Archive for Reviews
My pick-a-random-unread-book system recently picked Joanna Russ’s reviews-and-essays collection The Country You Have Never Seen. I’m not normally a big reader of reviews—I don’t hate them, they’re just not something I tend to be super into. But in this case, I laughed out loud half a dozen times in the first couple dozen pages. Partly […]
I saw 59 movies in 2017, of which only about half a dozen were rewatches of movies I'd seen before....
In the past couple years, there've been about three times when I've had occasion to suggest starting points for reading...
Kam and I saw the movie Arrival on Sunday evening. It was as good as everyone's been saying. I had...
I'm finally reading Judith Merril's groundbreaking 1968 anthology England Swings SF. Here are some thoughts. i probably ought to...
I recently read Voice, the latest completed volume of Carla Speed McNeil's excellent sf comic book Finder. This storyline is...
In 2015, I watched 63 movies, down from 100+ in 2014. I came very close to completing my rewatching-all-my-old-favorites project,...
A few weeks ago, I decided to take a look at the book of The Martian. I hadn't had much...
A friend asked this morning what the deal is with this Hamilton thing. Here's what I posted in response: It's...
A few assorted life updates: My knee injury has continued to heal, but still very slowly. But at least the...
I saw Terminator Genisys last night. Fortunately, Karen prepped me for it ahead of time, so I thought I'd pass...
My first encounter with Ursula K. Le Guin's short YA novel Very Far Away from Anywhere Else was in college. My...