Tuesday, November 08, 2022

Groo: Friends and Foes, Vol. 1 by Sergio Aragones with Mark Evanier

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I feel like I've read Groo  comics off-and-on almost since I knew what comics were, but that can't be true, on either end. The first...
Monday, November 07, 2022

Reviewing the Mail: Week of November 5, 2022

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Two library books this time, which I expect to read immediately. (This should not be surprising; it's the nature of library books. You n...
Saturday, November 05, 2022

Books Read: October 2022

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This is an index, and it's primarily for Future Me. If you find it useful, that's a nice bonus. Links will show up later, once the p...

Quote of the Week: How the Other Half Lives

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Sei had never been comfortable in the presence of books. Their natural state was to be shut, closed, to grin pagily from shelves, laughing a...
Friday, November 04, 2022

Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente

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I've had this book on my shelf almost as long as I thought I did. In my mind, it was there before Tragic Tuesday, the day I was expelled...
Thursday, November 03, 2022

Be Your Own Backing Band by Liz Prince

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Liz Prince really loves punk. This book is a love letter to the punk she loves, and it's fun and conversational and personal and all kin...
Wednesday, November 02, 2022

Goldilocks and the Infinite Bears by John McNamee

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Discovering something creative that you like is fun. Learning that it's over is sad. But what if you're not sure  if it's over o...
Tuesday, November 01, 2022

The Blouse by Bastien Vives

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Severine is a college student in Paris: mostly quiet, mostly diligent, fairly pretty. There's nothing extreme or outré  about her: she m...
Monday, October 31, 2022

Reviewing the Mail: Week of October 29, 2022

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Two books this time, both recently published and both from Tachyon. But, otherwise, they are quite different.... The Unbalancing  is a new b...
Saturday, October 29, 2022

Quote of the Week: I Don't Know But I've Been Told

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I was not looking for friendship at Fort Lewis. The people were boors. Trainees and drill sergeants and officers, no difference in kind. In ...
Friday, October 28, 2022

Skulldigger and Skeleton Boy by Jeff Lemire, Tonci Zonjic and Steve Wands

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Nigrum Malleoleum est omnis divisa in partes tres. Some Black Hammer  books have numbers in the title: those are the main series. Before the...
Thursday, October 27, 2022

Minecraft: Wither Without You, Vol. 3 by Kristen Gudsnuk

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So this is the end of a trilogy: I don't expect you'll know what's going on unless you're familiar with the first two books ...
Wednesday, October 26, 2022

If I Die In a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien

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The full title of this book may actually be If I Die In a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home , but it's usually cited as just the f...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Omni-Visibilis by Lewis Trondheim and Matthieu Bonhomme

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Herve Boileau is an everyman in Paris: more than a little neurotic, too much of a neat freak, a bit too creepy towards women. But basically ...
Monday, October 24, 2022

Reviewing the Mail: Week of October 22, 2022

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This week I have one library book - that I actually walked in and picked up off a shelf, like in the Olden Days. Although...I was looking at...