This book is filled with comic strips that make fun of history and literature, LOVED IT. Are you a snarky nerd? I’m betting you will love it too. Comparing beat poets to hipsters? Dude watching with the Brontes? Jules Verne has a crush on EA Poe, Wonder Woman is a little jaded, spam pigeons, the Church of Bros, 15th Century Peasant Romance comics, Austen mania, Sirens with duck-face. Do yourself a favor and grab a copy of this book. I finished it in one sitting, […]
Endings are the Second Hardest Part (Right After Titles)
I really liked this book right up until the last 10% or so. I don’t want to spoil anything for you, so I’ll move the reason down to the end of the post. Night Film is about an investigative journalist, a filmmaker and his daughter; it’s about living each moment of your life fully. It’s about horror movies and why they scare us. Scott McGrath is a disgraced journalist. After comparing filmmaker Stanislas Cordova to Hitler, McGrath was then accused and found guilty of slandering the director. […]
Scully Can Write!
I liked this book, a lot. I got the audio version from the library read by Scully herself. She’s very very good, which surprises none of us. This book takes place in the world, with involvement in Haiti and Tehran and Antarctica. The characters are diverse and Anderson carries their accents with skill and subtlety. They are believable, families worried about each other, teenagers who sound and behave like (brilliant) teenagers, world leaders who are also human beings, mysterious baddies who are not caricatures. The […]
Detective Boobs Fights Ghosties
These two graphic novels, The Unknown and The Unknown: Devil Made Flesh, were good enough, but I was repeatedly sucked right out of the story by the main character’s overdone breasts. Let me explain. Here’s the description: “Revered as the smartest person alive, Catherine Allingham is the world’s most famous provate investigator. Follow her adventures as she sets out to solve the one mystery she’s never been able to crack-death!” These were the covers that enticed me to pick these up at the […]
Unpopular Gals
There should be a separate category called “Margaret Atwood”. So much of her stuff defies categorization. This book is no different, and I really enjoyed it. A book of short stories published in 1992, I fervently wish my freshman in highschool self could have stumbled upon Atwood, instead I was reading Stephen King. No shade on King, but Atwood’s feminist sensibilities could have really helped me figure out some important things so much sooner than I did. Not all of these short stories are winners, […]
How’s Annie?
I am a Twin Peaks fan and enjoyed reading this oral history so much. There are some missing voices from key players (Lara Flynn Boyle and David Lynch most notably) but most of the stars participated. I read this book slowly and re-watched Twin Peaks on Netflix, catching all the nuance the actors and writers/directors/producers talked about in the book. Highlights include: Sheryl Lee (Laura Palmer) on being a baby actress and acting dead for the filming of the pilot and absorbing all she could […]