Today is Wednesday. New comic book day. Always a cause for celebration. But next Wednesday will be especially so, as it will see the release of the first of the Fantastic Comics #24, the first volume of the Next Issue Project that I gushed about awhile back.
But even better than that, I just the other [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Fuck. Yes.
Posted in Comics, Cool Stuff on November 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Napoleonic Wars AND Dragons?
Posted in Fantasy, Reviews on November 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s always nice when the first line of a book is something like “The deck of the French ship was slippery with blood.” That’s the kind of opening that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside, because it means that action and historical adventure are both to come.
I don’t generally read much fantasy, not [...]
Drool…
Posted in Administrative, Hardboiled, Mystery, Pulp on November 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Bookgasm makes me happy and sad all at once. Happy for the wonders that exist in this world, and sad for the time and money needs that constrain them. A great review: this right here looks like a must-have!
BookBump
Posted in Cool Stuff, Obsessive Compulsive Stuff on November 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So, in the grand tradition of LibraryThing and GoodReads, I’ve just now discovered BookBump. It’s a website for keeping track of one’s books, but with even less of a social networking aspect than any of the others, it’s purely personal, as near as I can tell, and is essentially an iTunes for books. As you [...]
I Am an Idiot
Posted in Administrative, Cool Stuff, Swashbuckling on November 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So, had I been the good little fact checker that I should be, I would have already noticed that the new Michael Chabon book that I mentioned the other day, Gentlemen of the Road, has in fact already finished its serializing in The New York Times Magazine. All things considered, that makes a lot more [...]
Dead Street
Posted in Hard Case Crime, Hardboiled, Mystery, Pulp, Reviews on November 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
To be frank, I wouldn’t have even writen a review of Mickey Spillane’s Dead Street if I hadn’t liked the book. I have no desire to spit on the fairly recent grave of one of the most popular and influential mystery writers of all time.
Truth be told, I’d never read any Spillane before Dead Street. [...]
Jews With Swords
Posted in Administrative, Cool Stuff, Swashbuckling on November 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Michael Chabon has clearly stolen my idea… and I discover this fact on my birthday, no less!
Ok, no he hasn’t, and in fact I’m rather elated at the prospect of Gentlemen of the Road, his newest novel. (Although yes, it is really my birthday today. Rejoice.)
Essentially, Chabon has decided to take his “write about things [...]
…replied Aramis, raising his hat with one hand, and drawing his sword with the other.
Wherein a fledgling author looks at literary (and a smidge of cinematic) fiction, mostly of the adventurous variety, accompanied by a smattering of musings on his own burgeoning body of work--but not so much as to be overwhelming, or more self-indulgent than the average blog.
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