Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Friday, October 10, 2025

Review: Empire of Pain

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 Empire of Pain is the history of the Sackler family. This is the family responsible for the opioid epidemic in the USA, killing lots of Am...
Wednesday, October 08, 2025

Review: Arrowsmith

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 After admiring Carlos Pacheco's work on Superman, I decided to look for more of his work, and came across Arrowsmith, which comes in tw...
Monday, October 06, 2025

Review: AstroCity Metro Book Vol 6

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 I never got around to buying/reading the last few AstroCity collections, and it turned out that they're now all available on Hoopa as ...
Thursday, October 02, 2025

Reiew: The Molecule of More

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 The Molecule of More is a book length exposition of Dopamine. There's plenty of exposition about Dopamine's role in well known hum...
Wednesday, October 01, 2025

Review: Batman - Creature of the Night

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 After reading Superman - Secret Identity, I discovered that Kurt Busiek wrote the Batman equivalent called Creature of the Night which sho...
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Review: Superman - Secret Identity

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 Somehow I'd missed that Kurt Busiek wrote a Superman story called Secret identity . Well, of course I had to go and check it out from H...
Monday, September 29, 2025

Review: Good Omens Graphic Novel

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 I will confess that I've always bounced off Terry Prachett's work. Disc World, you name it, I can't read more than a few pages ...
Monday, September 22, 2025

Review: Beguilement

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 Amazon showed me that Beguilement was for sale for $2. The library didn't have it in electronic format and I found myself thinking: ...
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Review: Play Nice

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 Play Nice is Jason Schreier's corporate history of Blizzard Entertainment. Written in a breathless manner that befits its subject, the...
Monday, September 08, 2025

Review: 1Q84

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 I previously bounced off 1Q84 , but after reading about Harukami talking about it about his first attempt at a really long novel (over 1000...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

Review: Novelist as a Vocation

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 I enjoyed Norwegian Wood enough to check out what Haruki Murakami thought about his career as a novelist. Novelist as a Vocation is an ori...
Monday, August 25, 2025

Review: Norwegian Wood

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 I will confess to having bounced off prior attempts to read Haruki Murakami books, but hope springs eternal, so somehow Norwegian Wood fou...
Thursday, August 07, 2025

Review: Supergirl - Woman of Tomorrow

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 No, I still haven't seen the new Superman movie yet (I'll wait to see it in streaming video), but I read enough James Gunn intervie...
Monday, August 04, 2025

Review: Everything is Tuberculosis

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 Everything is Tuberculosis got great reviews from everyone so I checked it out of the library to read it. The author, John Green, wrote Th...
Monday, July 28, 2025

Review: Shift

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 Shift claims to be abook about managing your emotions. In reality, you can't manage your emotions. When they are aroused, they'll ...
Monday, July 21, 2025

Review: Spent by Alison Bechdel

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 Alison Bechdel is famous for her rule about how to evaluate women characters in movies. I didn't have first hand experience of her work...
Thursday, July 17, 2025

Review: Our Moon

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Our Moon was a random pick – filling up the kindle prior to a flight. The author weaves between actual exposition of the scientific facts a...
Monday, July 14, 2025

Re-read: Aurora Rising

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Many years ago I first read Aurora Rising under a different title , and I thought it was a police procedural. Re-reading years later, I wil...
Thursday, June 19, 2025

Review: 7.5 Lessons About the Brain

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7.5 Lessons about Your Brain is a delightfully short collection of essays about the human brain. Each essay is short enough to read in abou...
Monday, June 16, 2025

Review: Moral Ambition

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 Moral Ambition is Ruger Bregman's book trying to convince people to stop taking high paying but soul sucking jobs in favor of jobs tha...