Sunday, April 25, 2004
Book #49
Erik Larson
Devil in the White City
2003: Crown
Started: April 25, 2004
Finished:
I picked this one up to start tonight. The Evil Hippy lent it to me.
Erik Larson
Devil in the White City
2003: Crown
Started: April 25, 2004
Finished:
I picked this one up to start tonight. The Evil Hippy lent it to me.
Book #48
Warren Ellis
Come In Alone
2001: AIT/Planet Lar
Begun: April 22, 2004
Finished: April 25, 2004
Picked this one up at a comic show last weekend. It's a collection of 52 essays writer Warren Ellis did for Comic Book Resources over the course of a year.
Smart writing about a genre and medium that doesn't get a lot of respect (nor should it, given the way it's carried itself, especially lately, says Warren).
He recommends a lot of reading, too. Already had to add a couple of his recommendations to the wish list.
My favorite bit was an interview he did with Mark Waid, who throws himself into the superhero stories in a way Warren abhors. It's a good dialog.
Warren Ellis
Come In Alone
2001: AIT/Planet Lar
Begun: April 22, 2004
Finished: April 25, 2004
Picked this one up at a comic show last weekend. It's a collection of 52 essays writer Warren Ellis did for Comic Book Resources over the course of a year.
Smart writing about a genre and medium that doesn't get a lot of respect (nor should it, given the way it's carried itself, especially lately, says Warren).
He recommends a lot of reading, too. Already had to add a couple of his recommendations to the wish list.
My favorite bit was an interview he did with Mark Waid, who throws himself into the superhero stories in a way Warren abhors. It's a good dialog.
Book #47
Pat Fitzhugh
The Bell Witch: the Full Account
2000: the Armand Press
Begun: April 22, 2004
Finished: April 24, 2004
A quick read. A nice overview and analysis of the Bell Witch, which was purported to have haunted the Bell family in Adams, Tennessee, in the early nineteenth century.
I bought it when it was first published, and read bits and pieces. But never read the whole thing.
A lot much of the stuff in the books I'd already read from other sources, though. Very little actual new information or insight. But a nice overview, if you've never read much about it.
William Gay had a piece in Oxford American about the legend, which would be a quicker starter.
Pat Fitzhugh
The Bell Witch: the Full Account
2000: the Armand Press
Begun: April 22, 2004
Finished: April 24, 2004
A quick read. A nice overview and analysis of the Bell Witch, which was purported to have haunted the Bell family in Adams, Tennessee, in the early nineteenth century.
I bought it when it was first published, and read bits and pieces. But never read the whole thing.
A lot much of the stuff in the books I'd already read from other sources, though. Very little actual new information or insight. But a nice overview, if you've never read much about it.
William Gay had a piece in Oxford American about the legend, which would be a quicker starter.
Book #46
Alan Taylor
American Colonies
2001: Viking
Started: April 5, 2004
Finished:
It's good reading, but it's dry. And like I said, my attention span's been suffereing lately. I'm still digging away.
Lots of great stuff in here, though. Never really thought about the sociological and economic structure of the North American colonies under Britain, France and the other European powers.
Alan Taylor
American Colonies
2001: Viking
Started: April 5, 2004
Finished:
It's good reading, but it's dry. And like I said, my attention span's been suffereing lately. I'm still digging away.
Lots of great stuff in here, though. Never really thought about the sociological and economic structure of the North American colonies under Britain, France and the other European powers.
Book #45
James Thurber
The Thurber Carnival
Originally Collected in 1945, I read the 1999 Perenniel paperback.
Started: April 2, 2004
Finished: April 15, 2004
My attention span's not been really good lately. A short story binge will usually fix that. It didn't, but not for lack of trying.
Thurber's great. Think of an everyman absurdist play. "The Dog That Bit People" is still one of my favorites.
James Thurber
The Thurber Carnival
Originally Collected in 1945, I read the 1999 Perenniel paperback.
Started: April 2, 2004
Finished: April 15, 2004
My attention span's not been really good lately. A short story binge will usually fix that. It didn't, but not for lack of trying.
Thurber's great. Think of an everyman absurdist play. "The Dog That Bit People" is still one of my favorites.
