I finished three books during this week, as well as one pulp magazine issue. Books Blaze the Trail, Snoopy, by Charles M. Schulz. This paperback contains strips selected from the Peanuts collection And a Woodstock in a Birch Tree. Though there are plenty that feature both Snoopy and his bird pal, there are also quite …
Weekly Reader — July 13 – 19, 2025
I finished three books during this week, as well as one pulp magazine issue. Books Space Cowboys, ed. by Kortnee Bryant. This recent (2023) anthology is the first of several from small publisher Raconteur Press aiming to capture the appeal of the American West in a science-fictional setting. As with any such anthology, not all …
Weekly Reader — July 6 – 12, 2025
I finished two books during this week. Books Captain Future and the Space Emperor, by Edmond Hamilton. Captain Future got his start in 1940 in a pulp magazine of the same name, which ran for 17 issues through early 1944. The title character, whose real name is Curt Newton, is a man trained from childhood …
Weekly Reader — June 29 – July 5, 2025
I finished four books during this week, as well as two pulp magazine issues. Books Swords and Deviltry, by Fritz Leiber. The first of Leiber’s Fafhrd and Gray Mouser series in chronological story order, this volume brings together origin stories for each of the pair as well as an account of the meeting that leads …
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Weekly Reader — June 22 – 28, 2025
I finished two books during this week, as well as one pulp magazine issue. Books Redrawn by Request: The Great Cartoons of J. R. Williams, by J. R. Williams. I first encountered the comic art of J. R. Williams in a number of reprint volumes put out by Lee Valley, the Canadian tool, hardware, and …
Weekly Reader — March 19 – 25, 2023
I finished four books during this week, as well as one pulp magazine issue. Books The Hammer of Thor, by Carter Brown. Police Lieutenant Al Wheeler probes a disappearance and a jewel robbery, though soon the case expands to include embezzlement and murder. Interlocking alibis of the chief suspects set Wheeler up for a courtroom …
Weekly Reader — March 12 – 18, 2023
I finished two books during this week, as well as one pulp magazine issue. Books The Interlopers, by Matt Helm. Matt Helm takes the place of a murdered courier so that another agency can identify all the people making up the spy network for which the dead man worked, but Helm has an assignment of …
Weekly Reader — March 5 – 11, 2023
I finished four books during this week, as well as two pulp magazine issues. Books Wednesday’s Wrath, by Don Pendleton. Mack Bolan reaches the third day in his final week-long sweep against the resurgence of the Mafia, but this time he is diverted from his planned target to tackle something much bigger in scope, with …
Weekly Reader — February 26 – March 4, 2023
I finished two books during this week, as well as one pulp magazine issue. Books Towers & Tortures: A Double Dose of Dexter Dayle, by Dexter Dayle — a Ramble House collection that brings together two British “Piccadilly novels,” low-cost lending library thrillers by an apparently pseudonymous author. Neither novel in the volume is good: …
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Weekly Reader — February 19 – 26, 2023
I finished two books during this week, as well as one volume of a multi-volume work and two pulp magazine issues. Books All Those in Favor, by H. Martin — a 1969 collection of business-related cartoons published by the American Management Association, this small volume reprints items that first appeared in several journals, including three …
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