The Coven

Ka, been wanting to tell you about this book I was reading before school started. The Lecturer’s Tale by James Hynes. It’s about this down and out literature professor who, on the day that he’s fired from his job, has a freak accident that causes his finger to be severed. When it’s sewn back, he discovers that he can make people do his bidding if he touches them with his re-attached finger… oooh! ;P He uses his new powers to get ahead in the perfidious, backbiting world of the English Department, and here the fun begins. The characters are so wacky and pathetic, it makes me wonder if Mr Hynes really just made them up. They certainly sound crazy enough to be real people! If I were tasked to find a den of dementeds, surely an English department is one of the first places I'd look. Eheheh ;P