Joseph Baneth Allen's Blog, page 61
June 19, 2023
The List of Adrian Messenger
Just finished watching "The List of Adrian Messenger" released by Universal back in 1969.
Based on the original novel by Phillip MacDonald that was released in 1959, "The List of Adrian Messenger" is a suspenseful Hitchcockian thriller that was filmed in glorious black and white - which makes it an interesting choice for the time period and heightens the tension of the movie's highly atmospheric moodiness.
A writer named Adrian Messenger (John Merivale) believes a series of apparently unrelated "accidental" deaths are actually linked murders. He asks his friend Anthony Gethryn (George C. Scott), recently retired from MI5, to help clear up the mystery. However, Messenger's plane is bombed while he is en route to collect evidence to confirm his suspicions and, with his dying breath, he tries to tell a fellow passenger the key to the mystery.
The passenger survives and turns out to be Raoul Le Borg (Jacques Roux), Gethryn's old World War II counterpart in the French Resistance. They join forces to investigate Messenger's list of names, and decode Messenger's final cryptic words. They establish that all on the list were together in a prisoner of war camp in Burma, where a Canadian sergeant, George Brougham, betrayed his fellow prisoners, foiling their escape attempt. Each has a reason to kill Brougham. It evolves that Brougham is their killer, but why? They deduce that he is about to come into prominence and cannot risk being recognized. Gethryn and Le Borg establish that he stands in line to an inheritance of the Bruttenholm family, landed gentry who are friends of Gethryn and the late Messenger, and who avidly engage in fox hunting.
Having disposed of all possible witnesses to his wartime treachery, Brougham (Kirk Douglas) appears at a Bruttenholm estate fox hunt and introduces himself as a member of the family (he has previously been seen only in disguise). It then becomes clear to the visiting Gethryn and Le Borg that Brougham's next victim is to be the young heir, Derek. In an attempt to divert Brougham, Gethryn makes known his investigation of Messenger’s list, calculating to set himself up as the next victim.
One of the most intriguing aspects of this movie is the use of makeup and masks to conceal the identity of several of the actors a la Mission Impossible style.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://www.amazon.com/List-Adrian-Me...
Based on the original novel by Phillip MacDonald that was released in 1959, "The List of Adrian Messenger" is a suspenseful Hitchcockian thriller that was filmed in glorious black and white - which makes it an interesting choice for the time period and heightens the tension of the movie's highly atmospheric moodiness.
A writer named Adrian Messenger (John Merivale) believes a series of apparently unrelated "accidental" deaths are actually linked murders. He asks his friend Anthony Gethryn (George C. Scott), recently retired from MI5, to help clear up the mystery. However, Messenger's plane is bombed while he is en route to collect evidence to confirm his suspicions and, with his dying breath, he tries to tell a fellow passenger the key to the mystery.
The passenger survives and turns out to be Raoul Le Borg (Jacques Roux), Gethryn's old World War II counterpart in the French Resistance. They join forces to investigate Messenger's list of names, and decode Messenger's final cryptic words. They establish that all on the list were together in a prisoner of war camp in Burma, where a Canadian sergeant, George Brougham, betrayed his fellow prisoners, foiling their escape attempt. Each has a reason to kill Brougham. It evolves that Brougham is their killer, but why? They deduce that he is about to come into prominence and cannot risk being recognized. Gethryn and Le Borg establish that he stands in line to an inheritance of the Bruttenholm family, landed gentry who are friends of Gethryn and the late Messenger, and who avidly engage in fox hunting.
Having disposed of all possible witnesses to his wartime treachery, Brougham (Kirk Douglas) appears at a Bruttenholm estate fox hunt and introduces himself as a member of the family (he has previously been seen only in disguise). It then becomes clear to the visiting Gethryn and Le Borg that Brougham's next victim is to be the young heir, Derek. In an attempt to divert Brougham, Gethryn makes known his investigation of Messenger’s list, calculating to set himself up as the next victim.
One of the most intriguing aspects of this movie is the use of makeup and masks to conceal the identity of several of the actors a la Mission Impossible style.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://www.amazon.com/List-Adrian-Me...
June 17, 2023
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Two Watsons and Other Mysteries
Just finished listening to "The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Two Watsons and Other Mysteries" from Jim French Productions, released by Radio Spirits.
