Books
I'm going to spend the evening reading and go to bed early (fun things to do tomorrow if I only have the energy for them), but I wanted to make a note of the three books I picked up at Borders tonight:
40: A Doonesbury Retrospective by G.B. Trudeau. Couldn't really afford this massive slipcased compendium, but I somehow lost my old Doonesbury trade paperbacks about twenty years ago and have missed them ever since; they, the Beatles, and Harlan Ellison were a trio of huge formative influences on my commie-pinko-pervo underground-newspaper-publishing non-Pledge-of-Allegiance-saying teenage self. I've already found several strips I remember fondly, and puzzled anew over why the young Trudeau used to leave out his characters' mouths so often. Hey, at least I had my Borders reward card (40% off).
Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych ER by Julie Holland, M.D. This is the kind of book -- anecdotes by ER doctors, forensic examiners, EMT workers, brain surgeons, and such -- I can snarf down faster than any other. They're like candy bars, only gorier and more interesting.
The Hair Wreath and Other Stories by Halli Villegas. I've had this Chizine publication bookmarked to buy online ever since the title and cover art caught my eye in one of jack_yoniga's posts (I collect Victorian mourning art and jewelry, including hair wreaths), but I was so excited to see a Chizine book at Borders that I snapped it up. Looking forward to checking out a new (to me, anyway) author of dark fiction.
Other good reading of late has included Safe Return Doubtful: The Heroic Age of Polar Exploration by John Maxtone-Graham, The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea by Philip Hoare (can't recommend this one unless you also like Moby-Dick, which I do), and a reread of Peter Straub's wonderful Blue Rose trilogy (Koko, Mystery, and The Throat). And of course there's that thing coming out next week ... I'll get too excited if I mention it, so I won't.
40: A Doonesbury Retrospective by G.B. Trudeau. Couldn't really afford this massive slipcased compendium, but I somehow lost my old Doonesbury trade paperbacks about twenty years ago and have missed them ever since; they, the Beatles, and Harlan Ellison were a trio of huge formative influences on my commie-pinko-pervo underground-newspaper-publishing non-Pledge-of-Allegiance-saying teenage self. I've already found several strips I remember fondly, and puzzled anew over why the young Trudeau used to leave out his characters' mouths so often. Hey, at least I had my Borders reward card (40% off).
Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych ER by Julie Holland, M.D. This is the kind of book -- anecdotes by ER doctors, forensic examiners, EMT workers, brain surgeons, and such -- I can snarf down faster than any other. They're like candy bars, only gorier and more interesting.
The Hair Wreath and Other Stories by Halli Villegas. I've had this Chizine publication bookmarked to buy online ever since the title and cover art caught my eye in one of jack_yoniga's posts (I collect Victorian mourning art and jewelry, including hair wreaths), but I was so excited to see a Chizine book at Borders that I snapped it up. Looking forward to checking out a new (to me, anyway) author of dark fiction.
Other good reading of late has included Safe Return Doubtful: The Heroic Age of Polar Exploration by John Maxtone-Graham, The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea by Philip Hoare (can't recommend this one unless you also like Moby-Dick, which I do), and a reread of Peter Straub's wonderful Blue Rose trilogy (Koko, Mystery, and The Throat). And of course there's that thing coming out next week ... I'll get too excited if I mention it, so I won't.