Category: Book Report

See, I’m just cranky. You know how, when I report on having read a book, instead of linking to an evil on-line retailer, or even a less evil (but less widely used) on-line retailer, I go to the effort of…

Your Humble Blogger is a huge fan of James Morrow. As it happens, I was in Salem, Mass., in fact at the House of Seven Betty Grables, well, in the gift shop thereof, and lo! there was The Last Witchfinder….

I’ve read some of the later Will Eisner stuff, and I’ve liked it and all, but it hasn’t knocked me out. So when I saw The Best of The Spirit at the library, I picked it up without much anticipation….

I was, until a few weeks ago, entirely unaware that Mordechai Richler had written anything for children whatsoever. It turns out that not only did he write Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang but other books about Jacob Two Two,…

I have no idea what to say about Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die! No, it’s not about Sacco and Vanzetti. Or at least, it’s not about that Sacco and Vanzetti. Except that it is. Sort of. In a way. That…

Has YHB ever mentioned how wonderful library book sales are? No? Well, one of the many wonderful things about library book sales is very similar to one of the wonderful things about libraries, that is, one can take a risk…

Well, and I have mentioned that More All-of-a-Kind Family is a bit of a disappointment. I’ve slowed down on grabbing the rest of them. I’m still likely to read them over the course of the year, but it’ll take some…

Speaking of genre fights, is A Dirty Job generally considered to be a fantasy novel? I mean, it is a fantasy novel, but is it in the genre? By the way, talking about YHB’s reaction to this book entails talking…

OK, here’s the thing: I’ve read Justice Hall four or five times by now, and this last time through, like the previous time and I think the time before that, I absolutely could not remember who the Bad Guy was….

Do you ever wonder about Monty Python and Beyond the Fringe? The Python boys, successful in a couple of review-shows, wound up together working on a television show that was insanely influential, made a couple of tremendous movies, and then…