Thursday, March 05, 2026

Man's Best by Pornsak Pichetshote, Jesse Lonergan, and Jeff Powell

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If I were cynical - and I am , a lot of the time - I'd think of this book as " We 3 , but with a happy ending!" or maybe, more...
Wednesday, March 04, 2026

The Incal, Vol.3: What Lies Beneath by Alexandro Jodorowosky & Mœbius

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The Incal series is set in a space-opera universe, and I don't think we get a good sense of how it all works - like most space opera, th...
Tuesday, March 03, 2026

Mystery Science Theater 3000: A Cultural History by Matt Foy and Christopher J. Olson

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For whatever reason, I've been reading books about the Mystery Science Theater 3000  TV show this past year - Frank Conniff's movie-...
Monday, March 02, 2026

All of This and Nothing: Dr. Bill

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"All of This and Nothing" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song I really love, by an artist I haven't featured in t...
Sunday, March 01, 2026

Reviewing the Mail: Week of February 28, 2026

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I got one book from the library this week, and, continuing the theme from last week, it is physically larger than I expected. I'm gettin...
Saturday, February 28, 2026

Quote of the Week: Unexpected Surprises in One's Domicile

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It is not easy to state offhand what is the last thing a young man starting out in life would wish to find on the premises of the furnished ...
Friday, February 27, 2026

The Alliance of the Curious, #1: Sapiens by Philippe Riche

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French creator Philippe Riche had a two-part series called Bad Break  - as far as I can tell, it came out in France close to twenty years ag...
Thursday, February 26, 2026

Pigs Have Wings by P.G. Wodehouse

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As the back-cover copy leads off by sublimely noting, it is pig-stealing time in Shropshire. This is not the longest or the most complex of ...
Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Nocturnos by Laura Pérez

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I like to read comics - or graphic works, however you label them - that work largely visually, that imply more than they say, that aren'...
Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Bridge Planet Nine by Jared Throne

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I came into this book with almost no expectations, and was happily surprised - it's a taut, smartly-paced crime thriller in a lived-in S...
Monday, February 23, 2026

All of This and Nothing: Such Great Heights

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"All of This and Nothing" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song I really love, by an artist I haven't featured in t...
Sunday, February 22, 2026

Reviewing the Mail: Week of February 21, 2026

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I got three books from the library this week - along with the movie Caddyshack , for the weekly watch-with-my-kids Wednesday [1] - and all o...
Saturday, February 21, 2026

Quote of the Week: Other Lives

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The other part of me wanted to get out and stay out, but this was the part I never listened to. Because if I ever had I would have stayed in...
Friday, February 20, 2026

The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

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This is the big one; if you read only one Raymond Chandler novel, it should be The Long Goodbye . It's almost twice the length of his ea...
Thursday, February 19, 2026

Usasgi Yojimbo, Book 9: Daisho by Stan Sakai

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As I've warned before, my posts about series tend to get shorter and more perfunctory as I have less and less to say. I may end up rambl...