Friday, September 06, 2024

Gahan Wilson's Even Weirder

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I'm pretty sure I read this book; I'm pretty sure I owned it. Gahan Wilson's Even Weirder  is a 1996 Tor collection of Wilson...
Thursday, September 05, 2024

Planet Paradise by Jesse Lonergan

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This is not a sequel to Hedra . There's no way it could be set in the same universe. But they're from the same creator, from the sam...
Wednesday, September 04, 2024

The Face by Jack Vance

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I don't want to say that Kirth Gersen has fallen into a groove - or that the novels about him have - but there are similarities to all o...
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Tuesday, September 03, 2024

Little Josephine: Memory in Pieces by Valérie Villieu and Raphaël Sarfati

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The book is not nearly as puckish as the cover suggests. Anyone looking for a Little Nemo -inspired imaginative adventure should look elsewh...
Monday, September 02, 2024

Portions for Foxes: Kate Miller-Heidke

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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, September 01, 2024

Books Read: August 2024

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This is the monthly index post for the blog; if you find it useful, yay for you but it's really something I do for myself. Here's wh...

Reviewing the Mail: Week of August 31, 2024

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One book came in the mail this week, so I'm going to tell you about it here. (I also got books other ways, since I was on vacation, but ...
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Quote of the Week: Not His Favorite Place, I'm Guessing

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Las Vegas is merely another low, drab, sun-baked stucco flatlands town - America has a thousand such, and I've probably seen the shoppin...
Friday, August 30, 2024

Bigby Bear, Vol. 1 by Philipe Coudray

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"All-ages" can mean a lot of things. Sometimes it means "designed for the youngest, dullest children and shoved out into the ...
Thursday, August 29, 2024

I Know a Trick Worth Two of That by Donald Westlake writing as Samuel Holt

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This is the second book in a series Donald Westlake wrote in the '80s - it appeared under the pseudonym "Samuel Holt," also th...
Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Mark Twain's The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg by Wander Antunes

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This is a story doubly distanced: originally written more than a hundred years ago, about a small-town America that is no longer like this (...
Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Eartha by Cathy Malkasian

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Cathy Malkasian's 2017 graphic novel Eartha is a metaphor for social media. It's more than that, too, but that's the log-line: ...
Monday, August 26, 2024

Portions for Foxes: Ingrid Michaelson

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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  ...
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Saturday, August 24, 2024

Quote of the Week: As True As Anything Else

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How could a superstition be true? Control pondered that later, as he turned his attention to his trip to the border along with a cursory loo...
Friday, August 23, 2024

Authority by Jeff Vandermeer

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Ten years ago, Jeff Vandermeer published a whole trilogy in a year. That's always a dangerous, gutsy move, but I think it worked for him...