The Winter Men, by Brett Lewis and John Paul Leon
December 31, 2009 2:09 pmI feel bad disliking this book. Its tortured history – seven years in development; length changed from 8 issues to... View Article
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I Have the Right to Destroy Myself, by Young-ha Kim
December 31, 2009 2:32 amThis is a weird book. It’s a Korean novel about a writer who gets people to hire him to help... View Article
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby, by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
December 30, 2009 4:32 pmThis should be right up my alley: dark fairy tales and short stories with fantasy/fairy tale overtones. But it doesn’t... View Article
Blankets, by Craig Thompson
December 30, 2009 2:31 amA really interesting, richly realized memoir about growing up as a misfit and finding comfort and connection in a first... View Article
Pluto Vol. 6, by Naoki Urasawa
December 29, 2009 2:01 pmIt’s hard to believe this isn’t the concluding volume; practically everything wraps up here. It could be the last book,... View Article
The Ruins, by Scott Smith
December 20, 2009 10:10 amThis Americans-on-vacation horror novel is intense, queasy, non-stop. The villain, if you can say there is one, is impressively original.... View Article
Blink and You’ll Miss It …
December 11, 2009 2:21 am… but I’m in this story that Time.com did at King Con Brooklyn. I’m only there for about two seconds,... View Article
Fires, by Nick Antosca
December 5, 2009 2:40 amConceptually, right up my alley: A novel about wildfires revealing the horrifying, hidden secrets of a quiet suburban neighborhood. It... View Article
Lush Life, by Richard Price
December 3, 2009 5:40 pmA virtuoso, beautiful book about cops, crime, history, urban development, and the ghost kicked up by the old becoming new.... View Article