2011 Book Review #60: Lady Lazarus

Title: Lady Lazarus
Author: Michele Lang
Genre: Fantasy (WWII urban)
Thingummies: 3

Synopsis: On the eve of World War II in Budapest, Magdalena Lazarus's younger sister gasps out a prophecy of the coming Holocaust. A witch and a Jew, Magda knows she will have no hope if this future comes to pass. In search of a fabled book that might be their salvation, Magda is chased across Europe by demons and SS werewolves. She must break her strongest vows and summon her family's guardian angel...with whom she is dangerously close to falling in love.

Thoughts: ( So, what did you think? )

...am I a cool kid?

I went to a storytelling cabaret thing featuring a bunch of people from The Moth at the KGB Bar with ivy03 this evening. If I had a mental image of what cool people do in New York, I think this was it. Incredibly funky, strange little bar on the second floor in the East Village, with a tiny little tap room, completely red paint, decorated in Marxist paraphrenalia. Incredibly hip, self-deprecating people being self-deprecating and witty, with a eccentric trivia contest and an accordian-dj. 16-year-old me would never have believed that I might actually end up in such a place without being ritually stoned (not the good kind) and evicted. The 16-year-old still in me is mighty impressed.

Tragically hip and ironic. I feel like I'm officially a New Yorker now.

In other news, the goat cheese ice cream is fabulous with walnuts and some honey drizzled over it.