Wednesday, July 05, 2017

Pulse by Julian Barnes

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I discovered Barnes, and burned through all of his books to that point, before I started this blog, so I don't have links for the nov...
Tuesday, July 04, 2017

Great Plains by Ian Frazier

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Ian Frazier is a long-time New Yorker writer, and one of the few who straddles the line between the two kinds of writing they're kn...
Monday, July 03, 2017

Reviewing the Mail: Week of July 1

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Here I am again, with a list of books that came in to my mailbox over the past week, hoping that some of you will find something new and f...
Saturday, July 01, 2017

Read in June

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We're now halfway through 2017, which is a hopeful sign -- if we can make it through these six months, we can make it through anything. ...
Friday, June 30, 2017

Quote of the Week

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In most lives, in most places, people go missing. This isn't as true as it was in a less connected age; people see more of their high sc...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Aama, Vo. 2: The Invisible Throng by Frederik Peeters

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We're continuing a space-opera series in comics form here: my understanding is that there are four books in this series, and that it ...
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Kaijumax, Season One: Terror and Respect by Zander Cannon

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I tend not to give up on things, so in my head Zander Cannon is still in the middle of a really long hiatus from his early and excellent ...
Monday, June 26, 2017

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 6/24

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Back again! As usual, this is the place where I list books that have arrived in my mail the past week, sent by the hard-working publicis...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

Hawkeye, Vol. 1 by Matt Fraction, David Aja, and others

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I don't keep up with superhero comics anymore -- I have to admit that. Astro City was probably the last thing in that vein I read regul...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017

One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg

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I really do not want to be that guy. One Hundred Nights of Hero is a lovely book, with gorgeous art and compelling words, and it's an...
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Melody: Story of a Nude Dancer by Sylvie Rancourt

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If Stephen Hero were female, Francophone, and made a living by dancing naked, he'd be Melody. She is her creator, transformed onto th...
Monday, June 19, 2017

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 6/17

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This week, I'm going to be telling you about three books that I first saw inside mailing envelopes. But not all of them were surprises...
Thursday, June 15, 2017

Patience by Dan Clowes

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Dan Clowes has made occasional forays into SFnal territory over his career -- The Death-Ray being the most obvious example, but there hav...
Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Compass South by Hope Larson and Rebecca Mock

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Everybody's got to eat. And if you want to make a career out of creative work, you're probably going to find yourself, more and m...
Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier

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I had something like five hundred words typed about this book -- pretty much the whole post -- but I deleted it instead of cut-and-pasting...