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Percy discovers what very well may be a floating base of operations for Kronos’s monster army, and Tyson proves to be part myna bird. Also: other stuff! It’s part 9 of Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters…
No one still really knows WHAT is in that ship.
That will change.
My writing on A Dragon at the Gate, the third and final book in The New Aeneid Cycle cyberpunk series, proceeds apace.
Wait, am I using that word correctly? *looks up “apace”* Hmm. “With speed?” “Quickly?” Let me start this over:
My writing on A Dragon at the Gate, the third and final book in The New Aeneid Cycle cyberpunk series, proceeds semi-apace! [Read more…]
…I loved it. It was much better than Cats. I’m going to read it again, and again…
So two little things I predicted came true, and one big thing I predicted was more or less wrong. I’m going to say they balance out in this, the eighth part of Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters…
Another fine chapter you’ve gotten us into, Riordan!
Percy cleans with fire, Hermes dashes in, and Tantalus becomes an even bigger prat—all this and more on the seventh part of Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters…
Though lacking in much actual action, this chapter shoves us onto the flight deck, fuels up the jet, and clears us for launch. (Aren’t metaphors fun?) Midway through I found myself a little down on things, but then I realized I was resisting some of Riordan’s Greek mythology updates only because they contradicted with my own in Zeus Is Dead. [Read more…]
In which Michael becomes obsessed with Percy’s term for some Stymphalian birds…
Grover’s in a bad way, but those are the dangers of using Bugs Bunny’s “dress in drag to fool the hunter” trick. Or, to put it another way, it’s time for the sixth part of Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters…
Best. Chapter title. EVER. [Read more…]
“Zeus is Dead is a hilarious tale that takes all of Greek mythology’s best bits…and plays it up wonderfully.”
—Jonathan Charles Bruce, author and man with absolutely excellent taste in books
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