Now as frequent readers of my reviews here on Facebook, Goodreads, and other social media sites know, I always am forthcoming whenever I have a connection with a book, movie, music CD, and/or audio drama CD. Although I am friends with Lawrence Albert, who plays Dr. Watson, here on Facebook, I never had the pleasure of meeting him in person though we have exchanged a few messages back and forth. Albert portrays Dr. Watson with a unique and grounded performance that shows why Holmes and Watson are good steadfast friends.
And as frequent readers of my reviews know, I have always criticized Radio Spirits for not helping to preserve the history of Jim French Productions. Yes, I know that there is a wealth of information available online, but a majority of the actors are still with us and can provide such unique insights on how the Golden Age of Radio provided influence and insight into the audio dramas produced by Jim French Productions and provide information on what is was like to be before a live studio audience. Something you should keep in mind Radio Spirits.
With the exception of "The Lady Sannox Investigation" where Holmes and Watson do not stand in the way of pending murder, these are original adventures of Sherlock Holmes with permission granted by the Doyle Estate.
My favorite episodes in this collection are: "The Case Of The Remarkable Worm," "The Inspector of Graves," "The Dragon of Lea Lane," "The Gastein Symphony," "The Adventure of the Venomous Lizard" - which brings together Holmes with Professor Challenger," and "The Two Watsons" - in which Mrs. Watson invites herself to the investigation.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://store.radiospirits.com/furthe...
Now as frequent readers of my reviews here on Facebook, Goodreads, and other social media sites know, I always am forthcoming whenever I have a connection with a book, movie, music CD, and/or audio drama CD. Although I am friends with Lawrence Albert, who plays Dr. Watson, here on Facebook, I never had the pleasure of meeting him in person though we have exchanged a few messages back and forth. Albert portrays Dr. Watson with a unique and grounded performance that shows why Holmes and Watson are good steadfast friends.
And as frequent readers of my reviews know, I have always criticized Radio Spirits for not helping to preserve the history of Jim French Productions. Yes, I know that there is a wealth of information available online, but a majority of the actors are still with us and can provide such unique insights on how the Golden Age of Radio provided influence and insight into the audio dramas produced by Jim French Productions and provide information on what is was like to be before a live studio audience. Something you should keep in mind Radio Spirits.
With the exception of "The Lady Sannox Investigation" where Holmes and Watson do not stand in the way of pending murder, these are original adventures of Sherlock Holmes with permission granted by the Doyle Estate.
My favorite episodes in this collection are: "The Case Of The Remarkable Worm," "The Inspector of Graves," "The Dragon of Lea Lane," "The Gastein Symphony," "The Adventure of the Venomous Lizard" - which brings together Holmes with Professor Challenger," and "The Two Watsons" - in which Mrs. Watson invites herself to the investigation.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://store.radiospirits.com/furthe...
Alernate Routes
Just finished reading "Alernate Routes" by Time Powers, published by Baen Books.
The first novel of Power's series of fugitives Sebastian Vickery and Ingrid Castine who find themselves plunged into the supernatural secrets of Los Angeles and on the run from a government agency that wants them dead for knowing about the other side.
Alternate Routes STARTS as a "typical" Powers novel - carefully articulated secret world of ghosts and people on the margins of society in this case, on the margins of the freeways, which act as a sort of magnetic field for ghosts. But halfway through it goes off the deep end into a surrealist-metaphysical landscape that combines Greek mythology and oddly simple everyday math.
A Classic Tim Powers Novel!
Strongly Recommended!
Five Stars!
https://www.amazon.com/Alternate-Rout...
The first novel of Power's series of fugitives Sebastian Vickery and Ingrid Castine who find themselves plunged into the supernatural secrets of Los Angeles and on the run from a government agency that wants them dead for knowing about the other side.
Alternate Routes STARTS as a "typical" Powers novel - carefully articulated secret world of ghosts and people on the margins of society in this case, on the margins of the freeways, which act as a sort of magnetic field for ghosts. But halfway through it goes off the deep end into a surrealist-metaphysical landscape that combines Greek mythology and oddly simple everyday math.
A Classic Tim Powers Novel!
Strongly Recommended!
Five Stars!
https://www.amazon.com/Alternate-Rout...
