With regard to GC's anthology, I fully expect that even if the pleasures depicted are dubious, there will be nothing dubious about the writing. But for now, I'll attempt to finish the February MR while on Caltrain to San Francisco.
I looked up what that was -- an introduction to the Episcopal Church through the prism of geek culture -- and this heathen is intrigued enough by the concept that he might give that a look. (To the extent that I had a theology pre-deconstruction, it was thoroughly heretical.)
A few years ago they officially made May The 4th Star Wars Day, as a play on may the Force be with you. There's always big sales on Star Wars merch, the Disney owned cable channels will usually do a marathon of the movies, and we usually get some kind of a big media release, this year's was the last two episodes of the current animated series Maul: Shadow Lord.
I've only read the first three. Does it get better? I enjoyed the first one. I didn't much care for the second or third, so I stopped reading the series.
I also didn't really love the first two or three books, but it does get good in my opinion
I'll read a couple more.
Reading The Pirate’s Ghost, the 62nd Doc Savage novel, from 1938. Not loving this one.
Listening to the audiobook of Colonel Sun, by “Robert Markham” (Kingsley Amis) the first post-Fleming James Bond novel, from 1968 (it would be another dozen years before the Gardner 007s started coming out.
Listening to the audiobook of Colonel Sun, by “Robert Markham” (Kingsley Amis) the first post-Fleming James Bond novel, from 1968 (it would be another dozen years before the Gardner 007s started coming out.
Or not. I came across this while googling one of the other stories in the collection. Lethem talks about the small town the story was set in and where Jackson spent some time, and what led to the story.
Jonathan Lethem on Shirley Jackson
An interesting article on Jackson. Thanks for sharing!
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