February 2007 :: Print Reviews
Print Reviews
Feeling Very Strange
Ian Koss dives headfirst into this new volume of writings in the surrealist SF subgenre known as slipstream. and makes sure to dodge the fragments of science fiction purists' exploding heads all around him.
Hope to Die: A Memoir of Jazz and Justice
Scott Adams is moved by Verdi "Woody" Woodward's wrenching memoir of a life torn between heroin, music and crime. Now that's a life.
Wild Years: The Music and Myth of Tom Waits
Tom Waits for no one... and he's not talking either. Which might give a lesser biographer pause, but as Matthew Moyer happily discovers, Jay Jacobs is more than up to the task.
Krypton Companion
Only Braniac could keep tally on all the twists, turns, allies and villains that Superman has encountered in this half-century of comic history. Make that Braniac and the people behind this tome, as Matthew Moyer discovers.
Nobody Likes You
Respected journalist Marc Spitz writes the first authorized look into the "turbulent life, times and music of Green Day." Jen Cray reports on what she deems one of the most entertaining music biographies ever written.
Owly: The Way Home & The Bittersweet Summer
Children's librarian Keith Hayes knows that Owly is a must-have, not only because of the emotional range that Andy Runton brings to the "funny animal" genre, but because it's one of the few books that he and his young daughter can agree on.
South of the Pumphouse
Linda Tate is moderately entertained by bassist Les Claypool's debut novel and yet... don't give up the day job.
The Worst Case Scenario Almanac - History
Carl F Gauze fears that the authors of the Worst Case Scenario series may have gone to the well one too many times. That doesn't mean, however, that he didn't bookmark the section on Wagon Circling. You can never be too careful.
