Sunday, October 04, 2026

Books Read: September 2026

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As I always say: this is mostly an index, and mostly for me. But here's what I read last month: Ben Passmore, Black Arms to Hold You Up ...

Antick Musings Is Old Enough to Drink Today!

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As of today, Antick Musings  is twenty-one years old. That may seem impressive, but I have two children older than that. I also tend to see ...
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Saturday, October 03, 2026

Quote of the Week: Another Morning

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I thought about sitting up. The various governing bodies in my mind all agreed that this would be a good thing, but there were disputes over...
Friday, October 02, 2026

Trudeau & Doonesbury: A Biography by Joshua Kendall

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I was an avid Doonesbury  reader in my youth; I assembled all of the books eventually (up to about 2009, though I might have missed the rare...
Thursday, October 01, 2026

Cosmonauts of the Future, Vol. 3: Resurrection by Lewis Trondheim & Manu Larcenet

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On this side of the Atlantic, they all hit at once: in 2018, Europe Comics published (digitally) translations of the three Cosmonauts of the...
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

The Kingdom, Vol.1: Anne by Benoit Feroumont

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I was sure this book was different , but I didn't know how much or in what ways. It looked like it might be for younger readers, which w...
Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Blonde Faith by Walter Mosley

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I used to read Walter Mosley books regularly - at least the Easy Rawlins series, which I devoured in the '90s. But first kids, then my e...
Monday, September 28, 2026

All of This and Nothing: Songs That No One Will Hear

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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, September 27, 2026

Reviewing the Mail: Week of September 26, 2026

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Three books for this week - one I bought myself (trying to use an old gift card that didn't go through in the end, curse the luck) and t...
Saturday, September 26, 2026

Quote of the Week: A Relapse of Poetry

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I have generally found, as I have gone around the world, that people are tolerant and ready to forgive, and in our little community it was n...
Friday, September 25, 2026

Leonardo the Genius (Vol. 1) by Bob De Groot & Turk

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The credit on the book just says "De Groot and Turk," but other official descriptions include De Groot's first name. I'd h...
Thursday, September 24, 2026

Glorious Summers, Vol. 3: Little Miss Esterel by Zidrou & Jordi Lafebre

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This is not my  nostalgia. But, reading this book, I was reminded that the whole series is about the nostalgia of people around my age and t...
Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Into the Bewilderness by Gus Gordon

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There are some signals that a book is actually for kids. Sometimes they're obvious: the shelf it sits on in a store or library, a big st...
Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Nothing Serious by P.G. Wodehouse

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I am on a multi-year, vaguely serious plan to read "all" of P.G. Wodehouse, in the lovely little Overlook hardcovers. He wrote aro...
Monday, September 21, 2026

All of This and Nothing: I Can See Clearly Now

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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...