Introducing February's Fictitious Foe

 Sixer: What was your first DWJ?


Bevity: Howl's Moving Castle . . . . After I saw the Miyazaki movie.


Sixer: Hehe. Nice introduction. I think my first Diana Wynne Jones was Witch Week. But I read The Homeward Bounders while getting my hair micro braided


Bevity: I haven't read that one yet.


Sixer: It's depressing. It's like The Lives of Christopher Chant, only he doesn't have nine lives, get the girl, or discover he's a powerful sorcerer. Instead he ends up being semi-immortal, which he doesn't realize until he meets his grand-niece.


Bevity: Sounds depressing.


Sixer: Unlike our randomly selected work for this month.


Bevity:  Which is brilliantly clever and traditionally Diana Wynne Jones  – by taking something well known and turning it on it's head in an unconventional and original way.


Sixer: Do you want to tell them what it is?


Bevity: Drumroll please . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  The Dark Lord of Derkholm (Exclamation point!)


Sixer: Which we've both already started at this point.


Bevity: We're bloglazy.


Sixer: Shouldn't that be hyphenated?


Bevity: Sure

Welcome Internet!

Sixer: Hello World, and welcome to Sock and Spoons.

Bevity: The.

Sixer: Yes, the Socks and Spoons.

Bevity: Brigade.

Sixer: Whatever. Anyway, welcome to our humble outpouring of . . .

Bevity: Geniusness. And, can we explain that this is a book blog?

Sixer: Yes, I was just getting to that. Our plan is to read a book a month - and watch a gazilion movies - and then review them.

Bevity: Here's a real introduction: Welcome Internet! These are the fabulous and spectacularly intelligent musings of Bevity and Sixer on various novels and films of interest. We will be reading and reviewing monthly for at least until we get bored.

Sixer: Or realize we're boring. So, do you want to intorduce our first victim, or shall I?

Bevity: You've already read it, so you do it.

Sixer: Oh, I wasn't really going to admit to that. But oh well, fine. We chose January's book based on Bevity's recommendation, since the movie is - apparently - briliant.

Bevity: Chritopher Nolan never fails to amaze. Christopher Nolan is Pixar for grownups. He's the writer-director of Inception, Batman Begins, Dark Knight . . . .

Sixer: Geek. Moving on. After years of ripping apart movies which failed to live up to the books they were based on, we might have actually found one that improves upon its source material. I don't know, I've only just read the book and haven't actually watched the movie yet. But I'm really hoping the movie is better. Really, really, really, hoping.

Bevity: I guess we'll just have to see. I just want to clarify that not all the movies we review will be based on the book of the month. Also not all posts will be based in logic or have anything to do with what we've just said.