Comics
First Knife #1 - Don’t really like the artwork, but the use of
the Meso-America setting is cool.
Priya’s Mask – India’s woman hero faces the pandemic
and people who stupidly refuse to wear a mask.
Priya and the Wolves - This installment makes good use of Red Riding
Hooda s well as the Covid 19 pandemic.
Falcon Take Flight – the weak points of this
collected editions are the supernatural elements.
Captain America: Sam Wilson Vol 1 – Apparently Misty
Knight dresses in lingerie to fight Hydra.
So I stopped reading.
Beasts of Burden Occupied Territory – a good start to
another story featuring everyone’s favorite magical drugs.
MCMLXXV #3 – Sad to say this looks like the end to the series about a taxi
driver fighting the forces of evil
Jim Henson’s Storyteller Sirens 1-4 – Those four issues
retell stories about mermaids and sirens.
Well done and illustrated. The fourth
issue is a tad darker than the normal.
Jim Henson’s Storyteller Ghosts 1-4 – These are
darker tales but still up to the Storyteller standard.
Fatale #1 – I don’t usually go for Noir, but this was
good.
Exosisters #1 – Nice little comics about two maybe
sisters.
The Banks – Roxanne Gay’s story of three generations
of women pulling off a heist suffers from a weak plot and weak art.
Sea of Thieves #1 Champion of Souls - Freebie comic origin story about a pirate
Cookbook
Kitchens of Middle Earth – Recipes adapted with a
Tolkien twist. Not too bad.
History
A Black Woman’s History of the United States – a good
history, well worth reading.
Audio Books
Curse of Oak Island – This history of the famous
island in Canada. Compelling.
Fiction
Tarka the Otter
– this novel about an otter is a more realistic Bambi. You have been warned.
Poetry
The Hill We Climb – Gorman’s poem from Biden’s inauguration
Remember Body - The Little Black Classics Penguin edition of
Cavafy is excellent.
Historical Fiction
The Twice Born – The first volume in Pauline Gedge’s King’s
Man series. Good historical fiction
set in ancient Egypt. Read Gedge now.
The House of Dreams – This book covers the Harem Conspiracy
in ancient Egypt and as good
Mystery
The Maidens – Too much info dumping ruins what could
have been a good mystery.
Memoirs
Diary of Samuel Pepys Vol 1 – excellent and readable
historical documents. He knows someone
named Dr. Whores.
Fantasy and Science Fiction
Warlock Holmes and the Finality Problem – C S
Denning’s Warlock Holmes series is an excellent and wonderful mash up of
Sherlock Holmes and fantasy. Garston’s
narration is bloody brilliant.
From A Certain Point of View: Empire Strikes Back –
this follow up to the Star Wars collection is not as good as the first volume,
but still a worthwhile read.
Folklore and Fairy Tales
Swedish Fairy Tales by Herman Hofberg – This old collection is
quite interesting. My edition is the
1896 edition and has those wonderful illustrations
Stories from Canada by Dulch – this is part of the
Dulch reader’s collection. For a book
published in the 60s it has a large amount of First People’s stories as well as
seem to try to get the tradition clothes correct.
Canada’s Haunted Coast by Vernon Oickle – This
collection of ghost folklore from the Maritimes includes a chapter on Oak
Island
Hauntings of the Hudson River Valley – this little
book is a case history of famous hauntings in the Hudson Valley.
Travel
Educational Guide to Walt Disney World – while this
kindle book was a bit outdated, it does include several good resources.
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