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Choose This Catastrophe!
So on Friday, this showed up: This is mine and Michael's first full-length novel, and it is pretty exciting. You should go buy a copy. I just finished it this morning, and I was surprisingly pleased...
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Reading Roundup Wrapup: August 2011
Pick of the month:Feed by M. T. Anderson. Feed is great, but it was a reread, so I kinda wanted to pick something else this month. But though I read some good stuff (The Furies, The Little Endless...
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Faster than a DC Bullet #33: The Sandman Spin-Offs (Part V)
There's plenty more spin-offs of The Sandman to come, but I've read fourteen in a row now, and that's enough for anyone, so it's two more and then a break. Both of these works take us into the lighter...
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Audio Reviews: Animal; Ghost Light; Recorded Time and other stories
I fell a little behind on these, mostly because seven-hour audiobooks turn out to take quite a while when you listen to stories in fifteen-minute spurts while cooking, cleaning, or walking to the...
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Reading Roundup: The Inspector Lynley Mysteries by Elizabeth George, Books 9-11
Years ago I read the first eight Inspector Lynley novels, about an aristocratic detective at Scotland Yard and his working-class partner. I used to read one or two every six months or so, but fell out...
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Audio Reviews: Buried Secrets; The Rocket Men; Earth Aid
I've squeezed in a bit more listening of late, and a bit more reviews-- on the other hand I've fallen behind on book reviews since posting them onto LiveJournal is an awful pain. This simple post is...
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Reading Roundup Wrapup: September 2011
Pick of the month:Fade In by Michael Piller. It's sort of like the Star Trekversion of Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale. Who knew that the making of a problematic film could be so interesting?All books...
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Reading Roundup: The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand RussellMineola: Dover, 1992 (1912). Trade paperback, 121 pages. New bookstore purchase (online), February 2010.Bertrand Russell sets out to explain why philosophy...
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Faster than a DC Bullet #34: Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane (Part I)
I've read a lot of DC series so far in Faster than a DC Bullet, and not all of them were even DC universe: Green Arrow, The Sandman, Gotham Central, Y: The Last Man... But something I haven't done yet...
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Audio Reviews: The Last of Sarah Jane Smith
A momentary lull in my acquisition of new audio dramas (waiting for that new Paul McGann season with companion Mary Shelley!) has let me catch up on some old stuff: the last three installments in...
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Reading Roundup: Nat Tate: An American Artist, 1928-1960 by William Boyd
Nat Tate: An American Artist, 1928-1960 by William BoydNew York:Bloomsbury, 2011 (1998). Trade paperback, 67 pages. Complimentary publisher copy (EarlyReviewer), July 2011.So this book was originally...
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Reading Roundup: Victorian Controversies, 1837-50
This semester, I'm taking a class called "Victorian Controversies," where we're reading works of Victorian fiction alongside primary and secondary sources that relate to them: stuff about the Poor Law...
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Reading Roundup Wrapup: October 2011
Pick of the month:The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. I don't think it's as good as The Woman in White (the ostensible leads are dead boring), but it's still Wilkie Collins.All books read:1. "These Sad...
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Reading Roundup: A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories by Robin McKinley
A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories by Robin McKinleyNew York: Greenwillow, 1994 (1982-94). Hardcover, 195 pages. Borrowed from the library (ILL).Last summer I read Robin McKinley's two novels of...
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Reading Roundup: Sapphire and Steel by P. J. Hammond
Sapphire and Steel by P. J. HammondLondon: Virgin, 1992 (1979). Mass market paperback, 135 pages. Used bookstore purchase (online), October 2010.The spookiness of Sapphire & Steel came from the...
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Faster than a DC Bullet #35: Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane (Part II)
I wrap up my quick sidetrip into the Marvel universe with not just the last two volumes of Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane, but a sidesidetrip as well; shortly before the Mary Jane series, Marvel dabbled...
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Reading Roundup: Fade In: From Idea to Final Draft by Michael Piller
Fade In: From Idea to Final Draft: The Writing of Star Trek: Insurrection by Michael PillerN.p.: TrekCore, 2010. Word document, 271 pages. Downloaded from TrekCore.This is, as far as I know, one of...
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Reading Roundup: The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
This past spring, I taught my students Paul Auster's "City of Glass" (I forced them to apply Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics to it, defying all reason), instilling in me a desire to 1) reread the...
View ArticleM. T. Anderson and Reading Widely: Half of a Manifesto, Maybe
So last night, I saw one of my favorite authors, M. T. Anderson, speak at Eastern Connecticut State University here in Willimantic. Anderson is a children's/YA writer, but he's absolutely one of my...
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Reading Roundup Wrapup: November 2011
Pick of the month:Daniel Deronda by George Eliot. Not as good as Adam Bede, but that just means it's not in the Top Ten of books written in English. (What are the other nine? Good question.) A Vision...
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The month of December saw me get the time to write some new reviews for Science's Less Accurate Grandmother, thanks to the end of the semester:Comic books:The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer,...
View ArticleReading Roundup Update: January 2012
Another month, another set of reviews published:Doctor Who:Professor Bernice Summerfield II: A Life of Surprises edited by Paul CornellDoctor Who: Short Trips #22: The Ghosts of Christmas edited by...
View ArticleReading Roundup Update: February 2012
Despite it being a short, busy month, I got a fair few reviews written:19th-century literature:Mary Barton by Elizabeth GaskellWessex Tales: That Is to Say, The Three Strangers, A Tradition of Eighteen...
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A Book!
It got lost somewhere across the Atlantic and had to be resent, but here it is at last:Yup, it's Wildthyme in Purple, which features my at-long-last contribution to Obverse Books, with "Frank Reade...
View ArticleReading Roundup Update: March 2012
I know, I know. No life blogging, but many reviews-- and many more queued up so that I can get through the rest of the semester with ease:DC Comics:Lucifer: Crux by Mike CareyLucifer: Morningstar by...
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