Inspired by several gimmicky episodes of SNW in a row, I decided to read some realTrek in an attempt to scrub them from my mind. While I am here, I will probably read the other stories in the volume before returning to Star Wars. If so, I will post in the dedicated "Star Trek Logs" thread.
The second season of Caped Crusader inspired me to re-read What's the Matter With Batman?:An Unauthorized Look Under the Mask of the Caped Crusader by Robin S. Rosenberg (particularly the episodes in which Batman works alongside Harley Quinn). It's a quick read, but I don't have to knock myself out writing about it, because Captain comics already has, three times (in CBG #1694, #1695 and for Scripps. I sent Rosenberg an e-mail after I read her book the first time and she was kind enough to reply.
JD DeLuzio > Jeff of Earth-JSeptember 26, 2026 at 11:34am
I finished an absurdist comic crime novel, Property Values, by Charles Demers. Plot was good and the writing was often very funny; the characters were underdeveloped.
I am slowly making my way (one story at a time) through a collection called Re-Terrify, as a way to get into Halloween and also because it's been in my too-read pile forever and friends of mine have stories in it, and veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery slowly reading Herodotus, who is historically important but not consistently interesting.
I currently find myself stalled in the middle of four books (not including What's the Matter with Batman?). Back in the 20th century, I would usually break up such a logjam by reading a Star Trek book to "prime the pump" as it were, but in the 21st I often read a book written by a stand-up comedian. Yesterday I started reading...
ACTUALLY, NEVERMIND by Taylor Tomlinson
This is a collection of essays by the former host of After Midnight. So far I'm about a quarter of the way through. Fans of her standup know she gets a lot of material from the death of her mother at an early age and her strict religious upbringing. So far the book is more thereputic for her than it is funny for me, but she said one thing early on that most of us here will be able to appreciate. She quoted Luke 12:48 ("To whom much has been given, much will be required") and then adds: "This one is so good Spider-Man stole it from Jesus."
I recently finished reading Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna, edited by Betty De Shong Meador. Enheduanna lived in Mesopotamia (roughly equivalent to present-day Iraq) around 2300 BCE, making her one of the earliest known "literary" writers. It's a period of history that I know little about, but apparently, it was only a few centuries after writing had progressed from simple pictographs to something like a script capable of conveying complex ideas. It was also a period where religion was beginning to change from the idea of the gods existing within nature to being above or beyond nature - "super-natural", if you will. Interesting stuff.
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STAR TREK LOG SIX - "Albatross"
Inspired by several gimmicky episodes of SNW in a row, I decided to read some real Trek in an attempt to scrub them from my mind. While I am here, I will probably read the other stories in the volume before returning to Star Wars. If so, I will post in the dedicated "Star Trek Logs" thread.
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH BATMAN?:
The second season of Caped Crusader inspired me to re-read What's the Matter With Batman?: An Unauthorized Look Under the Mask of the Caped Crusader by Robin S. Rosenberg (particularly the episodes in which Batman works alongside Harley Quinn). It's a quick read, but I don't have to knock myself out writing about it, because Captain comics already has, three times (in CBG #1694, #1695 and for Scripps. I sent Rosenberg an e-mail after I read her book the first time and she was kind enough to reply.
I finished an absurdist comic crime novel, Property Values, by Charles Demers. Plot was good and the writing was often very funny; the characters were underdeveloped.
I am slowly making my way (one story at a time) through a collection called Re-Terrify, as a way to get into Halloween and also because it's been in my too-read pile forever and friends of mine have stories in it, and veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery slowly reading Herodotus, who is historically important but not consistently interesting.
I currently find myself stalled in the middle of four books (not including What's the Matter with Batman?). Back in the 20th century, I would usually break up such a logjam by reading a Star Trek book to "prime the pump" as it were, but in the 21st I often read a book written by a stand-up comedian. Yesterday I started reading...
ACTUALLY, NEVERMIND by Taylor Tomlinson
This is a collection of essays by the former host of After Midnight. So far I'm about a quarter of the way through. Fans of her standup know she gets a lot of material from the death of her mother at an early age and her strict religious upbringing. So far the book is more thereputic for her than it is funny for me, but she said one thing early on that most of us here will be able to appreciate. She quoted Luke 12:48 ("To whom much has been given, much will be required") and then adds: "This one is so good Spider-Man stole it from Jesus."
I'll be stealing that one myself.
I recently finished reading Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna, edited by Betty De Shong Meador. Enheduanna lived in Mesopotamia (roughly equivalent to present-day Iraq) around 2300 BCE, making her one of the earliest known "literary" writers. It's a period of history that I know little about, but apparently, it was only a few centuries after writing had progressed from simple pictographs to something like a script capable of conveying complex ideas. It was also a period where religion was beginning to change from the idea of the gods existing within nature to being above or beyond nature - "super-natural", if you will. Interesting stuff.
Multitude, an alien contact novel by Marie Vibbert. So far, so good.
An interesting take on first contact, which I enjoyed.
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