tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071703581738175992024-03-13T13:18:57.938-07:00Brilliant-Looking by CandlelightBook, film, and various reviewsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger516125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807170358173817599.post-5818494058158573822019-12-30T20:08:00.000-08:002019-12-30T20:08:42.798-08:00Books Read in 2019Didn't quite make it to 52 this year.
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Angels of
Music
By Kim
Newman
“Isn’t
Fantômas an imitator
of Erik? He wears evening clothes and a
mask. He strikes from the shadows and
issues press releases, just like Erik’s black-edged notes. Even the name sounds like Phantom.”
“Once
an imitation has been perfected, it makes sense to smash the original.”
***
“Don’t
you know,” saidUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807170358173817599.post-83050282985470853092017-01-15T14:23:00.001-08:002017-01-15T14:24:44.867-08:00Books Read 2016<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Richard: The Young
King to Be - Josephine
Wilkinson
Yet there is
something fascinating about Richard III. He is arguably the most
intriguing character in English history. Few others have possessed
the ability to polarise opinion in the way he does. Few have
engendered so much hatred—or so much devotion—as Richard has (7).
This
interesting, thorough biography of the first half of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807170358173817599.post-45024077395204472014-05-06T14:27:00.001-07:002014-05-06T14:27:53.109-07:00She-Hulk: Laws of Attraction
She-Hulk: Laws of
Attraction is utterly insane.
Having never read any She-Hulk before (frankly, I didn't know she
actually existed until a few weeks ago), my expectations weren't very
high. However, I ended up really loving this volume, which collects
issues #6-#13. Written by Dan Slott, “Laws of Attraction”/ “I
Married a Man-Wolf” somehow, at least in my mind, managed to
reconcile the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807170358173817599.post-83941872054385677992014-05-06T14:23:00.003-07:002014-05-06T14:24:17.477-07:00Batman: Streets of Gotham: Leviathan
After
an age forcing myself to read Marvel titles (and, to my surprise,
actually rather enjoying them), I went back to DC to reassure myself
that there was still good stuff to be had from the imprint. While in
the abstract, I've been 50/50 on Huntress and shakily in favor of the
Dick Grayson/Damian Wayne Batman/Robin, I hadn't really given any of
that much thought. Until now! After a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807170358173817599.post-59728604095627236952014-04-13T12:52:00.001-07:002014-04-13T12:55:00.904-07:00Tribes: The Dog Years
Tribes: The Dog
Years
Written
by Michael Geszel & Peter Spinetta, Art by Inaki Miranda
This
thick wedge of a book (landscape-style orientation, that is, pages
that are wider than they are tall) made an instant, eye-catching
impression. The story is a somewhat familiar one, though given a few
new twists and turns. I found it similar in some ways to the chapter
of “John Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807170358173817599.post-23879440501020549112014-03-26T08:20:00.001-07:002014-03-26T08:21:09.258-07:00The Big-@$$ Graphic Novels Round Up
I've been re-reading all of my favorite graphic novels which I own
and took advantage of some free time recently to read 10 that I had
never read before. Here are some mini-reviews of them dashed off
quickly:
Foiled written by Jane
Yolen with art by Mike Cavallaro
Published by One Second, who were
responsible for one of the favorite graphic novels that I own,
Journey into Mohawk CountryUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807170358173817599.post-56952404191903841772014-03-02T14:07:00.001-08:002014-03-02T14:08:05.120-08:00American Insurgents, American Patriots
American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the
People
“Troubled times demanded commitment” (73).
One of T.H. Breen's objectives in this book was to show how the
commoners of English colonies who rebelled or asserted their
independence, depending on how you look at it, made and carried out
the decisions that were so unprecedented and led to the formation of
the United Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807170358173817599.post-39073607166347124642014-02-16T14:31:00.000-08:002014-02-16T14:31:38.818-08:00The Moonstone
The Moonstone – Wilkie
Collins
I wonder whether the gentlemen who make a business and a living
out of writing books, ever find their own selves getting in the way
of their subjects, like me?
As I said in my review of the
Peter Ackroyd book, I feel a bit false describing myself as a Wilkie
Collins fan, as though I loved The Woman in White and
what short stories of Collins' that I'd read,Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807170358173817599.post-18090053347783753982014-02-16T12:39:00.000-08:002014-02-16T12:39:26.446-08:00Number 5 Cwmdonkin Drive
Number 5 Cwmdonkin Drive by
Liz Wride
This wonderfully fresh one-act
play, as presented as part of On the Edge, Michael Kelligan's
script-held performances of new drama from Welsh and Wales-based
writers, was given a fantastic interpretation by the Welsh Fargo
Stage Company. I saw it (appropriately) at the Dylan Thomas Centre
in Swansea, directed by D.J. Britton. Despite a distinct lack Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807170358173817599.post-42239583105942170332014-02-02T06:14:00.000-08:002014-02-02T06:14:44.555-08:00Beyond Black - Hilary Mantel“Most people don't want to know about the future. They just
want to know about the present. They want to be told they're doing
all right.”
I've reflected a few times since reading Wolf Hall
that Hilary Mantel's back catalogue is of particular interest to me,
with novels about Robespierre, an Irish giant of the 18th
century, and Beyond Black, about
mediums, though it was completely different Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3