OK, so Your Humble Blogger is noting every book read this year, right? The point of the exercise is to track what I read, not to have intelligent or witty things to say about each one. Neil Gaiman, The Sandman:…
The problem with books is that there are lots of ways to ruin them. I mean, say, for instance, you have a really good idea for a caper novel. José Latour clearly did. I mean, October 1958, Havana, the government…
Your Humble Blogger’s local library has a surprisingly good collection of graphic novels and such. Although the cover of Doug TenNapel’s Creature Tech (Marietta: Top Shelf 2002) wasn’t all that enticing, a quick flip through the pages showed a pretty…
Your Humble Blogger came across Anita Diamant when looking for info about my Perfect Non-reader’s naming ceremony. The New Jewish Baby Book was pretty clearly the best of breed, and was written in the sort of voice that made me…
Your Humble Blogger has been getting behind in his Book Reports (and further behind in other blogging, but this note is a book report). I’m trying to make sure I don’t miss anything. One of the more missable books was…
So, Your Humble Blogger mentioned comfort books a while back, so perhaps inevitably, Mary Renault’s The Mask of Apollo (New York: Pantheon 1966) got picked up again. It’s getting pretty thumbed-through by now; I don’t know if this is the…
Your Humble Blogger picked up Bandbox (New York: Pantheon 2004) after hearing Thomas Mallon on NPR. It was, well, OK. It had a bit of that thing that annoys me in historical novels, when Historical Figures are worked in to…
The problem with keeping a public log of absolutely everything Your Humble Blogger reads, is that I am a trifle embarrassed by some of it. Now, I haven’t read any entire books of pornography this year, so I’m off the…
Not much to say about Your Humble Blogger’s umpty-eleventh reread of Dick Francis’ Wild Horses (New York: Jove 1995). Redintegro Iraq,-Vardibidian….
Your Humble Blogger was familiar with Frank Muir from the radio shows My Word! and particularly My Music. It was from listening to My Music, in fact, that I developed my concept of the Maximum Fun Quotient. Paraphrased bit I…