"The Monster's Bones - The Discovery Of T. Rex And How It Shook Our World
Just finished "The Monster's Bones - The Discovery Of T. Rex And How It Shook Our World" by David K. Randall, published by Norton Books.
Randall has written a fascinating history of the flawed men who advanced humanity's knowledge of dinosaurs by providing an unflinching look at how the Bone Wars impacted the emerging science of paleontology and how a Kansas farm boy by the name of Barnum Brown was able to break the stereotypical thinking of the age a little over a century ago where dinosaurs were thought to be lumbering herbivores who had no natural predators - until the discovery of the first T-Rex fossils shook up the world - just another example of why you shouldn't have science by consensus.
Highly Recommended Science History!
Ten Stars!
https://www.amazon.com/Monsters-Bones...
Randall has written a fascinating history of the flawed men who advanced humanity's knowledge of dinosaurs by providing an unflinching look at how the Bone Wars impacted the emerging science of paleontology and how a Kansas farm boy by the name of Barnum Brown was able to break the stereotypical thinking of the age a little over a century ago where dinosaurs were thought to be lumbering herbivores who had no natural predators - until the discovery of the first T-Rex fossils shook up the world - just another example of why you shouldn't have science by consensus.
Highly Recommended Science History!
Ten Stars!
https://www.amazon.com/Monsters-Bones...
The Lone Ranger - Vendetta
Just finished reading "The Lone Ranger - Vendetta" by Howard Hopkins, released by Moonstone Books.
The Lone Ranger went to great lengths to keep his identity hidden even before discovering that his nephew Dan was actually alive and well and had been taken in by an elderly woman who raised him as her own grandson. And although The Lone Ranger thought he and Tonto had done a pretty good job of concealing the identity of the masked rider of the plains, both he and Tonto soon come across the horrific discovery that somebody knows and is killing people who have a connection with The Lone Ranger and have targeted Dan in their cross-hairs.
The only clues Tonto and The Lone Ranger have is a copper bullet that is left behind at the scenes of unspeakable carnage and the name of Blood Creek Gang - Butch Cavendish's Gang - but that is an impossibility because all the gang members faced justice and death by hanging for their many crimes.
Yet The Lone Ranger and Tonto forgot one important thing when they brought the Blood Creek Gang to justice all those years ago - ghosts often leave family members behind.
A very intense and well written look at the unexpected consequences of a masked hero - when someone puts the pieces together for revenge and doesn't care how many bodies are left in the wake of destroying the one hero who took away their twisted, sick happiness and how far a hero is willing to go to protect the innocent and his loved ones while remaining true to himself.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://www.amazon.com/Lone-Ranger-Ve...
The Lone Ranger went to great lengths to keep his identity hidden even before discovering that his nephew Dan was actually alive and well and had been taken in by an elderly woman who raised him as her own grandson. And although The Lone Ranger thought he and Tonto had done a pretty good job of concealing the identity of the masked rider of the plains, both he and Tonto soon come across the horrific discovery that somebody knows and is killing people who have a connection with The Lone Ranger and have targeted Dan in their cross-hairs.
The only clues Tonto and The Lone Ranger have is a copper bullet that is left behind at the scenes of unspeakable carnage and the name of Blood Creek Gang - Butch Cavendish's Gang - but that is an impossibility because all the gang members faced justice and death by hanging for their many crimes.
Yet The Lone Ranger and Tonto forgot one important thing when they brought the Blood Creek Gang to justice all those years ago - ghosts often leave family members behind.
A very intense and well written look at the unexpected consequences of a masked hero - when someone puts the pieces together for revenge and doesn't care how many bodies are left in the wake of destroying the one hero who took away their twisted, sick happiness and how far a hero is willing to go to protect the innocent and his loved ones while remaining true to himself.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://www.amazon.com/Lone-Ranger-Ve...
June 12, 2023
First Contact - Scientific Breakthroughs In the Hunt For Life Beyond Earth
Just finished reading "First Contact - Scientific Breakthroughs In the Hunt For Life Beyond Earth" by Marc Kaufman, published by Simon Schuster in 2011.
Now like most avid readers I have quite the collection of unread books - it isn't an exaggeration on my part when I say that I think I have about a thousand or more unread books tucked away in one corner of my library and stored in my sister's unused bedroom - thanks Selma Franz!
