The Stormlight Archive, Book One: The Way of Kings – Brandon Sanderson (Content warning for descriptions of mental illness) Aw frig, how does one even begin to summarize one’s favorite book? A book that, no matter how many times one reads it, manages to hold new lessons, new secrets and new things one’s…
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January 2021 Books Read Standouts: Lumberjanes, Vol. 6 / How Long Til Black Future Month?
How Long ’til Black Future Month? – N.K. Jemisin Yoooooooooo it’s our pal N.K. Jemisin again! She’s the best, as we remember from last time, and this collection of her short stories is a very different experience but an equally awesome and perhaps more accessible one, which is of course the essential beauty…
December 2020 Books Read Standouts: Heart-Shaped Box/Alien: The Original Screenplay
Heart-Shaped Box – Joe Hill Joe Hill is the man! I’ve really enjoyed just about everything I’ve read from him; 20th Century Ghosts, Full Throttle, Strange Weather and NOS4A2 are all so solid that “Let’s read a Joe Hill” has become a go-to solution when my wife and I can’t think of anything for me…
November 2020 Books Read Standouts: The Only Good Indians/Conan: Battle For The Serpent Crown
The Only Good Indian – Stephen Graham Jones Oh look, it’s the second time in a row Stephen Graham Jones has shown up! WHAT A COMPLETELY COINCIDENTAL CRAZY RANDOM HAPPENSTANCE. I had no idea this was going to happen! Night of the Mannequins was a really good introduction to Jones and his way, but…
October 2020 Books Read Standouts: Night Of The Mannequins/Batman – White Knight
Prose: Night of the Mannequins – Stephen Graham Jones Look, I have never let being late to a party prevent me from making it my new home and inviting a few other people over without the host’s consent, and so it is with Stephen Graham Jones, my new favorite horror author about whom I simply will…
August 2020 Books Read Standouts: Tortilla Flat/The Sandman, Vol. 1
Tortilla Flat – John Steinbeck I have only ever been the biggest Steinbeck nerd and fanboy; Travels With Charley is still my favorite nonfiction work and Cannery Row was the first time I realized I could enjoy a novel that didn’t have wizards, journeys to the center of the earth, or medieval anthropomorphic animals who enjoyed…
July 2020 Books Read Standouts: Peace Talks/Immortal Hulk, Vol. 1
The Dresden Files, #16: Peace Talks – Jim Butcher I’ve been a die-hard Dresden Files fanboy for the last decade, through every stage of the affliction: Rabid Consumption Proselytization Discomfort With Increasingly Indefensible Sexism “Harry’s A Misogynist But Butcher Isn’t, And Flawed Characters Are More Realistic And Interesting!” “Harry Gets His Ass Kicked And/Or Saved…
June 2020 Books Read Standouts: Lone Wolf & Cub, Vol. 1/Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn
Lone Wolf & Cub, Vol. 1: The Assassin’s Road LW&C is one of those things it’s hard to be objective about because of the gravity well created by its history and legacy; if you enjoyed The Mandalorian, the Hawk & Chick episodes of Bob’s Burgers, Logan, Road To Perdition or any other Badass & Child…
April 2020 Books Read Standouts: A Confederacy Of Dunces/Mister Miracle
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole Dunces is the funniest book ever written, the kind of funny so smart and profound and forceful that half the time you can’t even laugh because what’s happened is bigger than laughter can hold. I’ve read it half a dozen times and on this occasion read it…
March 2020 Books Read Standouts: False Value/Rumble, Vol. 1
Rivers of London #8: False Value – Ben Aaronovitch I love the Rivers of London books first and foremost because they are Good; they’re about a Black, British cop who discovers that A.) Magic is real and B.) There is an entire, if skeletonized, branch of the Metropolitan Police (known as the Folly) that handles it, and that…