From Saturday, 24 August through Monday, 16 September, I read Matt Braun's Bloody Hand (NY: St. Martin's Press; 1996 [originally published in 1975 by Popular Library]); ISBN: 978-0-312-95839-8; 378 pps.

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From Saturday, 17 August to Tuesday, 20 August, I read the third book in Loren D. Estleman's Amos Walker series, The Midnight Man (NY: Open Road Integrated Media, 2011 [originally published in 1982 by Houghton Mifflin Company]; ISBN: 978-1-4532-2254-6; 263 pps.), as an e-book borrowed from the library.

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Just saw the best sci-fi movie I've seen in years: District 9, directed by Neill Blomkamp (and co-written by him and Terri Tatchell ( Read more... )

I recently re-read What Makes Sammy Run? by Budd Schulberg (NY: Penguin Books, 1980 [first published in the U.S. in 1941 by Random House, Inc.; first published in the UK in 1941 by Jarrolds; first Penguin Books edition published in 1978 with a new afterword by the author; reprinted in 1980]; ISBN: 0-14-00.4795-6; 252 pps.), from Wed., 8 July 2009 ( Read more... )

The current issue of The New Yorker (the 10 August 2009 issue: published last Monday, 3 August, but dated yesterday, this is one of their bi-weekly issues) has a couple of articles that shed a different light on the seminal work of two well-loved children's authors (well, children's and young adult, to be fair): Judith Thurman's "Wilder Women: The ( Read more... )

I read Jitterbug by Loren D. Estleman (NY: Forge (Tom Doherty Associates), 2000 [first published in hardcover October 1998; first mass market paperback edition published February 2000]; ISBN: 0-812-54537-0; 303 pps.) from Monday, 20 July through Friday, 24 July.


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Just realized that most of the book reviews I've posted thus far this year have been for graphic novels; here are a couple of shortish reviews of books without any pick-chures*, to try to class the joint up a tad:


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OR: "Who's your baby-daddy?"

This past Tuesday (20 May), CBC Radio One's Sounds Like Canada aired a segment in which show host Shelagh Rogers interviewed the Mohawk-Canadian athlete Waneek Horn-Miller, who first landed in the national spotlight thanks to having been almost fatally stabbed during the Oka Crisis of 1990, when she was participating ( Read more... )

George Packer has a dispiriting editorial about the ongoing crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan in this week's issue of The New Yorker (issue of 9 October 2006, published 2 October 2006 ( Read more... )

Finally resumed my sloooooow slog through Anthony A. Barrett's Caligula: The Corruption of Power (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990 [first published in the UK in 1989 by B.T. Batsford Limited]; trade paperback; ISBN: 0-300-07429-8; 334 pps.); I'd set it aside out of frustration at how many frickin' highlighters I was using on it (five, all ( Read more... )