Tuesday, March 05, 2024

Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls

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We are all haunted by history, one way or another. For some, it's personal; for others, it's public. After the 20th century we had, ...
Monday, March 04, 2024

Portions for Foxes: Elizabeth Cook

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"Portions for Foxes" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song by a woman or a band led by a woman. See  the introduction  ...
Sunday, March 03, 2024

Books Read: February 2024

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Here I am again: this is what I read last month. Links will follow as always. Mike Mignola and Warwick Johnson-Cadwell, Falconspeare  (2/3, ...
Saturday, March 02, 2024

Quote of the Week: A Metaphor, if You Want It

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So what of this horse, then, that actually held opinions, and was skeptical about things? Unusual behavior for a horse, wasn't it? An un...
Friday, March 01, 2024

How Not to Get Into Heaven by Ben Zaehringer

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I end up saying this a lot: I enjoy good gag-a-day cartoons, but there's not a whole lot to say about a collection of them. Ben Zaehring...
Thursday, February 29, 2024

The Story of Sex by Philippe Brenot and Laetitia Coryn

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You might say, "that's a mighty big topic to cover in one l'il 200-page book, now, isn't it, pardner?" (If you weren...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

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I have to start with the hard facts: Douglas Adams died, of a sudden heart attack, more than twenty years ago, when he was five years younge...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Michael T. Gilbert's The Complete Wraith!

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Sometimes there's a creator whose work you like, and you keep checking to see if they have anything new, and they just don't . For a...
Monday, February 26, 2024

Portions for Foxes: Charly Bliss

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"Portions for Foxes" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song by a woman or a band led by a woman. See  the introduction  ...
Saturday, February 24, 2024

Quote of the Week: God's Daisy-Chain

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The head of the house, Mrs Lavender Botts, has a distressing habit of writing books and talking a good deal about them. Her works were not n...
Friday, February 23, 2024

McCay by Thierry Smolderen and Jean-Philippe Bramanti

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I don't know why creators - people who make up their own ideas out of their own heads and often are indignant at the idea that those ide...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

A Fade of Light by Nate Fakes

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I low-key love that this is a book about the author's former stepfather. We all have so many important people in our lives over the year...
Wednesday, February 21, 2024

A Few Quick Ones by P.G. Wodehouse

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I'm reading P.G. Wodehouse books three or four times a year these days - they all read quickly, he was a master of effortless funny pros...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Fungirl by Elizabeth Pich

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It shouldn't be surprising when we get cringe comedy from a woman - we're more than a decade past Bridesmaids , after all - but it f...
Monday, February 19, 2024

Portions for Foxes: Basia Bulat

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"Portions for Foxes" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song by a woman or a band led by a woman. See  the introduction  ...