From Saturday, 5 April through Sunday, 4 May, I read Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West (NY: Vintage Books [a division of Random House, Inc.], 1985; 2010; ed.: Kindle edition; 349 pps.).


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I've been picking my way through Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West (1985), a much-ballyhooed (though after the fact) western or revisionist western based on the exploits of the Glanton Gang of scalphunters in Mexico (and in what would later become Arizona). Unfortunately, I've been picking through it on my Kindle ( Read more... )

From Wednesday, 5 February 2014 to Friday, 21 March 2014, I read Clarence E. Mulford's Bar-20 (NY: Forge [a Tom Doherty Associates book], 1992; 2006; ISBN: 978-0-765-35737-3; 284 pps.; includes an introduction by Jackson Cain and a 3-chapter [33 pps.] excerpt from the 4th novel in the series, Hopalong Cassidy [Bar-20 is only 246 pps. long]), which ( Read more... )

From Friday, 24 January to Sunday, 26 January, I read Robert B. Parker's Appaloosa (NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons [published by the Penguin Group], 2005; ed.: 1st ed., hardcover; 276 pps.; ISBN: 978-0-399-15277-6); this is the first book in the Cole-Hitch quadrilogy. This was the first book that I started and finished in 2014, and the first book of ( Read more... )

In 2013 I added another platform to the tried-and-true (and, if truth be told, still preferred by me), 650-year-old printed and bound book platform: the missus sold me her Kindle Fire 7" last February, after she'd bought a Kindle Fire HD. I had a brief scare with it in April, when it mysteriously quit working, but the missus was able to dope-slap ( Read more... )

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 Monday, 2 January 2012 to Monday, 9 January 2012, I read Louis L'Amour's The Man From the Broken Hills (NY: Bantam Books, Inc.; 1975 [15th printing: April 1981]; ISBN: 0-553-24956-8; 217 pps.). This is the first novel that I started and finished in 2012.

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Not sure how I overlooked this one, unless it was because (a) I read it fairly early in 2011; (b) I didn't write a review of it, either here or in LibraryThing; or (c) I read it when I was home sick with the flu.

Anyhow, just wanted to update my "books read" highlights of 2011 with a mention of a pretty decent book that I read last March: Darryl ( Read more... )

I still haven't read any of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest), but, what with the 23 December release of the U.S. movie adaptation of the first book, directed by David Fincher (Alien 3, se7en, Fight Club, Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin ( Read more... )

From Wed., 5 Oct. to Sat., 12 Nov., I read Mike Blakely's Comanche Dawn (NY: Forge Books [Tom Doherty Associates, LLC], 1999 [first ed. pub'ed Oct. 1998; first mass market paperback ed. pub'ed May 1999]; 560 pps.; ISBN: 978-0-8125-4833-4).

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