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The Demon and The City by Liz Williams

(Book 3 from my list for the Once Upon a Time Challenge)

In August of last year I reviewed the first book in a new series by author Liz Williams, Snake Agent. My introduction to that review read:

“Take a healthy dose of mythology and eastern religion, mix in the humor of Big Trouble in Little China and the buddy-cop banter of Lethal Weapon and adorn with a fantastic Jon Foster cover and what do you get? Well, you get the beginnings of an entertaining new mystery series by author Liz Williams.”

Described as “John Constatine meets Chow Yun-Fat”, the series follows the exploits of Detective Inspector Wei Chen and his demonic law enforcement counterpart, Seneschal Zhu Irzh, as they solve occultic crimes set in a near-future city called Singapore 3.

The Demon and The City is the second in this series of buddy-cop/mythological/supernatural thrillers.

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Once Upon Half Time

… we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that’s so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.
~Paul Bowles

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Thursday Things

For those of you who have been sharing comments on the Poppet Planet thread: The Key is the Thing: The Art of the Symbolic, I encourage you to check out the work of photographer/web designer Thorii Pablo. You can see his work on his blog site and many more interesting photographs on his flickr site, many of which, I feel, fit into some of the symbolic, iconic imagery we are talking about in that post.

He has some pictures of old typewriters that I just love and his Red Phone Society pictures are a very fun concept.

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