hues, with everyone lording over the greys (basically, the unwashed, […]