Where Dead Voices Gather, by Nick Tosches

I have a couple of novels I haven’t reviewed, but I’m going to leave off discussing those till I have my thoughts gathered. For now, I want to write about the book I finished today, which is <i>Where Dead Voices Gather</i>, by Nick Tosches.
It’s been a funny week, one of those weeks where whatever [...]

Zombie Drought & Other Thirsts

Go to Postcards From Hell and read my pal Tristan Davenport’s story “La Sequía”. I mean, the first sentence is:
Contrary to promises made in church, death does not give her the use of her legs back.
You know you want to.
(And yeah, there’s been lots of cool stuff on Postcards From…, so go and troll the [...]

Magazine Catchup Part I - Asimov’s & F&SF, August ‘07 and Interzone July-Aug ‘07

In the last year, I traveled a lot — weeks and weeks, in fact — and ended up falling far behind on my magazine subscriptions. I usually catch up during the semester, sneaking a magazine in here or there, but last semester was so incredibly busy that I barely read any of my magazines. So [...]

Transcribed Marginalia on Librarything!

This is trippy. Librarything is hosting an index of annotations and marginalia in the books of famous individuals’ libraries. The linked example is of marginalia transcribed from John Adams’ library.
Sooner or later — like, maybe after I die of old age, but someday, anyway — this kind of index is going to be built right [...]

The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler… and What We’re Missing Today

This book came up at a party I was at, and when she heard that I had it on the bookshelf, but hadn’t read it yet, told me I could probably get through it in a couple of hours. I scoffed, because I’m a slow reader, but she was right, that was all it took.
Properly [...]

The Arrival by Shaun Tan

“You have to read this!” I said to Lime as I finished this book.
“Mmmm,” she said, nonplussed. I say this sometimes about books I know would take her ages to read — English, after all, being her second language.
“No, no, you can read this easily. There are no words in the book.”
“Then how can I [...]

The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice by Christopher Hitchens

I rarely inhale books, but today was one of those days. I whipped through this book, disillusioned — who’d have thought I could be more disillusioned than I had been? — yet not really surprised.

A revealing expose. But I know I’m late to the table.
Doubtless, some interpreted this text as an attack on Mother Teresa, [...]

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