the book pile

Reading books without pictures? Yup, the to read pile is large and to read pile is larger, mostly filled with speculative fiction.

Shadow Ticket, Tom’s Crossing and House Party?

A trio of great things coming just around the corner.
Noir, NYC, and Vampires – The Joe Pitt Casebooks

Reread these recently and they still go.
Finally Ready to Talk About The Love We Share Without Knowing

One of my favorite novels of all time.
Back To Me – Approach to Fiction

You’re probably really interested in how I approach reading.
Being Mid in a Glass House – Lydia Millet’s Dinosaurs

When I learned I could be a dinosaur? And not Grimlock.
Living Where the Wild Things Are

Reflecting on a life through Maurice Sendak’s pages.
The Question of Love Answered in Shogun

My favorite… and maybe my first love story?
My Father, the Inn, and Me

Kind of a weird book to give a little kid, but thanks dad, I love it and you.
A Masterpiece of Modern Fantasy: Revisiting Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Reposting my review from 2004. Good times as an OG book blogger.
Mail Day – Blood Over Bright Haven

Just a quick update on what I’m reading.
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road Gets Graphic with Manu Larcenet

I’m digging these adaptations of contemporary prose masterworks.
The Day I talked to George R. R. Martin to Save A Life

For the love of Bronn.
The Power of Words in GRRM’s Fire & Blood

George R.R. Martin got bars. I tell you about them.
Zoe Thorogood’s It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth is the Best Comic of 2022

Zoe shares her six month dungeon crawl through life and it’s glorious. I did write more thoughts on It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth later though.
No Literary Jargon – The James P. Blaylock Interview

Reposting an interview from the archives. We can partially blame this guy for people wearing goggles off the clock.
White Cat, Black Dog, Happy Me. New Kelly Link!

This blog was not a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize fyi.