![]() ![]() Last was (library download, as was the Oates) the latest Max Freeman mystery by Jonathon King, DON’T LOSE HER. I have the newly arrived MOTIVES FOR MURDER, a Crippen & Landru collection edited by Martin Edwards as a Detection Club collection in honor of Peter Lovesey’s 80th birthday coming up next, as well as a Joe Lansdale library collection I’ve downloaded. I expected a typical tale of the period, with the cops calling in the gifted amateur and deferring humbly to their genius, but this was nothing like that, more like a police tale with Parr and his assistants taking most of the action. Most were written in the 1920s and 1930s and set in New York, and most featured Deputy Police Commissioner Parr and his amateur friend and occasional helper Oliver Armiston. This grew on me as I went along, though mostly I read only one story per day. While not a fun read by any means, it was quite good and I’m glad I read it.Īnother slow read for me was the latest Crippen & Landru Lost Classics title, THE PURPLE FLAME and Other Detective Stories by Frederick Irving Anderson. Friends may have thought she’d be writing a book but she was basically curled up, not sleeping, freaking out, as so many “real” people would under the same circumstances. Basically, after her husband of 47 years died suddenly after a short bout with pneumonia followed by a secondary infection picked up at the hospital, she fell apart. A WIDOW’S STORY: A Memoir by Joyce Carol Oates took up a lot of the week, as it wasn’t a fast read and there was only so much of it I could read at a sitting. Yes, we were busy with Thanksgiving/birthday things but I did read. The great thing about books at this time of year is that they can be a great alternative to facing crowded stores and mindless shopping. And there are a few more graphic novels and collections at hand - I’m hearing the siren call of a couple of Prince Valiant collections and one by Chris Ware as I type these words. I also read one ‘book” book: the Asimov, Waugh, and Greenberg anthology ISAAC ASIMOV’S WONDERFUL WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION #10: INVASIONS.Ĭoming up will be a return to the real world of reading with both a Spenser and a Reacher waiting, as well as another early James Herbert novel and (most likely) a few more Asimov anthologies. Most memorable were the Stormwatch, Planetary, and X-Men books with their strong storylines, GOTHAM BY GASLIGHT with its Jack the Ripper Easter eggs, and Frank Miller’s gritty, punch-in-the-gut SIN CITY tale. Maybe I’m not discriminating enough or maybe it was my pie-induced coma this week, but I enjoyed every one of those books on one level or another. Michael Straczynski’s SUPERMAN: EARTH ONE, WITCHBLADE: ORIGINS, and Frank Miller’s SIN CITY: THE HARD GOODBYE. In no particular order: five from Warren Ellis’ Stormwatch series (CHANGE OR DIE, LIGHTNING STRIKES, FORCE OF NATURE, FINAL ORBIT, and A FINER WORLD, two from Tony Daniel’s The Tenth series (“ABUSE OF HUMANITY” and THE BLACK EMBRACE), Harlan Ellison’s PHOENIX WITHOUT ASHES (my FFB this week), Brian Augustyn’s GOTHAM BY GASLIGHT: A TALE OF THE BATMAN, Dennis O’Neil’s BATMAN: THE COMIC ADAPTATION (from the Michael Keaton film), Warren Ellis’ PLANETARY: ALL OVER THE WORLD AND OTHER STORIES, HAWKMAN (a collection of the Gardner Fox/Joe Kubert stories from the early Sixties), TEEN TITANS: BEAST BOYS & GIRLS, X-MEN: THE DARK PHOENIX SAGA, SPIDER-MAN: THE ORIGINAL COMIC ADAPTATION (from the first Toby O’Brien film), Chuck Dixon’s WAY OF THE RAT, VOLUME ONE: THE WALLS OF ZHUMAR, J. ![]() ![]() I read nineteen (!) of those suckers, including a number of the ones you had sent me (again, thanks). ![]() The holiday and the comings and goings meant this was a graphic novel kind of week for me, Richard. ![]()
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