Angel's Adjectives: Aaargh and rowwwr. Unlike many horror fans, I'm not a zombie fanatic. I picked this book up for two reasons: I wanted to see how writers were making zombie stories so interesting that they'd gotten popular. I loved the cover. As a closet reader of romance and gothic novels, it attracted me. I had a great time reading…

Angel's Adjectives: Ponderous and prim China Mievelle has a reputation as a fabulous writer, and yet, reading this book, I got the impression that people loved it because there's an intellectual (physics) concept at its core, and thus, reading it makes them intellectual by extension. Not. Mieville has a good command of the language, and this is the only book…

Angel’s Adjectives: Bold and Brilliant Have you ever read a book that gave you the feeling you were in the company of greatness? Joe Hill’s Horns did that for me. It’s the story of a man who discovers a growing affinity with the devil as he unravels the circumstances surrounding his murdered girlfriend. Its primary theme is that sin is…

Angel's adjectives: helpful and succinct I feel compelled to tell you about this book. It was recommended to me by a friend of mine (Matthew Haley) who is a film director, and it's wonderful. Maybe it hit me at just the right point in my "writerly" development, or maybe it's just an amazing book. It's called Invisible Ink, written by…