Reading Roundup Update: January 2012

[steve_mollmann]

Another month, another set of reviews published:

Doctor Who:
Professor Bernice Summerfield II: A Life of Surprises edited by Paul Cornell
Doctor Who: Short Trips #22: The Ghosts of Christmas edited by Cavan Scott & Mark Wright
Doctor Who #153: The Silver Turk by Marc Platt
Doctor Who #154: The Witch from the Well by Rick Briggs
Doctor Who #155: Army of

Comments

[tiggerallyn]

I read your review of Murder Mysteries, and I hadn't picked up on the fact that it had some slight ties to Lucifer until you pointed them out. That's kinda neat.

I liked how Murder Mysteries went from being a standard fare cozy British mystery that Agatha Christie or Dorothy Sayers might've written and turned into an examination of the Problem of Evil. That seems to be a particular interest of Gaiman's; his Narnia story also goes there, and I've made the same arguments against a deity that Susan makes in that story. Of all the justifications for atheism, it's the Problem of Evil that I find the most emotionally satisfying, though that's not the reason I'm a heathen.

I've been meaning to read Lucifer, but I've never gotten around to it. Maybe I will this year.

[steve_mollmann]

A bit further into Lucifer, and I'm not sure it tracks entirely; according to Lucifer he's called "Sariel" before he rebels, though I guess we could chalk that up to the retelling. Lucifer is well worth your time; if DC released it an an Omnibus series or something like that, I'd spring for it.

I should reread "The Problem of Susan"; I barely remember it at this point.