They Live, by Jonathan Lethem
June 8, 2011 10:27 amThe first in a series of books that looks to do for movies, especially cult movies, what 33 1/3 has... View Article
Category: 52 Books/52 Weeks
Let Us Build Us a City, by Donald Harington
June 1, 2011 10:14 amA tour of the history, present, and curiosities of 11 ghost-, or soon to be ghost-, towns in Arkansas. A... View Article
Stumptown Vol. 1, by Greg Rucka and Matthew Southworth
May 25, 2011 10:17 amRucka is a crime writing—both of comics and novels—of long standing. Stumptown is a more lighthearted take on the private... View Article
His Father’s Son, by Bentley Little
May 4, 2011 10:02 amAn ordinary man’s dying father reveals himself to be a serial killer. Great set up, but drab execution. Little’s evocation... View Article
To The Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
April 27, 2011 10:34 amStrange experience for me, this book. In terms of plot, perhaps the most boring book I’ve ever read (120 pages... View Article
Demo Vol. 2, by Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan
April 20, 2011 10:05 amThis second collection of short stories about everyday people with unusual powers (who are definitely not superheroes) focuses much more... View Article
Seven Soldiers of Victory, vol. 2, by Grant Morrison et al.
April 13, 2011 10:05 amGood God. This was amazing. Not as emotionally involving as the first volume, but in this Morrison blows you away... View Article
The Falls, by Ian Rankin
April 5, 2011 10:30 amMy first exposure to Rankin’s John Rebus novels focusing on the Edinburgh, Scotland police. It’s very compelling, and makes the... View Article
The Alienist, by Caleb Carr
March 30, 2011 10:11 amA fun historical novel about a serial killer stalking the seedier side of 1890s New York. The book, while a... View Article
The Killer of Little Shepherds, by Douglas Starr
March 23, 2011 10:47 amA terrific historical take on the appalling acts of a French serial killer of the 1890s and the development of... View Article