9
Nov
2010
The Sandman: Brief Lives by Neil Gaiman
Wow. This volume of The Sandman is so full of awesomeness. It has got to me my favorite of the series so far.
28
Oct
2010
Angel: After the Fall Vol. 2 (First Night) by Joss Whedon and Brian Lynch
Usually, I’m all for prequels. But not when they come in the second installment of a series. So, the proper order to read the After the Fall books in might actually be the following:
26
Oct
2010
The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter
I was quite disappointed when I discovered that this book is titled The Financial Lives of the Poets (emphasis mine, obvs) rather than just The Financial Lives of Poets. So that’s my first objection.
23
Oct
2010
Fables vol 8: Wolves
Ah Bigsby. You are big and you are a wolf. Ah Mowgli. You are not so big and not really a wolf. But you are very wolflike. And Bigsby? Mowgli is going to find you.
22
Oct
2010
The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde, you sly fucking bastard, sneaking your own book into the well of lost plots. I was wondering what you were up to with those striking nursery rhyme characters.
18
Oct
2010
Buffy: Wolves at the Gate by Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard
I don’t remember Dracula having been this funny. Oh, sure, I remember Xander being this funny. But Dracula was a little less irreverent as I recall. I will have to re-watch that one.
28
Sep
2010
I’d Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman
The last thing Eliza wants is to hear from the man that kidnapped her for a week when she was a teenager. But that’s exactly what happens when Walter sees her picture in a magazine (because, you know, he’d know her anywhere) and decides to contact her from death row.
9
Sep
2010
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
The Bean Trees was Barbara Kingsolver’s debut novel, back in the ’80’s. One chapter in, and you can already see the foreshadows of the voices she would create over the next few decades.
5
Sep
2010
Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
If I have anything to complain about this book, it’s that it’s too short. We’re transported into the world of Marjane Satrapi’s family for an afternoon, but left wanting more.
17
Aug
2010
Ruby and the Stone Age Diet by Martin Millar
Ruby and the Stone Age Diet was one of Martin Millar’s first books. It came out something like 20 years ago (indeed, a blurb from Neil Gaiman says that he’s been reading Millar for 20 years) in the U.K., but was only just published earlier this year in the U.S. by Soft Skull Press.
