2016-03-19 18:53
To be honest I didn't hear too much music this past year, but here goes:My Top 10 Albums of 2011 (alphabetically):Austra - Feel It BreakBeirut - The Rip TideBraids - Native SpeakerDanger Mou… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
4. Super Heroes: A Modern Mythology by Richard Reynolds - This one kept popping up in the bibliographies of Comic and Super-hero studies. A short book which is probably the guy's thesis, a… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
5. Desperadoes by Ron Hansen - A western that I have meant to read for years. My Dad gave me my first Ron Hansen book and I thank him for it everytime I think of him. Hansen's first novel… Read More
2011-12-14 06:00
6. Super Black by Adilifu Nama - I stumbled upon this book while browsing Facebook one day, saw one of my favourite comic characters and knew I had to read it. Nama, a professor of Africa… Read More
2011-12-14 05:54
7. Start Shooting by Charlie Newton - Picked up and advanced copy of this Chicago noir. Had high hopes of a good pot-boiler, but although this started out with promise of guns, gangs, drugs… Read More
2011-12-14 05:44
9. The Coast Road by John Brady - I fell in love with the Matt Minogue mysteries a long time ago and probably still read them out of habit more than anything, but they always seem to hit t… Read More
2011-12-14 05:38
8. Sum by Dave Eagleman - Book Club Pick! Forty-some odd visions of the afterlife. Some worked, but a lot didn't. It is the kind of book that makes you go Hmmm, but doesn't really stick with… Read More
2011-11-14 15:14
10. Agent X by Noah Boyd - Needing a bit of an escape and not being ready for another Lee Child I went back to Noah Boyd and his ready-for-screen thrillers starring Steve Vail, former FBI su… Read More
2011-10-21 16:41
11. On Bicycles: 50 Ways the New Bike Culture Can Change Your Life edited by Amy Walker - I put in the subtitle, because I need you to know that this book is not 50 ways the new bike culture… Read More
2011-10-21 16:26
12.Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan - The everything nominated Canadian novel tells the tragic story of jazz band in Hitler's Berlin and occupied Paris. Well written, but not showy, it really… Read More
2011-10-21 16:18
13. Blue-Eyed Devil by Robert B. Parker - I am going to miss Robert Parker. I never thought I would have written those words, but there is something so entertaining about about his sparse pr… Read More
2011-09-25 18:20
14. The Icelander by Dustin Long - Bookclub Book! And boy was it too cute by half. A twee literary pastiche of a whodunit, it just doesn't really work. Some funny and/or good ideas, but noth… Read More
2011-09-25 18:09
15. Barnacle Love by Anthony De Sa - A first novel about the Portugese immigrant experience in Canada, it has sat on my shelf for quite some time. A lot of references to Newfoundland which I… Read More
2011-09-25 18:03
16. Split Image by Robert B. Parker - I came to Robert Parker very late in his career. The man had written over 60 books upon his death and was known as one of the kings of American crime fi… Read More
2011-09-25 17:53
17. The Great American Hot Dog Book by Becky Mercuri - Boy oh boy, do I love a good hot dog. Saw this book and had to buy it 'cause it was cheap. 150 pages of history, recipes and notes on v… Read More
2011-09-25 17:46
18.Supergods by Grant Morrison - I used to love Grant Morrison's comics and then I didn't and then I did again. This is part memoir, part history, and part treatise. He has some weird ideas… Read More
2011-08-23 17:13
20. The Enemy by Lee Child - Vacation Book! And No. 8 in the Jack Reacher series. Something light for the trip. It is a flashback book, showing us an episode in Reacher's past. Pretty goo… Read More
2011-08-23 17:10
19. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline - Vacation Book! If you grew up playing video games in the 80s this the book for you. If you know what a TRS-80, an Atari 800, or Zork is then this is… Read More
2011-08-23 16:57
21. The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril by Paul Malmont - I love pulp. This is probably one of the truest things said about me. I have owned this book for years and finally got around to readi… Read More
2011-07-29 02:45
22.The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum - Bookclub book! Well researched and well written short history of the birth of New York City's Medical Examiner's Office in the 20s and 30s. Blum… Read More
2011-07-18 03:35
23. Who Dares Wins by Chris Ryan - How do you describe a thriller that isn't thrilling? Plotting that harkens back to the worst of 80s straight to video actioners. Or as Luke would say, "… Read More
2011-07-14 01:01
24. Come Thou, Tortoise by Jessica Grant - This is one of those books that has been floating around me for a couple of years. A staff member recommended it to me. And then my Dad recommended… Read More
2011-07-08 00:54
25. Why AC/DC Matters by Anthony Bozza - A short book, almost an article, by Rock journalist Bozza on the significance of AC/DC. It is fun and a pretty good argument as to why they are the… Read More
2011-07-04 00:48
26. Death of a Lesser Man by Thomas Rendell Curran - The third in the Eric Stride mysteries by Newfoundland author Curran. I read the other two, thought the first was pretty good. The second… Read More
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