I suspect that posting here will be sporadic over the next eighteen years or so. Apple-polly-loggies. At the moment, Your Humble Blogger is too sleep-deprived to write anything clever or interesting. I have a few items in the hopper, but…
I like Philip Roth. I mean, not personally, although I don’t really know if he’s as big an asshole as he makes himself out to be. But I tell you, he’s funny. As I’ve surely mentioned here, I love The…
So, tragically, when I at last sat down to read The Iliad, it turned out to be a crap translation by E.V. Rieu, and it was nigh on unreadable. Honestly, I don’t know why I persevered. I suppose it was…
My only complaint about Seven Professors of the Far North is that when you have seven professors, each with a specialty, and they are trapped north of the Arctic, I expect each professor to contribute something from his or her…
My general comment about Robert Silverberg’s stuff is that the world-creation is fantastic, and that the plots are handled moderately well but tend to fall apart before the end, and that the people aren’t terribly memorable. As a result, I…
One thing that is fascinating (to YHB, at least) about the Victorian and Edwardian children’s fantasists is that they are working in a fairy-tale tradition that is very heavily invested in the monarchy, and many of the writers are opposed…
Back a few weeks ago, I was watching a lot of Beckett on Film, and it turns out that I evidently never wrote a note wrapping up the series after finishing (or mostly finishing, as for some reason I am…
I’m going to go ahead and decide that I read enough of The Best Plays Theater Yearbook 2004-2005 to note it in the blog. That is, I read all the parts of the book that are reasonable to read, and…
I was always more of an E. Nesbit kid than a Mary Norton kid. I don’t know why, exactly. I mean, it would be easy to simply claim that E. Nesbit’s books are better than Mary Norton’s, but then I…
May Your Humble Blogger be excused from the game of pretending that World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War is a non-fiction book? I mean, yes, I like that deadpan stuff as much as the next guy,…