Your Humble Blogger doesn’t claim to have read the entirety of The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases (San Francisco: Night Shade Books 2003), but it isn’t that sort of book. It is, however, very funny…
If Your Humble Blogger hadn’t been alerted to a question about whether Beryl Markham actually wrote it, the experience of West with the Night, (San Francisco: North Point Press 1983) might have been different. As it was, I found much…
Your Humble Blogger was enjoying re-reading the K’ton’ton stories, so it was an obvious next step to check the library catalogue for other books by Sadie Rose Weilerstein. I’m glad I did, as I found Ten and a Kid (Philadelphia:…
I’m a fan of Thornton Wilder for some reason. I adore The Skin of Our Teeth, despite how totally dated it feels. I can stand Our Town, despite its iconage. And I really like The Ides of March (New York:…
How many times has Your Humble Blogger read The Hobbit (New York: Ballantine 1973)? How many roses are sprinkled with dew? I read it the first time in the day or two before the Rankin/Bass version was televised, so I…
OK, so Your Humble Blogger read Trading Spaces: Color! (Des Moines: Meredith Books 2003) and Trading Spaces: Make It Yours! (Des Moines: Meredith Books 2003). Wanna make something of it? [my Best Reader: I could make a slipcover, or a…
Your Humble Blogger was sufficiently inspired by the Ian Frazier piece in The Best American Essays 2003 to pick up Dating Your Mom (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1986) at the library. This was actually a mistake; his stuff…
Your Humble Blogger heard good things about Inkheart, and the first chapter was terrific, so it’ll be our new Bedtime Book. Which means we won’t even start it for months, and won’t finish it for a while after that. In…
Your Humble Blogger has already mentioned The Best American Essays 2003, which I have now finished. It’s hard to do a report on two dozen essays, most of which have tremendous strengths and flaws. Was the shortest essay the best?…
Gentle Readers, y’all are probably aware that I’m fond of the Vorkosigan books by Lois McMaster Bujold. My most recent re-read is Memory (Riverdale: Baen 1997). It’s terrific (tho’ my Best Reader discovered an odd inconsistency). The most impressive thing,…