Weekly Reader — July 20 – 26, 2025

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 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 …