One of the problem with reading a science book that is over ten years old is that some of the science being reported on is a bit outdated, still Kaufman's observations about the problem of determining what exactly life is and how it may be detected on Mars, Europa, and other worlds and moons in the Solar System.
One of this problems about detecting life beyond Earth is the long debated ambiguity of the Viking lander's results when it ran a suite of tests to look for life in Martian soil. Kaufman makes a fascinating case for the argument that it actually did find life.
Gil Levin, the scientist who designed an experiment that scooped up Martian soil, squirted nutrients into it that had been labeled with radioactive carbon-14, and waited to see if gases were emitted that carried that radioactive label.
If labeled gases were emitted, it would suggest that some microbe had eaten the nutrient and emitted a waste product. And in fact, that was exactly what was detected: a surge of radioactive carbon dioxide. As a control, the soil was then baked to high temperatures in an effort to kill off anything that might be living, and then the nutrients were added again. This time, no carbon dioxide appeared. It looked very much like a confirmation. Something in the soil had been alive, now it wasn't.
However, other tests carried on Viking, such as one for organic molecules, were negative. Faced with these conflicting results, a consensus formed that Levin's results had to be from some chemical rather than biological process. But ever since, Levin has been arguing that these other tests were flawed. He's shown that the organic-molecules test couldn't detect the low concentrations that are now known to be capable of supporting life. There is a real possibility that Viking found what it was sent to find.
Yet the debate continues on and Kaufman covers all sides of the debate.
Strongly Recommended.
Five Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/First-Contact-...
Now like most avid readers I have quite the collection of unread books - it isn't an exaggeration on my part when I say that I think I have about a thousand or more unread books tucked away in one corner of my library and stored in my sister's unused bedroom - thanks Selma Franz!
One of the problem with reading a science book that is over ten years old is that some of the science being reported on is a bit outdated, still Kaufman's observations about the problem of determining what exactly life is and how it may be detected on Mars, Europa, and other worlds and moons in the Solar System.
One of this problems about detecting life beyond Earth is the long debated ambiguity of the Viking lander's results when it ran a suite of tests to look for life in Martian soil. Kaufman makes a fascinating case for the argument that it actually did find life.
Gil Levin, the scientist who designed an experiment that scooped up Martian soil, squirted nutrients into it that had been labeled with radioactive carbon-14, and waited to see if gases were emitted that carried that radioactive label.
If labeled gases were emitted, it would suggest that some microbe had eaten the nutrient and emitted a waste product. And in fact, that was exactly what was detected: a surge of radioactive carbon dioxide. As a control, the soil was then baked to high temperatures in an effort to kill off anything that might be living, and then the nutrients were added again. This time, no carbon dioxide appeared. It looked very much like a confirmation. Something in the soil had been alive, now it wasn't.
However, other tests carried on Viking, such as one for organic molecules, were negative. Faced with these conflicting results, a consensus formed that Levin's results had to be from some chemical rather than biological process. But ever since, Levin has been arguing that these other tests were flawed. He's shown that the organic-molecules test couldn't detect the low concentrations that are now known to be capable of supporting life. There is a real possibility that Viking found what it was sent to find.
Yet the debate continues on and Kaufman covers all sides of the debate.
Strongly Recommended.
Five Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/First-Contact-...
The Sun Down Motel
Just finished reading "The Sun Down Motel" by Simone St. James, released by Berkley.
With "The Sun Down Motel" St. James has created an engrossing Gothic thriller that combines two connected mysteries separated in time by 32 years.
The narrative alternates between Viv in 1982 and Carley in 2017. Each character has a distinctive voice and personality, but, due to the familial connection of being aunt and niece, are also very similar to one another.
Back in 1982, Viv left home and ended somehow in a small town called Fell. She gets a job in the Sun Down Motel as the night shift clerk. But there is not much business in Fell and there is nothing much to do. But the motel is haunted and there are ghosts going around. Viv soon learns that there has been quite a bit of murderous activity in Fell. She is intrigued, starts investigating, and soon disappears.
Nearly 33 years later, Viv's niece Carly is motivated by her mother's death from cancer to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her aunt and travels to Fell. She starts living with a roommate in exact the same flat Viv lived in. And of course the Sun Down Motel is short of a night shift clerk and she takes the job. She is basically reliving her aunt’s life.
