One thing about airplane travel, at least for YHB, is how necessary it is to have the right book. Not a great book. A competent book, that’s important. A book that’s too annoying would make the ride less pleasant, so…
Dang. I wish I’d jotted down the table of contents for Over the Rainbow: Tales of Fantasy and Imagination (London: Octopus 1983). It had H.G. Wells’ “The Truth about Pyecraft”, I know, and a bit out of the Oz books…
Speaking of airplane reading, The Wolves of Savernake, by Edward Marston (New York: Fawcett 1995) is pretty much just that. It read like a knock-off of the Brother Cadfael books. In other words, pleasantly written, unoriginal, unmemorable, formulaic, and reasonably…
YHB happened to have extra time on his hands, and was near a copy of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, so add another book to the list. I don’t particularly like it; it seems to be, well, a bad…
Your Humble Reader had one of those disorienting moments recently, when a thing thought to be true turns out not to be true. I had always thought that I liked E.B. White’s Stuart Little more than Charlotte’s Web, but it…
It had been some years since Your Humble Blogger had read 1984 (New York: Penguin I-Don’t-Have-It-with-me), and the references to it were coming thick and fast, and there was the book, so there it was. Many people, particularly on the…
Your Humble Blogger is in a hurry, but there’s certainly time to note the enjoyment of Louise Marley’s fine book The Maquisarde (New York: Ace 2002). I had read The Glass Harmonica, and more or less liked it, but this…
A better choice for the abortive TohuBohu book club would have been Better Together: Restoring the American Community, by Robert D. Putnam and Lewis M. Feldstein, with Don Cohen (the latter, I’m guessing, actually wrote most of the words in…
YHB had seen the film of The Magic Christian (New York: Bantam 1970) in the days of long-ago youth, but this is the first time I’ve read the Terry Southern book. It’s, um, brilliant? I don’t really know. Like the…
Your Humble Blogger recently recommended “The House on Turk Street” and “The Girl with the Silver Eyes” to an acquaintance, and then realized I haven’t re-read them for years. So, out came my copy of The Continental Op, and that…