“Let the Right One In: A Novel” (John Lindqvist) “Jack of Shadows” (Roger Zelazny) “Blindsight” (Peter Watts) "Bartleby, the Scrivener (Dodo Press)" (Herman Melville) "How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (Dodo Press)" (Mark Twain)
If you love books, there are certain stories about books that will catch your heart, steal your breath, and make your head spin a bit as you hold back (or not) tears of joy. If you love books and love stories about books, then I recommend you take some time in the next couple of …
River of Gods Beasts and Super-beasts The Status Civilization The Secret History of Moscow
“The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Penguin Psychology)” (Bruno Bettelheim) “The Night of the Long Knives” (FRITZ LEIBER) “River of Gods” (Ian McDonald) Update (I’d forgotten this one): “Skin Trade (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 17)” (Laurell K. Hamilton)
“The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana” (Umberto Eco) “The Jungle Book (Unabridged Classics)” (Rudyard Kipling) “Star Dragon” (Mike Brotherton)
“Cocoa(R) Programming for Mac(R) OS X (3rd Edition)” (Aaron Hillegass) “A Tranquil Star: Stories” (Primo Levi) “Man in the Dark: A Novel” (Paul Auster) “Island World: A History of Hawai’i and the United States (California World History Library)” (Gary Y. Okihiro) “Open Your Eyes” (Paul Jessup)
“The Caryatids” (Bruce Sterling) “The Road” (Cormac McCarthy) “Accelerando (Singularity)” (Charles Stross) “Men and Cartoons” (Jonathan Lethem)
I’m doing sound design for the upcoming New Plays Festival at Brown University and we are heading into the last week before tech. Between my day job and working on the shows, I will be pretty busy for the next couple of weeks. Sadly, I missed posting a “Music You May Have Missed” entry on …
“From The Teeth Of Angels” (Jonathan Carroll) “Child Across the Sky” (Jonathan Carroll) “Matter” (Iain M. Banks) A light month when it comes to quantity, but satisfying in terms of quality.
“Magic for Beginners” (Kelly Link) “The Unblemished” (Conrad Williams) “Glass Soup” (Jonathan Carroll) “Use of Weapons” (Iain M. Banks)