Category: books

The Hajime Isayama panel was the highlight of my Anime NYC 2022 experience. Trusting that his translator was as awesome… read more Anime NYC 2022 Day 2

I recognize a few of the characters – Master Roshi from Dragon Ball Z, Pochita from Chainsaw Man, and members… read more Anime NYC 2022 DAY 1

Despair deserved better in Volume 11 of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman series, Endless Nights. She deserved the narrative thread that… read more Despair Deserved Better

I remember enough to say for sure I was looking through the shelves at Forbidden Planet on the corner of… read more Misremembering The Sandman

Hye-young Pyun’s City of Ash and Red is a more impactful book after a worldwide pandemic lockdown. We all experienced… read more Revisiting Mol (An Updated Review of Hye-young Pyun’s City of Ash and Red)

Published 22 years ago, before 9/11, before Madoff, before Black Lives, before the pandemic, the January 6 White terrorist attack… read more The Hope Conservationist

SPOILERS! DON’T READ ON IF IT MATTERS! At the end of Anthony Bourdain’s Hungry Ghosts you are given recipes for… read more Anthony Bour-dan

SPOILERS! DO NOT READ ON IF IT MATTERS It’s “Sushi Yojimbo,” if I want to be glib about it. If… read more Sushi Yojimbo

“POSSIBLE SPOILERS! DO NOT READ ON IF IT MATTERS! When I started Dracula, Motherf**ker  I hadn’t realized that Alex De… read more “Monsterousness”

POSSIBLE SPOILERS! DO NOT READ ON IF IT MATTERS! I started House of M in March but wasn’t inspired to… read more Put It Down Pick It Back Up (House of M Review)

What I liked most about Hye-young Pyun’s City of Ash and Red were her observations on the language barrier between… read more My Secret Mol

After her story,“Stargazing,” I read all of ND Chan’s poetry to the tune of Oasis’ “Wonderwall.” “Stargazing” is my favorite… read more Poems to sing to Wonderwall

There are several editions of these stories. I saw on Amazon more recent editions split the “Summer, Fireworks, and My… read more Otsuichi’s Summer Fireworks

I needed something to take the weight of Arrival off my mind. Daryl Gregory’s Spoonbenders was a very effective and… read more It doesn’t have to be Greek to us

It’s been months since I finished the stories in Ted Chiang’s Arrival. Before that I had binged Rick Remender’s Black… read more Sensibility and Discovery in Ted Chiang’s Speculative Fiction

WARNING SPOILERS!!! As I read David Almond’s The True Tales of the Monster Billy Dean Telt By Hisself I kept… read more Billy Dean Sounds Out War