Read in November 2018

Coming up on the end of the year, I've hit the point where I have to engage in hard-core planning for Book-A-Day to come out right. You see, this year I'm both reading a book a day and posting a review of a book every day. And I'm now 14 days ahead for posts written and an additional 9 days beyond that in books read and slotted for particular days.

So I've got a few multi-book things I still want to get through, and I'm expecting there will be a passel of posts about those in the frantic last days of the year. (Well, some sooner than that: I hope to write a big post on the Grant Morrison Doom Patrol this coming Saturday, which will go live on November 29th.)

But doing that too quickly will mean that I could overrun the read-but-not-written buffer, and leave me with a day where I can't write about anything. I'm also realizing that if I write a post a day, and I'm already 14 days ahead, Book-A-Day will inevitably run into at least mid-January unless I set up half of December with double posts.

It is a puzzlement. It's also a bizarre, entirely self-inflicted problem. And I tried to solve that problem with these books in this order...

Shannon Wheeler, Memoirs of a Very Stable Genius (11/1)

Gilbert Hernandez, The Children of Palomar (11/2)

Michael Moorcock and Howard V. Chaykin, The Swords of Heaven, The Flowers of Hell (11/3)

Grant Morrison, Richard Case, and others, Doom Patrol, Book 1 (11/4)

Grant Morrison, Richard Case, and others, Doom Patrol, Book 2 (11/5)

Svetlana Chmakova, Crush (11/6)

Grant Morrison, Richard Case, and others, Doom Patrol, Vol. 5 (11/7)

Adam Resnick, Will Not Attend (11/8)

Grant Morrison, Richard Case, and others, Doom Patrol, Vol. 6 (11/8)

Masamune Shirow, The Ghost in the Shell 2.0: Man-Machine Interface (11/9)

The Hernandez Brothers, Love and Rockets: New Stories, No. 7 (11/10)

Brennan Lee Mulligan and Molly Ostertag, Strong Female Protagonist, Book Two (11/11)

Matt Wagner, Mage: The Hero Defined (11/12)

Matt Kindt, 3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man (11/13)

Zander Cannon, Kaijumax, Season 3: King of the Monstas (11/14)

Pam Smy, Thornhill (11/14)

Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, and James Harren, B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth, Vol. 11: Flesh and Stone (11/15)

Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, Peter Snejbjerg, and Julian Totino Tedesco, B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth, Vol. 12: Metamorphosis (11/15)

Jamie S. Rich and Nicolas Hitori De, Spell Checkers (11/15)

Jamie S. Rich and Nicolas Hitori De, Spell Checkers, Vol. 2: Son of a Preacher Man (11/15)

Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, and Laurence Campbell, B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth, Vol. 13: End of Days (11/16)

Kyle Baker, You Are Here (11/17)

Evan Dorkin, Dork (11/18)

The Hernandez Brothers, Love and Rockets: New Stories, No. 8 (11/19)

Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis, Kevin Maguire, and Al Gordon, Justice League International, Vol. 1 (11/20)

Larry Marder, Beanworld Omnibus, Vol. 1 (11/21)

Matt Wagner and various artists, Grendel Omnibus, Vol. 1: Hunter Rose (11/22)

Matt Wagner and various collaborators, Grendel Omnibus, Vol. 2: The Legacy (11/23)

Matt Wagner and various artists, Grendel Omnibus, Vol. 3: Orion's Reign (11/24)

Matt Wagner and various collaborators, Grendel Omnibus, Vol. 4: Prime (11/25)

Marc Sobel and Kristy Valenti, editors, The Love and Rockets Companion (11/25)

Dan Zettwoch and Kevin Huizenga, Amazing Facts and Beyond! with Leon Beyond (11/26)

Jim Ottaviani and various artists, Fallout (11/27)

Ryan North and Eric Henderson, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 6: Who Run the World? Squirrels (11/28)

Brian K. Vaughan and various artists, The Escapists (11/29)

Jeff Parker and various artists, Batman '66, Vol. 1 (11/30)


That was November. Next up: figuring how to end and sum up Book-A-Day 2018.