Category: Booklog

I stopped by to support my local independent bookseller yesterday, and was immediately confronted with a dilemma: A big display of signed copies of White Night by Jim Butcher, the new Dresden Files novel. The signed part has nothing to do with the dilemma– I’m a reader, not a collector– the dilemma was that I… Continue reading Jim Butcher, White Night [Library of Babel]

“Richard Stark,” is, of course, the name that Donald E. Westlake uses when he wants to write books tat aren’t funny. Ask the Parrot is the umpteenth Parker novel, picking up mere minutes after the previous volume, Nobody Runs Forever. In that volume, Parker and a crew of other guys robbed a bank in western… Continue reading “Richard Stark,” Ask the Parrot [Library of Babel]

I stopped by the library the other day, just to see if they had anything new, and I happened across the graphic novel section, which actually had a fairly decent selection of collected comics. As I’ve said before, I balk at paying $20 for soemthing that will take me an hour to read, particularly if… Continue reading Giant Comics Round-Up

This is actually Klosterman’s first book, but the fourth one that I’ve read. As previously noted, I’m dangerously fond of his writing, so when I saw copies of a new printing of Fargo Rock City on a display in Borders, well, I had to pick it up. To be perfectly honest, though, I was slightly… Continue reading Chuck Klosterman, Fargo Rock City [Library of Babel]

There’s been a copy of Snake Agent at the local Borders for a while now, but it kept narrowly losing out to other books. On a recent shopping trip, though, I was buying enough stuff that throwing another trade paperback on the pile was just a small perturbation, so I picked up a copy. The… Continue reading Liz Williams, Snake Agent [Library of Babel]

Back at Boskone, I went to a panel consisting of a number of revieweres recommending books that we might not have heard of. Toward the end, one of the panelists rattled off a list of authors writing urban fantasy (what he described as “Laurel Hamilton without all the porn”), and Rob Thurman was on the… Continue reading Rob Thurman, Nightlife [Library of Babel]

Kate bought this a while back, and I picked it up a little bit before Boskone, because I wanted to read at least a little of it before the Mike Ford retrospective panel. I was a little disappointed that the panel didn’t mention this or his other lesser-known works, but, hey, it got me to… Continue reading John M. Ford, The Scholars of Night [Library of Babel]

I picked up a copy of the re-issue of The Armageddon Rag in the dealer’s room at Boskone, mostly because Emmet O’Brien raves about it. This is, of course, a little dicey, because Emmet’s a weird guy sometimes, but the premise looked fairly interesting. The book follows washed-up author Sander Blair, founder and former editor… Continue reading George R. R. Martin, The Armageddon Rag [Library of Babel]

I am totally mystified by the vagaries of the publishing industry. Karl Schroeder’s latest novel, Sun of Suns apparently came out back in October, but I can’t recall ever seeing a copy in a bookstore. I think I would remember it, because he’s on my “buy immediately” list after Permanence and Lady of Mazes. And… Continue reading Karl Schroeder, Sun of Suns [Library of Babel]

I read Guy Gavriel Kay’s newest book, Ysabel a while ago, but I’ve been dithering about what to say in the booklog entry. I’ve been dithering long enough, in fact, that Kate beat me to it, so now I have to post something. Kay is best known for a set of very loosely connected pseudo-historical… Continue reading Guy Gavriel Kay, Ysabel [Library of Babel]