Comedian Jillian Jackson is midway through a tour of seedy venues, accompanied by her pet pot-plant Fred. Her coworkers, having been told she was only mugged, cheer her up by telling her she's a badass, while her boss pushes back her meetings to give her more time to prepare. Bonnie confronts the girl in front of her apartment building and accuses her of being reckless, but the girl brushes her off as crazy. Whether it’s literature, science, fine art or popular culture, the moon still has the capability to transfix us.

With works such as Crown, Third Eye, Throat, Sacrum and Root, the artist creates glowing celestial orbs relating to the human body.By The Light of The Moon" is not one of Dean Koontz's most popular novels, but it's certainly one of the most fast-paced. This is an elegantly written story with memorable and likable characters that starts with my favorite opening Koontz paragraph. Then he is told that he must flee—before the doctor’s enemies hunt him down for the secret circulating through his body. Bonnie and her coworkers go out to a bar where she has many drinks as well as a little bit of cocaine.

In Japanese tradition, taking a hot bath with the citrus fruit yuzu on the winter solstice is believed to help ward off colds. Rarely has a character been so instantly embraced by readers as Koontz's unlikely hero, Odd Thomas, the wise and gentle fry cook, who just happens to see dead people. characters are brought together by chance and circumstance and injected with an evil substance of God knows what by a mad scientist type of man. Seized by sinister premonitions, they find themselves inexplicably drawn to crime scenes—just minutes before the crimes take place. Dylan sets himself apart through his actions, and survives not through his own cunning, but also through the help of his brother and newly found friend.This elusiveness is a theme that frequently appears in artistic representations, whether that’s the swirling ephemerality of Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night, the romantic contemplation of Caspar David Friedrich’s Two Men Contemplating the Moon, the dream-like atmosphere of Henri Rousseau’s Sleeping Gypsy or enigmatic Bronze Age objects such as the 1600 BCE “ Nebra Sky Disk”. It's one of his more successful attempts to incorporate elements of science fiction into a foundation of suspense and intrigue, and then he winds it all up by turning it into a superhero origin tale. Their only chance to survive is to discover the meaning of the messages that Shep, with precious time running out, begins to repeat, about a man who does his work. I have been putting off reading (or listening to) this book because it's a rather large-ish book and the cover-blurb gave me the impression the themes of this Koontz novel were a bit more fantastical than I generally prefer.