Just finished the Monster Hunter Memoirs: Saints E-ARC, and I read Grunge and Sinners a while back. They’re interesting books: Larry Correia and John Ringo managed to create a hero who I like and want to succeed, while at the same time seeing him as an utter a*shole. That’s harder than it looks! But, well, Correia and Ringo. They give good pulp action.
And so, adieu to Theodore Rex.
Continue reading Book(s) of the Week: Monster Hunter Memoirs series.
Chosen because somebody on Twitter swore up and down that this AC Crispin Star Wars Extended Universe Han Solo trilogy was Absolutely Worth It; and then she narrated what happened to the point where I shrugged and said Fine. I’ll give it a try. There’s also supposedly a kind of Rogue One vibe going on here which sounded kind of appealing. Although, honestly? I mostly decided that I needed to read something that wasn’t like the stuff that I normally read. It’s not good to get in a rut, you know.
I’ll let you know how it goes.
The movie’s probably going to be a Movie of the Week when it finally comes out on DVD — The Death of Stalin is eminently suitable for the honor — but if the graphic novel version of “The Death of Stalin” is stupid then I don’t want to spend money on it. Of course, usually if the movie’s good then the thing that it was based on is at least not wretched, but that’s not a completely reliable rule. Anybody out there read the comics?
Can’t actually read Larry Correira’s and John Ringo’s latest yet. I mean, I can read Monster Hunter Memoirs: Saints, but I got other stuff to do first. This is kind of a stress week for me. For that matter; I kind of bought it as retail therapy. It’s also been kind of a stress month. Months.
Sorry; will stop whining now. Everything’s fundamentally fine. Honestly.
I’ll take “Things Moe Wants For Christmas” for $100, Alex.
The King in Yellow — Annotated Edition (deluxe hardback) https://t.co/1UgRaeUMck
— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) April 18, 2018
Oh, man, there’s gonna be some skulking and sneaking in this next installment! And maybe even an exotic spy from… I say too much! But it won’t happen without more pledges!
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Prologue
Chapter 1, Part 1
Chapter 1, Part 2
Chapter 1, Part 3
Chapter 1, Part 4
Chapter 1, Part 5
This one is admittedly speculative: I started reading Edmund Morris’s Theodore Rex the last time I was visiting my mom’s, and I forgot to take it with me when we left. It’s OK: my mom won’t mind. Sometimes I think she wants me to take half the house back down to Maryland. Anyway: I’ve heard good thing about Morris’s Theodore Roosevelt biographies, so I’m putting it up here so I won’t forget about it when I hit the library next week.
And so, adieu to Uncompromising Honor.
Concealed By The Cloud – Google Docs
Too long for microfiction, too short to be a short-short story, and I’ve said all that I want to say in five hundred words. Besides, I don’t do enough original fiction for this site anyway. Enjoy!
Air quotes deliberate: “If you’re a fan of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth novels, you’ll be excited to hear that there’s a new unpublished book that will be released soon called The Fall of Gondolin. The book was edited and revised by Tolkien’s son Christopher.” …or, more accurately: “Tolkien never actually wrote The Tale of Eärendel, but The Fall of Gondolin will contain Christopher’s best sketch of it based on his father’s outlines.”
OK, look.
Motor vehicle’s, veterinarian, kid’s math homework was designed by Satan — Sudoku fractions? Really? Really? — and I discovered that Eric Flint’s got something called Ring of Fire Press and that was when the giant destroying of time started. I’m a sucker for that series, I truly am. And before you ask: there’s a damned steep learning curve to surmount before I could write in that universe. I am perfectly content to let other people do the heavy research lifting on this one.
