Friday, July 31, 2026

Murder Book by Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell

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Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell has one of those modern gig-style careers where she does multiple things (I presume to get something vaguely like...
Thursday, July 30, 2026

Platform Decay by Martha Wells

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I'm not going to list all of them, or explain which are novellas (the first few, mostly) and which are novels (short novels, mostly the ...
Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Mickey Mouse Versus the Mouseton Society of Evil by Nicolas Pothier & Johan Pilet

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I am no expert on Euro Disney comics. Fantagraphics has been reprinting what they say are the best of that large universe - and I have no re...
Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Elric: The Weird of the White Wolf by Roy Thomas, Michael T. Gilbert, P. Craig Russell & George Freeman

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I'll start with the explanation/disclaimer: this is the comics adaptation, part of a long sequence of comics adapting what was at that p...
Monday, July 27, 2026

All of This and Nothing: Cathedral

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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, July 26, 2026

Reviewing the Mail: Week of July 25, 2026

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There's been an impressive flow of new books coming in, so I'm running these posts further out in the future than perhaps the title ...
Saturday, July 25, 2026

Quote of the Week: Someone That I Used to Know

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It's always embarrassing to run unexpectedly into a girl you used to be engaged to. I mean, you don't quite know how to comport your...
Friday, July 24, 2026

Foundling Fathers by Meg Elison

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They say that one of the best compliments you can give to a book is the wish that it was longer. Well, I think Foundling Fathers  is a great...
Thursday, July 23, 2026

Drew Friedman's Chosen People

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Can reading a book be an experiment? I thought of this one that way, but that may just be me being precious about something minor. I've ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Blacksad, Vol. 2: Arctic Nation by Juan Díaz Canales & Juanjo Guarnido

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I don't want to say that creators can't write about whatever they want to write about. That's not my point at all. But if they w...
Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Laughing Gas by P.G. Wodehouse

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I don't like to make sweeping statements about writers with around a hundred published books, since there's likely to be some oddbal...
Monday, July 20, 2026

All of This and Nothing: Cage in a Cave

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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, July 19, 2026

Reviewing the Mail: Week of July 18, 2026

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This is slightly cheating: I'm writing this the morning of Friday, July 10, and the three books below all arrived earlier this  week. Bu...
Saturday, July 18, 2026

Quote of the Week: Natural Mechanisms

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The lawyer talked. There are more millionaires in this country than in any other, he said, and at the same time more robbers and killers. Th...
Friday, July 17, 2026

Daredevil: Born Again by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli

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I'm sure I've re-read this story since 1986. You can't prove it from this blog, though. And my copy of  the trade paperback is t...
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