Posts Tagged ‘new weird’

New Finds, Reading Update, and Suggestions.

June 30th, 2009

5136OzEnvhL._SL160_I have been reading and looking at books since the last time I posted.  Sometimes I just don’t have the inspiration to write about books.

But in order to make sure that all those tens of people that visit this blog semi-regularly know that I haven’t left, I’m just giving a quick update.

I have a few books going at the moment and I should finish them up in the next week so I’ll post a reading update when I get through with them.  My collecting has slowed down, mostly because of time, and being that it is summer, I spend most of my time at my shore house reading and not thinking about finding a book, other than to read.

Right now I am finishing up reading Trinity: v. 1 and Monster.  I started reading Trinity as a weekly comic, but stopped picking it up.  I figured it would become one of those series that I would rather read as a collected trade.  Monster I found while browsing in Barnes and Noble the other week.  Never heard of the author but the jacket copy caught my attention as did the opening paragraph.  I’m enjoying it so far. He reminds me of Christopher Moore a bit.  I also picked up Tachyon’s Michael Moorcock collection and I think I might pick it up next since I haven’t read Moorcock and I hear he is quite good. What I would love to find is his steampunk novels.

51xh3l4iXbL._SL500_AA240_I guess I’m just really looking to explore new authors in weird fiction.  Think China Mieville and Tim Powers and similar authors.  If you have any suggestions I would appreciate it.

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Should I Put the Time Aside?

February 24th, 2009

Every time I walk through my local book shop I run across the Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake. It is a huge volume and will take a good deal of time to get through.  I think Jeff Vandermeer added it the list of works to read in the Steampunk anthology he edited.  Or was it the The New Weird.  I think it was the Steampunk.  Anyway, I was wondering if it is worth getting into and investing the time.

Any thoughts?

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Am I losing the Edge?

January 12th, 2009

I decided not to run today at lunch so I could go to the local Barnes and Noble (mostly because my knee is a little tweaked, I’ll be up and running tomorrow).
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