Reading List 5/3/2011-5/10/2011

Hey guys,
It's a new month! Let's be happy brothers and sisters. Apologies for being MIA last week, but I was busy, sick, neurotic, tired and there was a wedding...well I had a lot going on. And really not too much time to read. But this week I'm on it. Really. I swear.

Reading List 5/3/2011-5/10/2011
Books
Back When You Were Easier to Love by Emily Wing Smith-Terribly excited for this. I loved The Way He Lived, even though it hurt me physically with it's words.
Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware

Magazine
Library Journal

Comics
Got some back issues of Unwritten, Morning Glories, and Batgirl for fun.

Also looking forward to digging into Downton Abbey, and Mad Men Season 4. Also there's some small movie about a Norse God that I'll be seeing.

Have a great week! Book Slave.

Reading List 4/19/2011-4/26/2011

Hey folks,
It's rainy again! Seriously I am done with this. Done! I hope that you all are doing better than I. It's obviously stay at home and curl up with a book time. Brew some tea and just escape...this sounds like a plan.

Reading List 4/19/2011-4/26/2011
Books
Bossypants-Tina Fey folks! Tina Fey!
Return of the Dapper Men
Confederacy of Dunces-Hard Boiled Book Club is finally getting me to read this! More proof that book clubs are awesome. They just are.

Magazine
Four Four Two

Comics
Less of the stack of comics. I'll get there guys. Someday.

Books I Have Finished
Astonishing X-Men vol. 3
The Ticking

Have a great week! Book Slave.

Reading List 4/12/2011-4/19/2011

Hey folks,
Howse it rolling? Good I hope. Here's my plan for the next week.

Reading List 4/12/2011-4/19/2011
Books
Seven Soldiers of Victory
Dark Phoenix Saga
Astonishing X-Men vol. 3

Magazine
Four Four Two

Comics
The same stack of comics. Full of Shame.

Books I Have Finished
Flash: Rebirth
Essex County: Ghost Brothers
Wired April 2011
Astonishing X-Men vol. 2

Have a great week! Book Slave.

Reading List 4/5/2011-4/12/2011

Hey,
Apologies for last week but honestly I didn't know what I wanted to read. Sometimes it's hard to choose when I have a myriad of options. I read a wide variety of materials and it's hard when there's nothing that leaps out. That was last week for me. But this week I've got a plan. So there's one thing I've got going for me.

Reading List 4/5/2011-4/12/2011
Books
Flash: Rebirth
Essex County: Ghost Brothers

Magazine
Vanity Fair

Comics
A whole stack of comics folks. Nice.

Books I Finished
X-Men: Nation X
Astonishing X-Men vol. 1 & 2
Batman: Return of Bruce Wayne
Essex County: The Country Nurse

Also if I can pull it together this week I'll post a review of the new Jane Eyre film. (Preview tease: I liked it.) And I'll talk about my current obsession with the X-Men.

Have a great week! Book Slave.

Reading List 3/22/2011-3/29/2011

Hey guys,
Apologies for missing last week. It's a busy time for this wee lass. Also the internet is not always free and available to me.

Finished Books
Killing Shakespeare vol. 1 - Very Clever. Yet I did not like the art-style. Definitely for the lit types.
Daytripper - Pure Magic. This book is well worth all the praise that it has received. Do yourself a favor and read this. Now.
The Dead - My annual St. Patrick Days read. The last page still kills me. Oh Joyce.
Essex County vol. 1: Tales from the Farm - A reread for my Graphic Novel Book Club. Lemire is a wonderful purveyor of Canadian sadness.

Reading List 3/22/2011-3/29/2011
Books
The Moviegoer
Irredeemable vol. 4

Magazines
Four Four Two

Comics
More new comic goodness. Some Fantastic Four, Detective, and even Walking Dead. Should be good.

Have a great week! Book Slave.

Reading List 3/8/2011-3/15/2011

Hey folks,
In my neck of the woods we just got slammed with a snowpocalypse. Perfect reading weather right? I know what I'll be doing tonight.
So here's the plan this week.

Reading List 3/8/2011-3/15/2011
Books
Kill Shakespeare vol. 1-Looks very Fables-esque.
Daytripper

Comics
Green Lantern #62, Batman #707, New Avengers #8 & 9, Fables #102, Flash #9, Action Comics #897, Walking Dead #81-Finally some new stuff to read! It's been too long.

