4451moanaJun 15, 20221 min readThe Palm-Wine Drinkard (book review) Amos Tutuola 140718: this is read 3 times. this is the book that made his name. it has been translated but i do not know how: a lot of the pleasure is...
4451moanaDec 20, 20211 min readPerdido Street Station (book review) China Miéville(New Crobuzon, #1) 210612: the length of this book intimidated me. i have not read it for twenty years because of this. now, after...
4451moanaDec 20, 20212 min readThe Scar (book review) China Miéville (New Crobuzon, #2) 210712: actually maybe less than five- but i did read it in three sittings. seems to be quibbling to say i never liked...
4451moanaNov 16, 20212 min readLa Jalousie (book review) Alain Robbe-Grillet210719: this is the translation which i have read, which reviews are more or less the same as this [book:Jealousy & In the...
4451moanaNov 16, 20212 min readLes Gommes (book review) Alain Robbe-Grillet 130519 read in french: i have read this before in translation years (decades...) past, 3rd r-g i think. since then have read some...
4451moanaNov 16, 20211 min readThe Facts of Winter (book review) Paul Poissel Kakyoung Lee (Illustrator), Paul La Farge (Translator) 050719: there is an interesting point about how literal translation of the title...
4451moanaNov 16, 20211 min readA Luminous Republic (book review) Andrés BarbaLisa Dillman (Translator), Edmund White (Foreword) 200721: there are some beautiful images here, some haunting, hurting narratives,...
4451moanaNov 16, 20211 min readFrankenstein in Baghdad (book review) Ahmed Saadawi, Jonathan Wright (Translator) 200823: dark, satiric, violent, postmodern. this vision of Baghdad in the early years of this 21st century...
4451moanaNov 16, 20211 min readIn Black and White (book review) Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Phyllis I. Lyons (Translator) 201003: the man who wrote 'to the point of murder'... then in paranoia tries to extricate himself from how...
4451moanaNov 14, 20212 min readWaiting For Godot (book review) Samuel Beckett050519: went to see production of this play last night. independent theatre, performance, company, simple, single set, industrial stage,...
4451moanaNov 14, 20213 min readMomo (book review) Michael Ende Marcel Dzama (Illustrations) 210422: i have read this at least three times, this is a new translation, though how different i do not know...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readTekkon Kinkreet: Black and White (book review) Taiyo Matsumoto(Black and White #1-3) .??? 2000s: great art. great art...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readBlood Song (book review) Eric DrookerJoe Sacco (Introduction) 120719 first review: second reading i have decided to up the rating, as this time i do as riley suggests- read...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readEvery Person on the Planet (book review) Bruce Eric KaplanAn Only Somewhat Anxiety-Filled Tale for the Holidays .??? 2010s: this is a perfect treat, perfect form, perfect medium. comic, graphic,...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readSwamp Thing: Protector of the Green (book review) Scott Snyder, Yanick Paquette (Illustrations) (Swamp Thing (2011) #1-2) 120519: rec from riley. superhero comics... or maybe just ‘weird’ comics? ‘horror’ comics? not something i know...
4451moanaNov 11, 20212 min readAmazing Spider-Man Epic Collection Vol. 17: Kraven's Last Hunt (book review) (Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection 17) Peter David (Text), David Michelinie (Text), J.M. DeMatteis (Text), Christopher J. Priest, et al....
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readThe Book Tour (book review) Andi Watson210522: eerie, excellent, exasperating. never been on book tour but this seems to capture its strange nature, in everything from just...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readDaytripper (Daytripper #1-10)(book review) Fábio Moon, Gabriel Bá, Craig Thompson (Introduction), Dave Stewart (Colours), Sean Konot (Lettering) 291017 from 230216: just read this again and again it is...
4451moanaNov 11, 20212 min readWest Coast Blues (book review) by Jacques Tardi (artist), Jean-Patrick Manchette 161010: later addition: looked at this again last night, decided to critique as if verbal rather than visual fiction, but such is...
4451moanaNov 11, 20212 min readThe Strange Tale of Panorama Island (book review) Suehiro MaruoRyan Sands (Translator), Kyoko Nitta (Translator) 200614: reread and reaffirm favoritegraphic, this time notice setup more, very...