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About half of this journal is friends-only: my reviews of books, comics, and audio dramas are available for public consumption, as is the occasional comment about my research. Anything more personal than that (though it rarely gets more personal than me talking about restaurants I ate at) is locked. Comment to be added (you'll need a LiveJournal ( Read more... ) -
Reading Roundup Update: March 2012
I know, I know. No life blogging, but many reviews-- and many more queued up so that I can get through the rest of the semester with ease:
DC Comics:
Lucifer: Crux by Mike Carey
Lucifer: Morningstar by Mike Carey
Lucifer: Evensong by Mike Carey
Superman by George Lowther
Other comic books:
Watchmen by Alan Moore
American Splendor: The Life and Times of ( Read more... ) -
A Book!
It got lost somewhere across the Atlantic and had to be resent, but here it is at last:
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Reading Roundup Update: February 2012
Despite it being a short, busy month, I got a fair few reviews written:
19th-century literature:
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
Wessex Tales: That Is to Say, The Three Strangers, A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four, The Melancholy Hussar, The Withered Arm, Fellow-townsmen, Interlopers at the Knap, The Distracted Preacher by Thomas Hardy
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Reading Roundup Update: January 2012
Another month, another set of reviews published:
Doctor Who:
Professor Bernice Summerfield II: A Life of Surprises edited by Paul Cornell
Doctor Who: Short Trips #22: The Ghosts of Christmas edited by Cavan Scott & Mark Wright
Doctor Who #153: The Silver Turk by Marc Platt
Doctor Who #154: The Witch from the Well by Rick Briggs
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Reading Roundup Update: December 2011
The month of December saw me get the time to write some new reviews for Science's Less Accurate Grandmother, thanks to the end of the semester:
Comic books:
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, adapted by Seymour Chwast
Starslip Crisis, Volume 1 by Kristofer Straub
Starslip Crisis, Volume 2 by Kristofer Straub
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M. T. Anderson and Reading Widely: Half of a Manifesto, Maybe
So last night, I saw one of my favorite authors, M. T. Anderson, speak at Eastern Connecticut State University here in Willimantic. Anderson is a children's/YA writer, but he's absolutely one of my favorites, maybe in my top five ever. (Who else is in that top five? Good question.) I saw him speak at UConn back in 2008, but I couldn't pass up ( Read more... ) -
Reading Roundup: The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
This past spring, I taught my students Paul Auster's "City of Glass" (I forced them to apply Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics to it, defying all reason), instilling in me a desire to 1) reread the graphic novel adaptation and 2) reread the rest of The New York Trilogy. So, ages later, I finally did both:
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