Chapter By Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at the time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.
(I didn’t initially leave space to link to the previous chapter, so here’s me correcting that.
I tend to have a problem when I near the end of a book I’m reviewing under this banner. Eventually I run out of ways to open the next installment without spoilers on the home page. I’ve also run out of characters to talk about in Who history so…I don’t know, let me discuss my history with the franchise for the remaining chapters I guess.
I first heard of Doctor Who from a friend of mine who caught it at 6 PM on our local PBS station. Since that was typically when we had supper as my dad came home from work and we didn’t have a VCR at the time I didn’t catch it. Eventually we did get a VCR and a PBS station out of Massachusetts aired them by editing the serials into a movie format, something closer to what we get with modern airings of found episodes or animated replacements of missing episodes if they air on TV. (Think “Power Of The Daleks” or “Shada”.) Eventually our local station altered the air time and I got to see that show. Eventually I came across comics and novelizations, the comics already reviewed and the novelizations I may do in the future. For now let’s see if any of our new mysteries get solved in today’s chapter.
