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"I've just finished the recent Lollapalooza book, a history of the festival in the 1990s that consists heavily of a zillion interviews cut and pasted into a comparatively coherent narrative. It's a a fascinating and detailed piece of the recent past,…"
"I recently finished reading Ballyhoo!: The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling, by Jon Langmead. It's an interesting look at the earliest days of professional wrestling in the U.S., from its earliest days as a…"
"THE GOOD BOOK: After (or perhaps "continuing") my Bible kick, my reading could have taken one of three possible tacks. After stepping back for a while to consider which direction I would take, I decided to go with The Good Book (2011), which is a…"
"The Last Real World Champion: The Legacy of "Nature Boy" Ric Flair, by Tim Hornbaker. It's an oiinteresting book, and gives a thoroguh of Flair's career and personal life. If there's a flaw, it's that Hornbaker comes across as a Flair nfan, and…"
"i'm making a fitful stab at reducing the To Be Read stack of comics in my bedroom (which actually comprises more issues than the inventory of some comics shops I've visited).
One four-issue miniseries I just read is Battleworld: Thors, a spinoff of…"
One four-issue miniseries I just read is Battleworld: Thors, a spinoff of…"
"Stitches, by Hirokatsu Kihara, with illustrations by Junji Ito. Nine ostensibly true short stories (they read more like urban legends) of encounters with the supernatural by Kihara, plus a short manga by Ito adapting another of Kihara's stories. …"
"Uncanny: The Origins of Fear, by Junji Ito. Legendary artist Ito describes how he became a horror manga artist, and gives his thought on how to create horror manga. Interesting stuff, especially if you're a big Ito fan, which I am."
"GOD IS DISAPPOINTED IN YOU: Still on my "Bible" kick, I followed The Gospel According to Peanuts and The Uncensored Bible up with God is Disappointed in You by Mark Russell. It has been described as "a frequently hilarious, often shocking, but…"
"I'm two-thirds through Girlfriend in a Coma. I always feel late to the party reading Douglas Coupland now. It's well-written, though I'm not sure how I feel about the direction the book has taken at this point.
Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods…"
Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods…"
"I just finished reading Butter by Asako Yuzuki (translated by Polly Barton). The novel was first published in Japan in 2017. I'd not heard of Yuzuki, but apparently, she's reasonably well-known in Japan, having won prizes for her writing and had her…"
"THE UNCENSORED BIBLE: The Bawdy and Naughty Bits of the Good Book: I followed The Gospel According to Peanuts up with The Uncensored Bible (as recommended to me by our own ClarkKent_DC). It is quite similar in tone to God is Disappointed in You by…"
"Reading Chris Hadfield's The Apollo Murders. It's a slow burn... I'm a little under halfway through and it's really picking up. Good twist a little while after the launch. I have to assume he has the technical details and the feel of spaceflight…"
"The Man Who presumed: A Biography of Henry M Stanley by Byron Farwell. Less than 100 pages in, and I find this fascinating. I don't even remember how I got turned on to this book, but I got it for Christmas. Even if the rest of it sucks, it is worth…"
"MISSION TO HORATIUS:
Continuing my journey through children's literature of a bygone era, I read Mission to Hoatius, a YA Star Trek tie-in from 1967 which has the distinction of being the very fist Star Trek prose book to see print. This HC…"
Continuing my journey through children's literature of a bygone era, I read Mission to Hoatius, a YA Star Trek tie-in from 1967 which has the distinction of being the very fist Star Trek prose book to see print. This HC…"
"SPACE PIRATE:
I wasn't going to do this, but I'm going to post a few excerpts from Space Pirate, one of a series of books by Henry Bamman, William Odell and Robert Whitehead I read between the second and fifth grades. I remember the covers of these…"
I wasn't going to do this, but I'm going to post a few excerpts from Space Pirate, one of a series of books by Henry Bamman, William Odell and Robert Whitehead I read between the second and fifth grades. I remember the covers of these…"
"I've been listening to audiobooks as I've gone out on my walks... and now that my foot's mostly better, I'm able to take those walks again. I'm currently listening to All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders, and it's ridiculously good. I'd…"
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