Thursday, December 14, 2023

Pixels of You by Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota, and J.R. Doyle

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It's not usual for a creative team to accrete members over time. OK, sure, you can think of bands that got bigger as they got successful...
Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Quite a Mountain by Jim Benton

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This book was shorter than I expected, so today's post should be quick. Last time around with Jim Benton, I read and enjoyed his all-age...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023

The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque by Jeffrey Ford

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My tags are inadequate today: this is a novel of historical fiction, without anything I'd call a fantasy element (there is some backgrou...
Monday, December 11, 2023

This Year: 2020

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"This Year" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song from one year of my life. See  the introduction  for more. I've b...
Sunday, December 10, 2023

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 12/9/2023

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Two weeks in a row! I haven't had new physical books coming in two weeks in a row for quite a while - and this week, like last, it's...
Saturday, December 09, 2023

Quote of the Week: Time-Binding

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It would be a while before I realized that "me" is what we think when our parents die, even at my age, who will look out for me no...
Friday, December 08, 2023

Wrinkles by Paco Roca

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Emilio used to be a bank manager. He knows that. In his early seventies, in the early stages of Alzheimer's, sometimes that's the bi...
Thursday, December 07, 2023

Lunarbaboon: The Daily Life of Parenthood by Christopher Grady

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I fight with my tags, here on the blog. They tend to proliferate, with a core that I use a lot and a loose penumbra of things that I thought...
Wednesday, December 06, 2023

The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell & The Fate of the Artist

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First of all: this volume contains two things, which it does say pretty clearly: the title is   The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell ...
Tuesday, December 05, 2023

Where I Was From by Joan Didion

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California. That's the first answer to the implied question of the title - as we all knew. But America  is as important: the dream of Am...
Monday, December 04, 2023

This Year: 2019

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"This Year" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song from one year of my life. See  the introduction  for more. A few time...
Sunday, December 03, 2023

Books Read: November 2023

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I do this every month, and here it is again. As always, it's an index, mostly for my own use, but if it points you to something interest...

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 12/2/2023

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I happened to be at a library grabbing a movie, and, somehow , just by wandering by some shelves, I found three books to read. I have no ide...
Saturday, December 02, 2023

Quote of the Week: Under Observation

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He was a scientist, which translated into a Peeping Tom. Living things were meant to be observed. They were meant to attract attention. Not ...
Friday, December 01, 2023

Success Is 90% Spite by Jane Zei

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I admit this is a weird thing I do: I read full books from webcomics that I don't follow. But I want to argue that it isn't  weird. ...