Wednesday, July 31, 2019

The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson

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I never really noticed there were no women in Lovecraft's Dreamlands. In my defense, it's often difficult to notice things that ar...
Monday, July 29, 2019

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 7/27/19

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So I ordered books recently from the organization that doesn't seem to be called Edward R. Hamilton anymore. (I do wonder who was Ham...
Friday, July 26, 2019

Quote of the Week: Literary Influences

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But this tendency of Huck Finn  to cause other writers to write books extremely similar to it but worse is telling; the voice of the book re...
Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Creatures of Light and Darkness by Roger Zelazny

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This is my favorite book by one of my favorite writers. I haven't read it in a couple of decades. For some people, those would be co...
Monday, July 22, 2019

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 7/20/19

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Every summer that I have summer hours -- which is been most of them since I got out of actual fiction book publishing (confusingly counter...
Thursday, July 18, 2019

Pillow Fight by Brandon Graham

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So this is not a book to review , exactly. But, since I'm doing posts on all of the books I read -- even now, in my lesser state this ...
Wednesday, July 17, 2019

The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

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Severian obviously  had a presentiment of his future. But Gene Wolfe is a writer who will never say anything outright if he can instead hi...
Monday, July 15, 2019

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 7/13/19

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Back again! This week I have one book, which came in the mail, as is traditional. Lavie Tidhar's The Violent Century  is a 2013 SF n...
Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Curious Customs by Tad Tuleja

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It's weird to think that the world has changed irrevocably in your own life. Even weirder when those changes are silly, minor things, ...
Monday, July 08, 2019

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 7/6/19

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This week I have one book: a middle-grade graphic novel coming from Little, Brown in January 2020. In fact, it's so  far in the futu...
Friday, July 05, 2019

Quote of the Week: The Possibly Proper Death Litany

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Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I have to say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything...
Monday, June 24, 2019

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 6/22/19

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I should have listed these two books last week; they were birthday presents that I got at a party last Saturday. (That party was already p...
Monday, June 10, 2019

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 6/8/19

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Three books this week, all of which came in the mail. (One of them is a repeat, though -- I'll start with that one.) The Last Tsar...
Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Jeeves in the Offing by P.G. Wodehouse

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I've written here, a number of times, that I turn to P.G. Wodehouse when I'm in a reading slump. I hope every reader has a writer ...
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Monday, May 27, 2019

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 5/25/19

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One book this week, which came in the mail (like the old days!): Kingdom of the Cursed  is a new fantasy novel by Greg Keyes, second in ...