The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent.

Every writer is unique, of course. But some are quirkier than others, with idiosyncrasies closer to the surface. They're the obviously unique ones. Even in that company, Rudy Rucker stands ou...

http://antickmusings.blogspot.com/2024/04/million-mile-road-trip-by-rudy-rucker.html

It's weird how a serialized story turns into something different in collected form. Obviously, it was structured to be read in snippets, day by day, over time. Getting a big clump of it all at ...

http://antickmusings.blogspot.com/2024/04/darwin-carmichael-is-going-to-hell-by.html

Jeffrey Brown is a prolific, interesting cartoonist (and teacher of cartooning), yet another creator that sits in my head in the category "I need to keep up with their work" until I realize the ...

http://antickmusings.blogspot.com/2024/04/a-matter-of-life-by-jeffrey-brown.html

Some titles are more obvious than others. This book could have been called anything, but it would have been Haruki Murakami Manga Stories  even if it was named something different. So some edit...

http://antickmusings.blogspot.com/2024/04/haruki-murakami-manga-stories-by-jean.html

"Portions for Foxes" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song by a woman or a band led by a woman. See the introduction  for more. Doing a little research for this post, I found out t...

http://antickmusings.blogspot.com/2024/04/portions-for-foxes-orenda-fink.html

> Professor McFwain stepped on the accelerator, and the > Hindustan-eight sort of threw itself forward - the car has a > desperate way of moving, as though it was hurl...

http://antickmusings.blogspot.com/2024/04/quote-of-week-supplemental-weve-all.html

> Should you rest upon a bench, and your tired eyes close, depend upon > it the policeman would rouse you and gruffly order you to 'move on.' > You may rest on the�...

http://antickmusings.blogspot.com/2024/04/quote-of-week-job-hasnt-changed.html

I read this whole series once, when everyone else did, starting in 2000 when this translation was originally published in the US. (I should note here that this volume - I think the whole series ...

http://antickmusings.blogspot.com/2024/04/lone-wolf-and-cub-vol-1-assassins-road.html

I've written about Daniel Pinkwater a lot here: see Borgel  for my most recent attempt, or just plumb the archives for more. The short version: he's been writing quirky, smart books, ostensib...

http://antickmusings.blogspot.com/2024/04/yobgorgle-mystery-monster-of-lake.html

This one is the middle, so of course I got to it last. There seems to be a recent omnibus of the Mignola/Johnson-Cadwell books under almost exactly the same title, which will be somewhat confus...

http://antickmusings.blogspot.com/2024/04/our-encounters-with-evil-by-mike.html

Jack London was a socialist, of course. Casual readers can forget that - and his books often phrase things in ways that will tend to make modern readers miss his expected ends - but several of h...

http://antickmusings.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-people-of-abyss-by-jack-london.html

"Portions for Foxes" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song by a woman or a band led by a woman. See the introduction  for more. I have two playlists that are all-women, with my usu...

http://antickmusings.blogspot.com/2024/04/portions-for-foxes-ettes.html

Three books arrived this week - two of them in the mail, through the usual publicity channels, and one from the library. I'll take them in that order. The Runes of Engagement  is a novel by Da...

http://antickmusings.blogspot.com/2024/04/reviewing-mail-week-of-41324.html

> Suddenly, out of the toilet bowl, there reared up a human arm. It > was clad in some white, diaphanous fabric, almost certainly samite, > and in its long, slim hand...

http://antickmusings.blogspot.com/2024/04/quote-of-week-you-know-hes-king-because.html

This book is one of the few records that a strip called Please Keep Warm ever existed. Well, there are launch announcements and excerpts elsewhere, but the actual GoComics strip has fallen in...

http://antickmusings.blogspot.com/2024/04/this-must-be-place-by-michael-sweater.html

Some graphic novels make connections mostly in words, while others traffic primarily in images. Totem  is a book of images; it has several narrative strands, only about half of which have word...

http://antickmusings.blogspot.com/2024/04/totem-by-laura-perez.html

This may be part of a series. But, if it is, the series through-line seems to be the use of doughnuts as dimensional portals, and maybe some mostly-background fictional organizations. So it's not...

http://antickmusings.blogspot.com/2024/04/when-its-jar-by-tom-holt.html

My standard complaint about the Black Hammer comics is that they're mostly static, locked into an initial premise that wasn't all that exciting to begin with. I suppose that's in distinction to...

http://antickmusings.blogspot.com/2024/04/black-hammer-visions-vol-1-by-jeff.html

"Portions for Foxes" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song by a woman or a band led by a woman. See the introduction  for more. I love metaphors: that should be clear by now. This ...

http://antickmusings.blogspot.com/2024/04/portions-for-foxes-dragonette.html

As always, this is an index more than anything else, and not even a useful index until later, when the posts go live and I add links. For now, here's what I recently read: Salva Rubio & Efa, M...

http://antickmusings.blogspot.com/2024/04/books-read-march-2024.html

I got four books from the library this week, all things I requested and then picked up when they came in. Here's what they were: Murakami T  is a book of essays by Hauki Murkami about his favo...

http://antickmusings.blogspot.com/2024/04/reviewing-mail-week-of-462024.html

> The waiter seemed a little offended about the flowers of the > Pyrenees, so I overtipped him. That made him happy. It felt > comfortable to be in a country where i...

http://antickmusings.blogspot.com/2024/04/quote-of-week-sound-commercial-basis.html

There are people who can keep all of the Impressionists straight - who can even say which of those famous 19th century French painters are really Impressionists and which aren't. They can quickl...

http://antickmusings.blogspot.com/2024/04/monet-itinerant-of-light-by-salva-rubio.html

I'm not sure if it was just my choice of courses, or a trend in literary favor, but I basically didn't read any Hemingway as a student, even though I got an English degree from Vassar in 1990. ...

http://antickmusings.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-sun-also-rises-by-ernest-hemingway.html

I have never been a particularly positive person. I think I've mellowed as I've gotten older, from the cynical grump I was in my twenties, but I'm not now, and probably never will be, the perso...

http://antickmusings.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-art-of-living-by-grant-snider.html