Finished
Superman Secret Origin

Have a great week! Book Slave.

Reading List 3/1/2011

Hey folks,
Yep I'm still alive. Don't worry. Between the new job, and the continuous piling on at my other job, it leaves very little time for this. However I'm not a quitter. The Reading List will go on! Even if it's just for me.

Here's a list of books I did finish last month. Trust me I still read.
The Outfit by Darwyn Cooke
Brightest Day Vol. 1
Unbearable Lightness
Short Cuts
Nightly News


Of these titles the best book I read this past month was The Outfit. For those who do not know, this is a sequel to Cooke's The Hunter last year. These graphic novel adaptations of Richard Stark's Parker novels continue to impress. If you are not reading these books then you are missing out on something special. They are Darwyn Cooke at the top of his game.

So here's the plan this week.

Reading List 3/1/2011
Books
Superman: Secret Origins
Shopgirl

Magazines
Vanity Fair-Still digging on that Hollywood Issue for March.

Have a great week! Book (and work) Slave.

Reading List 2/8/2011-2/15/2011

Hey folks,
Hope that y'all are having a good week. Here's my plan, reading-wise:

Reading List 2/8/2011-2/15/2011
Books
Nightly News by Jonathan Hickman
Shopgirl by Steve Martin
"A Case of Identity" by Arthur Conan Doyle - More Sherlock! Yeah.

Magazine
Entertainment Weekly

Comics
Diving back into the oldies stack. I've noticed that I am reading less new comics these days. I guess that happens when you drop Amazing Spider-Man, Superman, and Daredevil.

Also I'm fully enraptured with Doctor Who. If you only watch one episode of this series ever, you need to watch "Blink" from Season 3. It's incredible! This ep also stars Carey Mulligan, who is mind-blowingly fantastic. Do yourself a favor folks and watch it. You'll thank me.

Have a great week! Book Slave.

Reading List 2/1/2011-2/8/2011

Hey folks,
It's a horrible bitter cold world out there. Like Siberia or Chicago.
Here's my plan this week:

Reading List 2/1/2011-2/8/2011
Books
Shopgirl by Steve Martin -This is for the reading challenge at work. It's also been sitting on my TBR pile for a long time.
Nightly News by Jonathan Hickman
Heed the Thunder by Jim Thompson

Magazine
Entertainment Weekly

Comics
Batman & Buffy-An interesting combo I gotta say.

Also I'm full on obsessed with Doctor Who. Really. Where has this been all my life? Geektastic.

Have a great week! Book Slave.

Reading List 1/25/2011-2/1/2011

Hey folks,
It's a wonderful horrible snowpocalypse outside. It's like a shower of a fluffy white which I can safely observe from the warmish inside of the Hermitage. It's definitely hermit-weather. So here's the plan this week.

Reading List 1/25/2011-2/1/2011
Books
Heed the Thunder by Jim Thompson
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Magazines
Entertainment Weekly-(At Sundance they hand these out like candy.)

Comics
All caught up again, I will be diving back into the quarter bin pick ups. Yes it's back to classics like this:


I'm also gonna spend this week diving into Dr. Who and Wallander dvds, as well as hopefully some laid back time usage. It'll be good for the soul.

Have a great week! Book Slave.

Reading List 1-18 to 1-25

Hey folks,
Howse it going? It's delightfully warm and sunny this January. I like it. I like it a lot. You know what I don't like? These books piling around me. Need some motivation. Need some drive. Or I need to know when to give. It's a tough balance that I have trouble maintaining. Thank god I have some major reading/watching/being time piled up next week. So here's some of the plan for next week. (Of course I endeavor to do more, but here's a goal to pitch for)

Reading List 1-18 to 1-25
Books
Now and Here Again and Heed the Thunder-These Jim Thompson books are slow reads. I believe he gets leaner later on. At least I hope so.
And Then There Were None
"The Red-Headed League"-Oh Sherlock! Can't wait.

Comics
Oh the bi-weekly stack of comic goodness has arrived. Good to see some new Comics on deck.

Magazine
Four Four Two.

So I'll be relaxin' & Sundancing this week. Let's see what happens. Have a great week! Book Slave.

