Saturday Miscellany—1/29/22

  1. This post is brought to you by “hey, I remembered to proofread (seconds before I hit publish)!” Something I frequently forget to do (and only caught out of the corner of my eye while moving the mouse to the button). So this isn’t going up with the 4 missing links and 8 glaring formatting errors that it almost featured.
  2. I’d picked the graphic for this far before I read the last post I mention, there’s no connection between them.

Hope everyone had a decent week, and that it ends on a relaxing note—and, hopefully, with a good book.

Odds ‘n ends about books and reading that caught my eye this week. You’ve probably seen some/most/all of them, but just in case:
bullet ‘I always be sneaky’: Boise eight-year-old hides self-made book on library shelf—an insanely cute story from a library nearby
bullet The Comics Cavalcade: The rise of a medium—a very brief history of Comic Books
bullet Humor in Books, and Other Places, Too! An Interview With Susana Imaginário—the latest installment in Lockhaven’s series. (I’m really enjoying these, can you tell?)
bullet Witty and Sarcastic Book Club had another fun series this week, Fantasy Focus: Comedic Fantasy, you should check it out.
bullet An Interview with Andi Ewington, coauthor of Campaigns and Companions
bullet An Interview with Sean Gibson, author of The Part About the Dragon was (Mostly) True
bullet A guest post by Kyle Lockhaven, the aforementioned interviewer
bullet An Interview with Bjørn Larssen , author of Why Odin Drinks
bullet A Guest Post by D.H. Willison, author of things like Love, Death, or Mermaid?
bullet Where to start with: Agatha Christie—Janice Hallett provides this handy guide for people like me, who haven’t actually read one of the genre’s greats and want to start.
bullet 21 Phrases You Use Without Realizing You’re Quoting William Shakespeare
bullet A Reading Spreadsheet Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated—they don’t?
bullet 10 Book Series I Loved Growing Up—a fun post over on FanFiAddict, even if it makes me feel really old because I literally couldn’t have read most of these as a kid
bullet Blogging to Get Free Books: Sometimes Necessary, not Evil—Once again, I have missed a blogging controversy (and I’m fine with that), still a good post.
bullet What I’ve learnt from reading fiction – part 7—I really like these posts
bullet To binge read or not to binge read?

This Week’s New Releases that I’m Excited About and/or You’ll Probably See Here Soon:
bullet The Appeal by Janice Hallett—came out in the U.S., and should not be missed. I talked a bit about it last year.
bullet Accomplice by Lisa Lutz—will get under your skin. I posted about it recently.
bullet Light Years From Home by Mike Chen—a family drama and UFO abduction story, that just might involve an intergalactic war. I hopefully dive into this next week.

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4 Comments

  1. WS_BOOKCLUB

    Good for that 8 year old!!!
    Thank you for sharing my series this week! I appreciate it so much!

  2. Fun to remember the series’ that I loved growing up. Mine was certainly a different list than FanFiAccict posted! Did your list include the Oz books, the Black Stallion series, or Albert Payson Terhune’s dog stories?

    • HCNewton

      I owned and re-read a few times Osma of Oz, but couldn’t make my way through any of the rest. I did read a few Black Stallions and some of Terhune’s stories (I became dog-obsessed later in life, or I’d probably be an expert on him).

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