Monday, September 05, 2022

Why You Should Not Send Me Review Copies

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Monday mornings, around here, is where I list new books (and, when I don't have any, old ones instead). Once upon a time, I got a lot of...
Saturday, September 03, 2022

Books Read: August 2022

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This is an index to the blog, since it's basically a book-review venue these days. I don't really expect anyone else to care about t...
Friday, September 02, 2022

Quote of the Week: Truth in Advertising

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Maurice did his kibbling at Katz's Kosher Kibble Kompany, which is owned by our family and is the maker of Katz's Kosher Kitty Kibbl...
Thursday, September 01, 2022

Black Hammer/Justice League: Hammer of Justice! by Jeff Lemire, Michael Walsh & Nate Piekos

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In the life of every licensed superhero comic, there will come an especially blessed day: Baby's First Crossover. This, my dear hearts a...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

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When I was a teenager, I came across a list of the most commonly banned books in the USA - and, of course, I posted it on my bulletin board ...
Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Bionic by Koren Shadmi

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Victor is a geeky teenager, mildly bullied by the jockish types at his high school - but also smart and skilled enough to be rebuilding old ...
Monday, August 29, 2022

Reading Into the Past: Week of August 29, 2002

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So this blog series is silly; I know it. When I don't have new books to write about for a Monday, I instead use a random-number generato...
Friday, August 26, 2022

Quote of the Week: The Family Business

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I didn't want to climb in bed with Karina for fear that she might wake up and ask me to explain why I was putting our son's life on ...
Thursday, August 25, 2022

Little Nothings, Vol. 3: Uneasy Happiness by Lewis Trondheim

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If I wanted to be dismissive, I'd describe this book as collecting daily watercolor comics pages about French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Blackwood by Evan Dorkin, Veronica Fish, and Andy Fish

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All the most interesting people have the least-likely careers. (Says the man who started out as a SF editor and somehow ended up doing conte...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Trouble Is What I Do by Walter Mosley

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Every genre has a continuum: some works are off at one end, some way out the other way, and most of them in clusters scattered around in the...
Monday, August 22, 2022

Reviewing the Mail: Week of August 20, 2022

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One book this time out; it came in the mail, as is traditional. It's a new book in a SFF vein, from a writer I've read before, just ...
Friday, August 19, 2022

Quote of the Week: Why, Hello!

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This isn't the first time I've been completely naked before I got around to introducing myself, But it's the first time I've...
Thursday, August 18, 2022

Kaijumax: Season Four: Scaly Is the New Black by Zander Cannon

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When I find myself reading a book in a series, and not remembering all of the details of previous entries, I wonder if it's a failure in...
Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Sheets by Brenna Thummler

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Some books you read because you get a specific recommendation - an award win, a glowing review somewhere, it's made into a movie. Some y...