I don’t know about y’all, Gentle Readers, but depression sends me to the old bookshelf. And then to the bathtub. And if Your Humble Blogger is looking for a bathtub book, the shelf with all the Bujolds is pretty much…
Your Humble Blogger mentioned The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm a month or so ago in a note about Inkheart. From that point it was only a matter of time before I re-read it. And it’s even better than…
This may be my fourth or fifth time through The Postman, and I still think it’s an excellent book. Sure, there are flaws, but it manages to be engrossing while it brings up issues I find fascinating. It does bring…
I picked up Neal Asher’s The Skinner (NY: Tor 2004) without having heard anything about it whatsoever, which is just as well. A quick google shows that it was well-reviewed, and if I had high expectations, I would have been…
A while ago, Your Humble Blogger saw the two great Hepburn/Grant/Cukor/Stewart/Barry movies, Holiday and The Philadelphia Story. As I am interested in good writing for film and for theater, I thought I’d check out the original plays, and see how…
Your Humble Blogger’s copy of Murder Must Advertise is pretty beat-up. I’ve read it a lot, I guess. It’s fun. I think I like Lord Peter more in this book than in any other, and of course he gets to…
Hey, how come nobody told me that the Miyazaki animated version of Howl’s Moving Castle was completed? I know there’s zero chance that I will see it for years and years, but dang! I am so psyched to see this…
Well, and Your Humble Blogger finally finished The Tidewater Tales. I’m a fan of John Barth, in part because of a lot of the things he does in this book that would annoy anybody who doesn’t like them. In other…
Leigh Richards is, according to the About the Author bit on the back cover of Califia’s Daughters, better known as New York Times bestselling mystery writer Laurie R. King. Now, what’s the point of the pseudonym again? Anyway, I enjoyed…
I’ll say this: when I first found out that Art Spiegelman was doing a weekly broadsheet page for Die Zeit, I tried like heck to find it on-line. It wasn’t there, which was a perfectly reasonable choice for Mr. Spiegelman…