Category Archives: Books
What I’ve Been Reading (#6)
You can’t help but love a book in which you’ll find sentences like, “I stepped out of my rocket ship into a bustle of parading pancakes.” Cameron Perice’s The Pickled Apocalypse of Pancake Island is a delightful fairy-tale-type story about a young pickle, Gaston Glew, who lives on the Pickled Planet. It’s a place where [...]
What I’ve Been Reading (#5)
As I’ve posted previously, I’ve been focusing on getting more Bizarro into my reading diet, and this time around it’s Help! A Bear Is Eating Me! by Mykle Hansen. While it doesn’t feature the in-your-face weirdness you might think of when someone says “Bizarro,” it does have a nice, bizarro feel to it. What we [...]
What I’ve Been Reading (#4)
I recently pulled my copy of Richard Brautigan’s Trout Fishing in America up out of the basement for a reread. The experience was sort of like a chance encounter with an old friend. You chitchat for a few minutes, catching up, and he tells you a few genuinely interesting things, things that maybe give you [...]
What I’ve Been Reading
After reading Rev. Steven Rage’s book Brutal Bible Tales, I’ve finally gathered a few thoughts and posted a review on Amazon. Here it is: Brutal Bible Tales is a fascinating book. It’s violent, confrontational, and might even be uncomfortable in places, depending on your sensibilities. Rage takes a selection prominent Biblical figures and and puts [...]
What I’ve Been Reading
I’ve been working more Bizarro books into my reading list recently (something I would recommend for anyone who’s feeling the need for some unconventional reading material). Here’s my review of You Morbid Westphal by Rev. Steven Rage, as posted on Amazon: This is a short book; you could read it in a single sitting, as [...]
What I’ve Been Reading
You might not think so if you read my books, but I love a good crime novel. Elmore Leonard and I go way back. I wish I could write one or two crime novels myself, but my brain just can’t manage to produce anything like that. Oh, well. Okay, so I had heard about Carl [...]