I just finished Steven Erickson "Gardens of the Moon." I did not really like it, so I won't be continuing the series. Lots of characters and lots of characters I didn't really like.
I just finished Steven Erickson "Gardens of the Moon." I did not really like it, so I won't be continuing the series. Lots of characters and lots of characters I didn't really like.
I think restorative nostalgia is the number one issue with comic book fans.
A fine distinction between two types of Nostalgia:
Reflective Nostalgia allows us to savor our memories but accepts that they are in the past
Restorative Nostalgia pushes back against the here and now, keeping us stuck trying to relive our glory days.
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill. I enjoyed the series on AMC, so now I'm finally reading the novel.
Watching television is not an activity.
Here's my Top 10 Mysteries & Thrillers of 2021.
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"I can't complain. I got to be Jim Morrison for the first half of my life, and Ward Cleaver for the second half." - Warren Zevon.
Glad to be of some help
I started the year with Pulp, by Charles Bukowski. I'm still in the first thirty some pages, but I can already say it's Bukowski's weakest book I've read so far. It's entertaining, and it works as a satire/homage of detective novels, but the language used in it doesn't work as well as in the novels and short stories starring Henry Chinaski, maybe because in those it felt as a genuine language for the character and the world he thrives in. I haven't gotten the same effect with Nick Belane, the protagonist of Pulp
"The Batman is Gotham City. I will watch him. Study him. And when I know him and why he does not kill, I will know this city. And then Gotham will be MINE!"-BANE
"We're monsters, buddy. Plain and simple. I don't dress it up with fancy names like mutant or post-human; men were born crueler than Apes and we were born crueler than men. It's just the natural order of things"-ULTIMATE SABRETOOTH
Started reading
Heads You Lose by Brett Halliday
<A Mike Shayne Mystery>
(© 1943, 1956)
Originally released under the title Blood on the Black Market
Just began Casino Royale (1953), the first James Bond novel by Ian Fleming.
A bat! That's it! It's an omen.. I'll shall become a bat!
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"I LOVE THE BONES OF YOU" By Christopher Eccleston
An autobiography about the actor dealing with his father's dementia diagnosis.
"Later" by Stephen King
A story about a young man who could see ghosts and he gets blackmailed by a corrupt cop.
"MY NAME IS WHY" by Lemn Sissay
An autobiography focused on the author's childhood in the British foster care system.
"IF IT BLEEDS" by Steven King
A set of 4 short stories I haven't finished yet.
"Destiny Unfulfilled" by Jim Adan is a good critique of Harry Potter. It's worth a read especially if you want to be a writer yourself.
It's a 157 pages long. Some of it could apply to other franchises .
I finished reading an advance copy of the Maddie Day mystery Batter Off Dead.
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"I can't complain. I got to be Jim Morrison for the first half of my life, and Ward Cleaver for the second half." - Warren Zevon.
Coraline, written by Neil Gaiman with illustrations by Dave McKean
"The Batman is Gotham City. I will watch him. Study him. And when I know him and why he does not kill, I will know this city. And then Gotham will be MINE!"-BANE
"We're monsters, buddy. Plain and simple. I don't dress it up with fancy names like mutant or post-human; men were born crueler than Apes and we were born crueler than men. It's just the natural order of things"-ULTIMATE SABRETOOTH
Now reading [I]Most Wanted[/I (2021)], the third book in the Alexander King series by Bradley Wright.
A bat! That's it! It's an omen.. I'll shall become a bat!
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On my Kindle, I'm now reading The Saint in London (1934), the twelfth Saint/Simon Templar novel by Leslie Charteris.
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I finished Savage Road by Chris Hauty.
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"I can't complain. I got to be Jim Morrison for the first half of my life, and Ward Cleaver for the second half." - Warren Zevon.
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I'm currently reading Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor.
Pull List: Daredevil, Radiant Black, Rogue Sun, No One, Time Before Time
“We never lose our demons. We only learn to live above them"