52/52: The Quiet Americans, by Scott Anderson
December 27, 2020 4:31 pmA gripping chronicle of the first 10ish years of the CIA, revealing that the agency has long had much better... View Article
Category: 52 Books/52 Weeks
52/52: BPRD: Plague of Frogs, vol. 1, by Mike Mignola et al.
December 23, 2020 10:02 amIn the first expansion of the Hellboy universe, focusing on the BPRD crew, the sense of impending doom and foreboding... View Article
52/52: Remina, by Junji Ito
December 18, 2020 10:16 amA sci-fi/horror romp reviving Ito’s over-the-top sense of fun and horror. Includes a riff on Akira’s destruction of Tokyo, now... View Article
52/52: King Suckerman, by George Pelecanos
December 4, 2020 10:55 amAnother of Pelecanos’ typically engaging and lived-in DC crime novels, this one set during the week of the 1976 Bicentennial.... View Article
52/52: Blood on Black Wax, by Aaron Lupton and Jeff Szpirglas
November 29, 2020 1:01 pmA book on horror movie soundtracks on vinyl that I read as research for a not-horror writing project I’m planning... View Article
52/52 Sebastian O, by Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell
November 26, 2020 4:22 pmAn early steampunk comic about an Oscar Wilde-style aesthete and rebel out for revenge. At about 70 pages, far too... View Article
52/52: Tanking to the Top, by Yaron Weitzman
November 24, 2020 2:53 pmA chronicle of the “Process†era Philadelphia 76ers, who used private equity theories to maximize their chances of getting star... View Article
52/52: The Searcher, by Tana French
November 20, 2020 11:02 amA modern day Western disguised as a mystery novel about a missing teenager in rural Ireland. French is so good... View Article
52/52: Scream with Me: The Enduring Legacy of the Misfits, by Jeremy Dean and Tom Bejgrowicz
November 9, 2020 8:49 pmA sure sign of being middle aged: Buying an art book of a band you discovered in high school, focused... View Article
52/52: The Trespasser, by Tana French
November 6, 2020 10:31 amA compelling police-centric crime thriller. It’s a simple mystery, turning heavily on psychology and interpersonal understanding, which is a nice... View Article