Friday, October 31, 2025

Last Kiss: Casual Fridays by John Lustig

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I felt lazy yesterday, and wanted a book I could read quickly and then write something quickly here. I may have been too  lazy, if that'...
Thursday, October 30, 2025

Bech: A Book by John Updike

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This is the first John Updike book I've ever read. (I'm mildly surprised: I would have expected I'd grab a random book of his es...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Drinky Crow Drinks Again by Tony Millionaire

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I've apparently never read a collection of Tony Millionare's Maakies comics. (Back in the early days of this blog, I posted about T...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Smoking Kills by Thijs Desmet

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Comedy duos have to be contrasts - the wacky one and the one that tries to keep it together, for example. The optimist and the pessimist. It...
Monday, October 27, 2025

Better Things: Mercy

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"Better Things" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song I really love, by an artist I haven't featured in the previou...
Saturday, October 25, 2025

Quote of the Week: Household Dangers

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[My mother's] greatest dread, however, was the Victrola - we had a very early one, back in the "Come Josephine in My Flying Machine...
Friday, October 24, 2025

The Seal in the Bedroom & My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber

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I've got the big Library of America Thurber volume, Writings and Drawings  - I find the way LoA books have such obvious, bread-and-butte...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

The Heavy Bright by Cathy Malkasian

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I'll confess up front: I really  don't like it when a work of fiction has a glorious past Golden Age, and explicitly says the point ...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett

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This is the story of Ned Beaumont, a gambler and mob fixer in an unnamed small American city around 1930. Ned Beaumont is always called Ned ...
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse and the Amazing Lost Ocean by Denis-Pierre Filippi and Silvio Camboni

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I don't know that I'm actually looking to seriously read the "Disney Masters" series - see my post on Trapped in the Shado...
Monday, October 20, 2025

Better Things: This Is Old

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"Better Things" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song I really love, by an artist I haven't featured in the previou...
Saturday, October 18, 2025

Quote of the Week: A Detective Ponders

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All I had to go on was a description of the murder weapon, the project he'd been working on all the time we'd spoken, and the possib...
Friday, October 17, 2025

Everything Sucks: Kings of Nothing by Michael Sweater

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Michael Sweater makes comics about stoners and losers, in an art style inspired or influenced by graffiti and tattoos. His work is funny and...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

The Left-Handed Dollar by Loren D. Estleman

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Way back in the early days of this blog, I caught up on Loren D. Estleman's private-eye novels - his main character is Amos Walker, of D...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Bad Break, Chapter #2 by Philippe Riche

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I still don't know what "Bad Break" means, exactly. At times in this book, it seems to be the name of a person, in flashbacks....