The past few years, I've been digging a bit into Norse myths and whatnot, somewhat spawned by what I saw in the Ring Cycle operas and my...

Turns out today, Dec. 19th, 2023, is the 180th anniversary of the publication of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol , arguably one of th...

Finished:  10/03/2019 Author:  Joseph Sheridan LeFanu Reader:  Tracey Childes Format:  Audiobook Decade:  1870's Recording:  200...

I'd intended to read Michelle McNamara's true-crime book, I'll Be Gone In The Dark (2018) , this year at some point, but wa...

A few folks had recommended to me Altered Carbon (2002) by Richard Morgan.  Likely this was due to my interests in science-fiction and d...

Like everyone else, I didn't think about Alexander Hamilton a whole lot other than knowing he was on my money, invented the Fed, and...

After reading The Haunting of Hill House , one or two of you (I know Max was one) suggested I check out more of Shirley Jackson's wo...

The study of history in practice can be maddening if the bar you hold up is trying to read up on every single thing anyone ever did befo...

The last time I read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? , I was about 15 and had a fairly hard time keeping up with a narrative that w...

If you've seen Apollo 13 , you've seen Ed Harris as the vest-wearing Flight Director Eugene F. Kranz.  Kranz served with NASA fr...

What's most surprising about reading a 1913 Tarzan novel is, really, in many ways how modern it feels.  Whether ERB was reflective o...

Normally this sort of thing isn't my bag, but a while back my pal SimonUK gave me a print copy of this book, and I picked it up and ...

The Little Sister (1949) is the fifth Raymond Chandler novel starring Phillip Marlowe, the detective character made most famous in The ...

Here's what I know after reading Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture (2016) - I would love to spend a couple hour...

In college I started reading up a bit on Theodore Roosevelt.  If you're reading American History of the 20th Century, he's a fig...

A while back NathanielC suggested this book to me, and after 33+ hours of audiobook, I am, at long last, done.* I've written about...

The great thing about novel adaptations back in the day was that they clearly either adapted the movies of books they'd read ten year...

I've been thinking a bit about the difference between the Continental Op work, Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe.  Brighter minds than me...

Reading the first two Bond books is a bit of an odd experience.  This is still a Bond that's not yet been made into a film, and the ...

One Christmas in my youth, I recall buying my dad a post-Ian Fleming Bond novel, something I thought to be an amazing find.   "Don'...