Thursday, October 31, 2024

Barbarella, Book 2: The Wrath of the Minute-Eater by Jean-Claude Forest

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I like to center the positive, as much as I can, so I'll start out by saying: this book has a single, consistent plot throughout, and is...
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

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I'm usually not one for the positive, heartwarming books, so I apologize if I start taking random unfair potshots at this one. It is pos...
Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Spy Superb by Matt Kindt

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Matt Kindt has been making stories about spies since the beginning of his career - but he's found a new take this time. Spy Superb  has ...
Monday, October 28, 2024

Portions for Foxes: Laura Stevenson and the Cans

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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, October 27, 2024

Reviewing the Mail: Week of October 26, 2024

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I have one book this week: I bought it from That Internet Retailer soon after I hit the end of the previous Jack Vance omnibus I was working...
Saturday, October 26, 2024

Quote of the Week, Supplemental: Character-Building

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Even among the summer people there are tensions. When you put enough affluent white people into a closed system, they will turn on each othe...

Quote of the Week: Inevitabilities

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Her second favorite game is Go. She loves the feel of the stones. Each time she picks one up, she lets her fingers tell her how much has wor...
Friday, October 25, 2024

Vacationland by John Hodgman

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I have to start off this time by talking about book packaging. The point of a book's outsides - title, cover art, any descriptions or qu...
Thursday, October 24, 2024

Usagi Yojimbo, Book 4: The Dragon Bellow Conspiracy by Stan Sakai

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The fourth collection of Stan Sakai's long-running Usagi Yojimbo  series collects a long - some would say "epic" - storyline t...
Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Fly By Night by Tara O'Connor

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Do you ever find yourself complaining about the genre premises of a work? It's not helpful, I can tell you. And it can waste a bunch of ...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link

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Kelly Link is one of the best writers of our time: full stop. I can say more - I will  say more - but I'll start with that bedrock. She...
Monday, October 21, 2024

Portions for Foxes: Ellen Starski

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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, October 19, 2024

Quote of the Week, Supplemental: I Must Be TOO SMART To Be a Novelist!

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The way I see it, people with brilliant minds are not particularly well suited to writing novels. Of course some degree of intelligence and ...

Quote of the Week: Audience Support

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Watching a fight on television has always seemed to me a poor substitute for being there. For one thing, you can't tell the fighters wha...
Friday, October 18, 2024

Secret Passages: 1985-1986 by Axelle Lenoir

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I've always liked surprises in my reading - picking up a book with very little idea of what will be in it, and seeing where it goes. Tha...