What I bought, read, or otherwise consumed – February 2018
Yes, it’s that time again, when I review a bunch of trades and other stuff I might have gotten around to this month. Let’s boogie!
Category: Books
Backroads Bookscouting: A Few Days in the Willamette Valley, Part Two
Wrapping up the Oregon trip, in which we discover new favorite bookstores and stumble upon rarities in the oddest places. Also, cats.
Backroads Bookscouting: A Couple of Days In the Willamette Valley, Part One
In which we investigate various thrift stores and bookshops in the Willamette Valley along the old Highway 99E in Oregon, and come up with some cool stuff.
Hard Cases and Other Mysterious Volumes
I’ve been getting a lot of nifty mysteries and related items in here lately. Here’s a quick rundown.
The Unsung – Edward Whittemore’s ‘Jerusalem Quartet’
The Unsung examines works of popular culture that are critically acclaimed but not popular, popular but not critically acclaimed, or neither. Today I’m writing about Edward Whittemore’s four novels about the Middle East, so let’s go!
Doc Savage vs. the Depression
Doc Savage didn’t just fight evil. Living in the Depression, he fought suffering.
Collins’ Comics Whodunits
Among his many, many books, prolific crime writer Max Allan Collins wrote a trilogy of delightful murder mysteries set in the world of newspaper strips and comic books in the late 1940s and early 1950s.