I finished three books during this week, as well as one pulp magazine issue. Books Scarlet Riders: Pulp Fiction Tales of the Mounties, ed. by Don Hutchison — as an anthology, the usual mixed bag, with some stories straightforward adventure (e.g., “Red Snows,” by Harold F. Cruikshank, and “Doom Ice,” by Dan O’Rourke) and some …
Weekly Reader — February 5 – 11
I finished four books during this week, as well as one 1920 issue of the pulp magazine The Black Mask. Books Swords and Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy, Volume 4, ed. by David A. Riley — the fourth anthology in the continuing series, published in June 2022, offering eleven stories of varying interest but overall …
Weekly Reader — January 29 – February 4
I finished three books during this week, as well as one 100-year-old magazine issue. Books Saints of the Christianization Age of Central Europe (Tenth-Eleventh Centuries), ed. by Gábor Klaniczay — a collection of five hagiographical works especially on missionaries and martyrs (often the one condition leading to the other): the Passion of Saint Wenceslas, by …
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January Haul — Books, Magazines, and Movies
A library sale late in the month helped boost my acquisitions in January. I got 27 books in total (including one gift), as well as one magazine and 13 movies on DVD. Highlights include several of the Horatio Hornblower novels, which I’ve never read; Murray Leinster’s The Forgotten Planet, which I’ll be reading in March …
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Weekly Reader — January 22 – 28
I finished two books during this week, and I began my reading of 100-year-old magazine issues as well. Books The Antiquary, by Sir Walter Scott — This tale centers on the title character and his friends and neighbors, including a mysterious young man whom he befriends; it offers plenty of gentle comedy and a modicum …
Weekly Reader — January 15 – 21
I finished just two books during this week, though I read about half of another that I have chosen not to finish, at least at this time. I also read one dialogue of Plato and much of the latest issue of the magazine Cirsova. The Best Cartoons from France, edited by Edna Bennett — This …
Weekly Reader — January 8 – 14, 2023
I finished five books and one magazine this week. Monday Mob, by Don Pendleton — The 33rd book in Pendleton’s highly successful series about Mack Bolan, the Executioner, kicks off a Hell Week as the warrior brings his special brand of destruction to the Mafia before retiring from that war to tackle a different threat …
Weekly Reader — January 1 – 7, 2023
The year 2023 is off to a pretty good start on the reading front, as I finished 6 books through January 7: The Lone Rider (I Must Ride Alone), by Jackson Gregory — First published in 1940, though I read the Popular Library paperback whose cover is shown above. This is a reasonably effective western …
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In This Corner…Dennis the Menace, by Hank Ketcham
I’ve long been a fan of Hank Ketcham’s creation, Dennis the Menace, and I pick up old collections of the strip whenever I get a chance. I bought a copy of this Fawcett Gold Medal paperback at a local book sale a couple years ago and got around to reading it earlier this year. The …
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