Early last week, I read the graphic novel “Pathfinder” by Laeta Kalogridis (story) and Christopher Shy (artwork). Shy’s work caught my eye from a trilogy he is doing with Michael Easton (the soap opera actor), called “Soul Stealer”. I found a copy of this one, and paid a total of $4.00 for it. The actual book cost was $0.01, making me decide to get it.
The book is based on the movie by the same title, which Kalogridis was the screenwriter....
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I recently finished reading “Genesis” by Bernard Beckett, which is listed as a novel. This had caught my eye at a book store a while back, but I never did get a copy. My brother-in-law David however had a copy that he was looking to trade on PaperBackSwap, so I gave him the point and took it myself.
Per usual, I turn to Amazon.Com and Publishers Weekly for a description:
Anax, the dedicated student historian at the center of Beckett’s...
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Well over a week ago I finished reading “The Riders” by Tim Winton. The book was a Booker Prize finalist, and I came across it at PaperBackSwap. Not liking to admit it, but the cover caught my eye, and then the description had me requesting it.
At Amazon.Com, I found the review from Library Journal which got my attention:
Fred Scully has gone to Ireland, where he is restoring a dilapidated cottage and waiting for Jennifer, his...
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Honestly, I will get back to a regular routine. Someday.
I have a few book reviews coming in the next couple of days.
But foremost today, Marcia and I sign a lease for a townhouse we will be renting.
Oh, and YEAH! for the US Olympic Men’s Hockey Team on beating Canada. Now can they win the gold?
I keep falling behind on these reviews. And I need to think of a better way to start these. I can’t remember when I finished “Saved” by Jack Falla, but it’s a novel about hockey, and from what I gather it was his only novel, though he was a very prolific writer, even working for Sports Illustrated in the past.
As is usual for me, I take my description from the Publishers Weekly review found on Amazon.Com:
Boston Bruins...
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Over the weekend I finished reading “The Manual of Detection” by Jedediah Berry, his debut novel.
From Publishers Weekly via Amazon.Com, per usual, here is the description:
Set in an unnamed city …… Charles Unwin, a clerk who’s toiled for years for the Pinkerton-like Agency, has meticulously catalogued the legendary cases of sleuth Travis Sivart. When Sivart disappears, Unwin, who’s...
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Sometime last week, in about a day and a half, if not less, I read “The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist, Vol. 1″ by Michael Chabon. This is the first of three, that I can see, of companion publications to his novel “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay”.
Essentially this was Chabon, along with some other writers and artists, creating some of the stories that made up the world of the Escapist and Luna Moth, two of the comic book...
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Sometime last week I finished reading “Beat the Reaper” by Josh Brazell. I got an ARC, though it has long been out in hardcover, from a friend of mine at BookMooch (Yaffa). I am not an active member of BookMooch any longer, but it worked out that if she reserved the book for me, and then sent me the points to request the book, she would still come out one point ahead on the deal since she lives in England. I couldn’t pass up the opportunity.
A week back or so, I started reading, and eventually gave up on reading a collection of short stories. It was “No One Belongs Here More Than You” by Miranda July and it had been something I was really looking forward to and really wanted to like.
Here is the list of stories contained within:
The Shared Patio
The Swim Team
Majesty
The Man on the...
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Sometime last week I finished reading “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay” by Michael Chabon. It was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2001. It was the 6th Pulitzer winner I have read.
I actually had two copies of this book. I read THIS...
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