Yet there are violent ghosts that haunt the hotel and are leading both Viv and Carly towards a horrible truth about a series of murders that are happening around Fell.
A masterful twisty Gothic mystery.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://www.amazon.com/Motel-Wheeler-...
With "The Sun Down Motel" St. James has created an engrossing Gothic thriller that combines two connected mysteries separated in time by 32 years.
The narrative alternates between Viv in 1982 and Carley in 2017. Each character has a distinctive voice and personality, but, due to the familial connection of being aunt and niece, are also very similar to one another.
Back in 1982, Viv left home and ended somehow in a small town called Fell. She gets a job in the Sun Down Motel as the night shift clerk. But there is not much business in Fell and there is nothing much to do. But the motel is haunted and there are ghosts going around. Viv soon learns that there has been quite a bit of murderous activity in Fell. She is intrigued, starts investigating, and soon disappears.
Nearly 33 years later, Viv's niece Carly is motivated by her mother's death from cancer to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her aunt and travels to Fell. She starts living with a roommate in exact the same flat Viv lived in. And of course the Sun Down Motel is short of a night shift clerk and she takes the job. She is basically reliving her aunt’s life.
Yet there are violent ghosts that haunt the hotel and are leading both Viv and Carly towards a horrible truth about a series of murders that are happening around Fell.
A masterful twisty Gothic mystery.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://www.amazon.com/Motel-Wheeler-...
June 2, 2023
The Ice People
Just finished reading "The Ice People" by Rene Barjavel, published by Pyramid Books.
I remember that both Mom and Dad had both read this book when it first came out in 1970. I do recall seeing it in he new arrival section of Michelle's Bookstore in the Brywn Mar Shopping Center in Jacksonville, North Carolina. If I'm remembering correctly, Mom bought "The Ice People"and after she had read it, she gave it to Dad. I don't know what happened to the copy that Mom had originally bought. I do remember that they did not let me read this book - I was eight years old when it came out. I do remember the cover which was why Mom and Dad probably didn't give it to me to read. If I had taken "The Ice People" to school to read between classes I probably would have been taken to the principal's office - no scratch that, I was taken to the principal's office multiple times for daring to read science fiction books during lunch and breaks and each time my parents told off the teacher and principal for complaining about what I was reading and when I was reading it.
Now I did happen to see a listing for "The Ice People" on eBay for nearly $50 and I remembered that I did recall seeing it at Chamblin's Book Mine here in Jacksonville, Florida, so I got it for only $4.00, plus tax.
When sub-surface radar discovers evidence of man-made structures under the ice in Antarctica, the world watches in wonder and astonishment as a golden sphere is unearthed containing the frozen bodies of a man and woman, both wearing masks and seemingly dead. Only they are in suspended animation and when they are successful in reviving the woman, whose name is Elea.
When asked, Elea begins to tell the story of how she came to be entombed 900,000 years ago when a super civilization that had reached the moon and Mars ruled the Earth, but was at war with itself and ultimately destroyed itself. What is set in motion as Elea tells the story of her world and time, is the eventual collapse of the modern world to due a woman's love and hate, and the fear of both the East and West over who might gain an advantage.
"The Ice People" is an engrossing tale that stands the test of time.
Strongly Recommended.
Five Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/Ice-People-PAP...
I remember that both Mom and Dad had both read this book when it first came out in 1970. I do recall seeing it in he new arrival section of Michelle's Bookstore in the Brywn Mar Shopping Center in Jacksonville, North Carolina. If I'm remembering correctly, Mom bought "The Ice People"and after she had read it, she gave it to Dad. I don't know what happened to the copy that Mom had originally bought. I do remember that they did not let me read this book - I was eight years old when it came out. I do remember the cover which was why Mom and Dad probably didn't give it to me to read. If I had taken "The Ice People" to school to read between classes I probably would have been taken to the principal's office - no scratch that, I was taken to the principal's office multiple times for daring to read science fiction books during lunch and breaks and each time my parents told off the teacher and principal for complaining about what I was reading and when I was reading it.
Now I did happen to see a listing for "The Ice People" on eBay for nearly $50 and I remembered that I did recall seeing it at Chamblin's Book Mine here in Jacksonville, Florida, so I got it for only $4.00, plus tax.
