In 1959, The Sunday Times gave James Bond writer Ian Fleming a round-the-world plane ticket and charged him with quickly traveling through 14 of the world’s major cities. (Fleming had been foreign editor for the paper for some time previously.) The result is Fleming’s Thrilling Cities, a memorialized account of the writer’s experiences. While I am a known fan of the James Bond books (you’ll find several of my reviews on this very site), this little non-fiction gem is one of my favorites of all of Fleming’s books. […]
Twin Peaksy Thrilling Suspense!
“There was darkness everywhere humans gathered. The way of the world.” This throwaway line in the first book of Blake Crouch’s Wayward Pines trilogy could also serve as the series’ thesis: No matter where people commune, no matter their intentions or desires, enmity lurks. It’s just how we are as a species. Pines explores this concept in a dream-like setting that will be familiar to anyone who has seen more than two minutes of Twin Peaks. In fact, Crouch has been very forward about Twin Peaks‘ influence on his own book […]
You can dance, Chickie Baby!
One of my favorite thing about having kids is getting to read with them. That’s how I was raised. Some of my own earliest memories are sitting with my dad and reading through an old joke book that he got me. After every knock knock joke or pun we would throw our heads back, laugh, and slap our knees. This review highlights a new favorite of my kids – Dance by Matthew Van Fleet. In this book, a newborn chick stumbles into a very cool jazz/big band/rockabilly […]
Origin Story of an Icon
While the link is for the entire Musashi saga, this review is of the first paperback volume which seems to be out of print or otherwise unavailable from Amazon directly. There are five or six volumes of the paperback version of the story. One of the first RPG videogames I ever played was Brave Fencer Musashi on the original Playstation. While the game was fun and lighthearted, I learned from a video game store employee that Musashi was actually an iconic Japanese figure. I wanted to learn more, but […]
Veronica Mars + Lois Lane = Bliss.
Gwenda Bond’s Fallout is a wonderful mishmash of things that I love. First – the characters. Bond understands the characters of Lois Lane, Clark Kent, and that annoying itch to do the right thing, even if it’s not safe or convenient. The setting, high school, provides appropriate stakes for Lois’ origin story. She risks a lot to do good. It may not be the end of the world if she fails in her mission in the book, but there are real consequences. Finally, it was a fun […]
Yabba Dabba Dude, This is Deep
Any comic book nerd needs a hookup – a trusted advisor on new and interesting books. Like a counselor, best friend, or record store employee, the a nerd’s comic book expert has to know their client and know the lay of the land. What will the nerd like, what will the nerd hate, and, perhaps most importantly, what will expand the nerd’s horizons? The people of Titan Moon Comics have never steered me wrong, so when they told me that the new DC/Hanna-Barbera mashups were […]
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