I did something last night that I very rarely do: I gave up on a book. Not even a fourth of the way in, but I can’t take it any more and it is going back to the library later today. Unfinished. Unloved. I’m disappointed. The book is Patricia Cornwell’s Book of the Dead and …
Category Archive: books
Jan 23
1602(s) and Upcoming Reads
I finished Gaiman’s “Marvel 1602“ a couple days ago. I freaking loved it — and I realize from just a bit of looking around that this book really polarized folks. Apparently you either love it or hate it. I’m in the first camp on it. Oh sure, I thought some stuff was a bit hokey …
Jan 20
Sandman and Sin City
Continuing my quest to read the “classic” graphic novels, I read “The Sandman Preludes & Nocturnes” and Sin City’s: “The Hard Goodbye” this week. Two very different examples of the genre, but I enjoyed both. First I tackled Sandman. Now, overall I really enjoyed the story line that “Preludes & Nocturnes” contains. However, I have …
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