When sub-surface radar discovers evidence of man-made structures under the ice in Antarctica, the world watches in wonder and astonishment as a golden sphere is unearthed containing the frozen bodies of a man and woman, both wearing masks and seemingly dead. Only they are in suspended animation and when they are successful in reviving the woman, whose name is Elea.
When asked, Elea begins to tell the story of how she came to be entombed 900,000 years ago when a super civilization that had reached the moon and Mars ruled the Earth, but was at war with itself and ultimately destroyed itself. What is set in motion as Elea tells the story of her world and time, is the eventual collapse of the modern world to due a woman's love and hate, and the fear of both the East and West over who might gain an advantage.
"The Ice People" is an engrossing tale that stands the test of time.
Strongly Recommended.
Five Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/Ice-People-PAP...
June 1, 2023
In The Lives Of Puppets
Just finished reading "In The Lives Of Puppets" by T.J. Klune, published by TOR Books.
"In The Lives of Puppets" is a a LGBTQ+ retelling of The Adventures of Pinocchio. Think of it as Pinocchio meets Wall-E meets The Matrix.
Victor is Pinnochio, of course, with the tables turned. Gio, an android, is Geppetto. Love story one. "I wish you were real." Androids and humanity - love/hate. Victor, the only human in the story, manages to become a creator like his "father." All is not well - things go horribly wrong when Victor rescues and repairs HAP - a human hunting android. The love/hate between humanity and machines is not fixed like magic. But, then things take a different turn altogether. There is a mishmash of pop culture allusions sometimes - a naked Tinkerbell from Peter Pan? the Wizard of Oz's Emerald City and Oz (Gio), and also the "City of Electric Dreams" - Philip K. Dick's "Do Robots Dream of Electric Sheep."
Now I'm going to deduct a star because of there are some over preachy sections about sex and gender being a gender.
What makes "In The Lives Of Puppets" a poignant story is that it presents loss and the possibility of recovering and rebuilding family and love anew.
Strongly Recommended.
Four Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/Lives-Puppets-...
"In The Lives of Puppets" is a a LGBTQ+ retelling of The Adventures of Pinocchio. Think of it as Pinocchio meets Wall-E meets The Matrix.
Victor is Pinnochio, of course, with the tables turned. Gio, an android, is Geppetto. Love story one. "I wish you were real." Androids and humanity - love/hate. Victor, the only human in the story, manages to become a creator like his "father." All is not well - things go horribly wrong when Victor rescues and repairs HAP - a human hunting android. The love/hate between humanity and machines is not fixed like magic. But, then things take a different turn altogether. There is a mishmash of pop culture allusions sometimes - a naked Tinkerbell from Peter Pan? the Wizard of Oz's Emerald City and Oz (Gio), and also the "City of Electric Dreams" - Philip K. Dick's "Do Robots Dream of Electric Sheep."
Now I'm going to deduct a star because of there are some over preachy sections about sex and gender being a gender.
What makes "In The Lives Of Puppets" a poignant story is that it presents loss and the possibility of recovering and rebuilding family and love anew.
Strongly Recommended.
Four Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/Lives-Puppets-...
Night Lunch
Just finished reading "Night Lunch" by Eric Fan, and illustrated by Dena Seiferling, published by Tundra Books.
Usually the Fan Brothers jointly write and illustrate their books, so it was intriguing to see this solo debut by Eric Fan.
Set in the late evening hours of Victorian England, ""Night Lunch" explores one night in the journey of a lunch wagon - which was the precursors of modern day food trucks - and how Owl's act of kindness changes someone's evening.
The Fan Brothers usually illustrate their books with vibrant colors, so it was intriguing to see Eric Fan's story brought to life with muted night-time colors.
Highly Recommended!
Five Stars!
https://www.amazon.com/Night-Lunch-Er...
Usually the Fan Brothers jointly write and illustrate their books, so it was intriguing to see this solo debut by Eric Fan.
Set in the late evening hours of Victorian England, ""Night Lunch" explores one night in the journey of a lunch wagon - which was the precursors of modern day food trucks - and how Owl's act of kindness changes someone's evening.
The Fan Brothers usually illustrate their books with vibrant colors, so it was intriguing to see Eric Fan's story brought to life with muted night-time colors.
Highly Recommended!
Five Stars!
https://www.amazon.com/Night-Lunch-Er...
