Let’s look at some pretty book covers, shall we?
Edo’s September post mentioning Lin Carter made me think, as talking about Carter often does, of his work editing Ballantine Books’ Adult Fantasy series back in the 1970s. Ian and …
Category: Books
What I bought, read, or otherwise consumed – August 2019
Yes, it’s a bit late. So don’t wait to read it!
Romancing the planet(s)
A few years ago, my interest in the planetary romance genre was reignited, and I decided to read several classic series in this genre for the first time – and tell everybody what I thought about them.
Incarnation or ideal? Which do I love?
A passing comment in the recent round table about geek stuff got me thinking about why I keep reading Batman, even though the stories in the New 52 suck. I’ve …
What a comic geek isn’t allowed to think
There are some things you’re just not allowed to think if you’re a comic book geek. Here are some of the ones I think.
Through the Looking Glass
Thinking about Jim’s column about generations and defining events, and measuring my own life experience against it, I realized that almost all of my memories that I think of as ‘defining events’ are about books, comics, and most especially, book STORES. There was one bookstore in particular… sadly, long gone now, but I’ve never forgotten it.
