July reads
I've flopped down into the fiction section of my reading list... aaahhhh... It's pretty hot and humid here so it's a relief to come in and flop down on the couch and pick up a book. The hard part is choosing which one! Here are some that I've been reading this week. The first one was some wacky fantasy fiction. It's called Warren the 13th and the All-Seeing Eye by Tania Del Rio and designed by Will Staehle. It has kind of an old fashioned, Roald Dahl-ish feel to it (which you notice right away if you read the table of contents, where every single chapter starts with "In which...", like chapter 1 "In Which a Mysterious Guest Arrives"). The main character is Warren the 13th. He comes from a long line of Warrens who are the caretakers and operators of the Warren Hotel. Sadly, the hotel has fallen on hard times because Warren's father (the 12th) died years before, leaving the hotel to his brother, Rupert, and his son, Warren (13th). Ru...