First off I’d like to thank everybody for their comments last weekend. It’s been an exciting week at Book View Cafe. We have started selling our “premium titles, (and have acutally sold some, go us!)” So while we’re interested in … Continue reading
Category Archives: Books and Reading
No especially interesting comics this week (recommendations solicited, if anybody knows of anything thrilling coming up), but here is an exciting nonfiction volume! Published by Sequart Research & Literacy Organization, a nonprofit new to me, this is a solid well-made … Continue reading
Back in the 1980s, I wrote a bunch of Star Trek novels. I thoroughly enjoyed writing them. Pretty much the only drawback was that some of my colleagues took exception to my polluting my precious bodily fluids with evil tie-in … Continue reading
A while back I was the guest editor at audible.com and had occasion to consider recent audiobooks I’ve enjoyed, in particular books that pick your brain up, shake it around, and put it back in your skull with a new … Continue reading
So, the Event – the Aurealis Award Gala Ceremony, to give the full title – is over; eight or ten authors or illustrators are feeling very happy, four times that number are feeling disappointed, or at the very least, slightly … Continue reading
Check us out in this week’s Mind Meld at SF Signal. … Continue reading
Just Finished: HOUDINI, the Making of America’s First Superhero by William Kalush and Larry Sloman. Facinating look at the life of the great escape artist. Don’t think they really made their case that he was a spy. Currently reading: EMILY … Continue reading