Thursday, April 17, 2025
The Messenger Boy Murders
The Messenger Boy Murders by Perihan Mağden
Returning home from his travels, Stravrogin is asked by the local book store owner to investigate a disturbing string of messenger boy murders that has recently plagued the city. As he unwillingly takes up the case of the mysterious deaths, he is met at every turn with unusual people and circumstances. It is like an adult fairy tale where the rules of life are gently suspended and you are immersed in a strangely mysterious, yet logically consistent, place and time. I was enthralled and look forward to reading more by Perihan Mağden.
Saturday, April 05, 2025
Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians
Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson
On his 13th birthday Alcatraz Smedry received his inheritance, a bag of sand sent to him by the father he has never seen. He thought the sand was a strange joke until the evil Librarians came to steal it.
We all know that Librarians are nice people who recommend good books, but in this book meant for young children, that’s just what they want you to think! In this book they’re actually dangerous. In this book they are a cult of evil librarians keeping people from the truth and secretly ruling the world. They control what gets read, what gets seen, and what gets learned, and because of that they have power over everyone. In the world the author has created most governments don't even know that they're being manipulated by these evil librarians. Alcatraz was fooled like everyone else until his Grandpa Smedry shows up and talks Alcatraz to go with him to the main public library to retrieve the stolen bag of special sand before the librarians can melt the sand down and turn it into a glass lens of power. I don't like that the author portrays librarians as evil, deceitful, and cruel to young children who probably will come in contact with this book in their local public library. These days librarians are being attacked by small minded adults who do not want any views but their own to be available to the public, but to turn that story around and blame librarians for preventing freedom of information rather than championing it seems sinister. Do a little mental exercise and change the librarians in the story to priests and ministers, and imagine what kind of reaction this book would get.
On his 13th birthday Alcatraz Smedry received his inheritance, a bag of sand sent to him by the father he has never seen. He thought the sand was a strange joke until the evil Librarians came to steal it.
We all know that Librarians are nice people who recommend good books, but in this book meant for young children, that’s just what they want you to think! In this book they’re actually dangerous. In this book they are a cult of evil librarians keeping people from the truth and secretly ruling the world. They control what gets read, what gets seen, and what gets learned, and because of that they have power over everyone. In the world the author has created most governments don't even know that they're being manipulated by these evil librarians. Alcatraz was fooled like everyone else until his Grandpa Smedry shows up and talks Alcatraz to go with him to the main public library to retrieve the stolen bag of special sand before the librarians can melt the sand down and turn it into a glass lens of power. I don't like that the author portrays librarians as evil, deceitful, and cruel to young children who probably will come in contact with this book in their local public library. These days librarians are being attacked by small minded adults who do not want any views but their own to be available to the public, but to turn that story around and blame librarians for preventing freedom of information rather than championing it seems sinister. Do a little mental exercise and change the librarians in the story to priests and ministers, and imagine what kind of reaction this book would get.
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