Monday, August 28, 2017

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 8/26

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Another week has passed, so at least we've got that behind us. Ahead is only more of the same. But we're thinking apes -- at leas...
Monday, August 21, 2017

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 8/19

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Hey guys! If I had gotten any books in the mail last week, I'd write about them here. I didn't, so I can't. This is totally ...
Monday, August 14, 2017

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 8/12

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I have my limits. I do try to be as honest as possible about the books that come in my mail -- to present them as positively as I can, eve...
Friday, August 11, 2017

Quotes of the Week

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One from the beginning, one from the end: "The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had ju...
Wednesday, August 09, 2017

The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell

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I had a mental image of this book that wasn't really correct. You might have it, too. The standard blurb for  The Road to Wigan Pier...
Tuesday, August 08, 2017

Hawkeye, Vol. 4: Rio Bravo by Matt Fraction, David Aja, and others

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Not to give it all away up front, but I don't think this all adds up to even as much as the sum of its parts. Sure, the Fraction/Aja ...
Monday, August 07, 2017

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 8/5

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This week's crop of mail -- that's a horribly mixed metaphor, but let it go -- brought two books for me to tell you about. And I...
Thursday, August 03, 2017

Saga Volume Seven by Fiona Staples and Brian K. Vaughan

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Trust is a tricky thing in stories: you have to trust the person telling the story will do a good job to keep rewarding that person with y...
Wednesday, August 02, 2017

Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea

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Wait. I thought Hellboy was dead? I mean, yes, he died and went to hell, but I also thought that series ended and Mignola was going to r...
Tuesday, August 01, 2017

Betty Boop by Roger Langridge and Gisele Lagace

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I have no idea why someone said, in the year 2016, "Hey, what this world really needs is a Betty Boop comic book!" It seems li...
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Read in July

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If you're American, Canadian, or French, this was the month where you celebrated how totally awesome and free your country is. If not, w...
Monday, July 31, 2017

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 7/29

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Every week, your host -- the laziest of all book-bloggers -- posts on Monday morning a lightly annotated list of the books that arrived in...
Saturday, July 29, 2017

Incoming Books: July 26

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Explaining the details is tedious and you certainly don't care -- so let's just say that I had a gift card I wanted to make sure I...
Friday, July 28, 2017

How The Hell Did This Happen? by P.J. O'Rourke

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You goddamn asshole, P.J. O'Rourke. You, of all people, have the unmitigated gall to title a book How The Hell Did This Happen? and ...
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Quote of the Week

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"For example, the phrase 'I’ve spent a conflict-free life' is not something a person could honestly say if he had, in fact, tak...