Category: Literacy 2021
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Literacy 2021: Recap
Assessing my attempt to rekindle (see what I did there?) my reading habits
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Literacy 2021: Book 24: Eternals
Neil Gaiman and John Romita, Jr’s 2006 update of Jack Kirby’s The Eternals is exactly that.
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Literacy 2021: Book 23: The Eternals
A collection of Jack Kirby’s last attempt at creating a comic book pantheon
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Literacy 2021: Book 22: Artificial Condition
Second in the series of books about a rogue Murderbot that’s indestructible yet socially awkward
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Literacy 2021: Book 21: Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut’s unstuck-in-genre masterpiece about the bombing of Dresden and also about human lifespans and our own perception of them
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Literacy 2021: Book 20: Circe
or, “Defying Odyssey,” Madeline Miller’s wicked re-interpretation of the story of literature’s first witch
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Literacy 2021: Book 19: Goldenrod
An excellent poetry collection by Maggie Smith
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Literacy 2021: Book 18: Longitude
Dava Sobel’s account of the efforts to calculate longitude at sea
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Literacy 2021: Book 17: The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires
This horror novel by Grady Hendrix is a lot better than its premise might suggest
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Literacy 2021: Book 16: Sex Criminals
Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky’s comic series about people whose orgasms stop time.
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Literacy 2021: Book 15: Devolution
Max Brooks applies his World War Z style to Sasquatches instead of zombies
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Literacy 2021: Book 14: The Caledonian Gambit
A cold-war sci-fi novel by Dan Moren