Reading List 1-11-2011 to 1-18-2011

Hello,
It's very chilly here in this salty cold desert. I'm really not kidding. Let's get going.

Reading List 1-11-2011 to 1-18-2011
Books
Now and On Earth
And Then There Were None-Agatha Christie is "cozy" right? I think I can make that argument.

Magazine
Four Four Two

Comics
Dakota North Investigations-Yeah this is another $0.25 purchase. I just can't believe this series ever existed.

And a wonderful array of DVDs which are in my possession. One even involves shirtless wolf-boys. (It's from the library folks. I'd never actually pay for that.)

Have a great week. Book Slave.

Reading List 1/4/2010-1/11/2011

Hey folks,
As always it's the first Tuesday of the year so here's a new Reading List post. It's a hope of mine that I can return to a push to get these books/magazines/comics read throughout the week. That's my intention anyway. So here we go.

Reading List 1/4/2010-1/11/2011
Books
DMZ vol. 1-This is a reread for the Graphic Novel Club program that I run
Now and On Earth by Jim Thompson-Part of my Jim Thompson Year.

Short Story
"A Scandal In Bohemia"-Part of the Sherlock Holmes Year

Magazine
Four Four Two

Comic
The Incredible Hulk #316-Picked up for a 25 cents. Should be fun eh?

So there it is. A New Year. It's amazing that I've done this so long, and that you, Constant Reader, are somehow still reading out there in cyberspace. Have a great week! Book Slave.

Reading List 12/21/2010-12/28/2010

Hello Constant Reader,
Here's the last Reading List post of the year. I just want to say thank you for those who have been sticking out during these lean times. Between computer and time issues it's been tough to keep up a regular posting schedule. However as we head to the end of 2010 there'll be those normal reflective posts that the end of the year seems to demand. So thanks for sticking around, I hope these scribblings bring a modicum of connection between us. And also I like to ramble about books. S0 there's that.

Reading List 12/21/2010-12/28/2010
Books
The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel- Felt like reading something epic. And it is my favorite story of all time.
The Final Solution

Magazine
Entertainment Weekly

Comics
Oh it's a lot. Fables #100, Amazing Spider-Man Big Time, Fantastic Four, Walking Dead. All the heavy hitters.

Looking forward to catching up on some reading now that my time has freed up a bit.

Have a great week! Book Slave.

Reading List 11/23/2010-11/30/2010

Hey Folks,
Getting back to normal around here at the Reading List. At first I was very busy with job #2 & then the internet decided to go wonky. The combination of these things have made me somewhat unreliable. I don't want to lie with you Constant Readers. However look for some more action around the Reading List as we come around to the end of the year.

Reading List 11/23/2010-11/30/2010
Books
Cowboy Ninja Viking
A Room of One's Own

Magazines
People-Folks I am human. Every once and awhile...

Comics
Spiderman #645-647

Also got some Bones Season 5, some Walking Dead episodes. And then there's THANKSGIVING!

Have a great week! Book Slave.

Reading List 10-26-2010 to 11-2-2010

Hello,
It has been a weekend of blowing, storming, cold fall weather here in my part of the universe. I love fall, but not this version of fall. However I guess beggars can't be choosers eh? Here's the plan for this week chums:

Reading List 10-26-2010 to 11-2-2010
Books
This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley-I've had this on the TBR for awhile but I thought it an appropriate read as I gear up for NaNoWriMo.
American Vampire by Scott Snyder-Season appropriate eh?
Hellboy: The Wild Hunt-Also season appropriate, however more importantly the library wants it back.

Magazine
Four Four Two

Comics
More backup issues. Whoohoo!

Have a great week! Book Slave.

Reading List 10/5 to 10/12

Hey folks,
I have gotten much reading done this weekend and thrown some books to the side at least for the moment. You'll see in the upcoming days.

However here's a plan for this week:
Reading List 10-5 to 10/12
Comics
A mega stack of comic goodness. Involves some ASM, some Fables, some Flash, some FF. Good times all around.

Books
Accidental Billionaires
New Avengers vol. 4
Battlefields vol. 4

Magazines
Four Four Two

Got some good stuff coming up this October. Have a great week! Book Slave.

Reading List 9/28-10/5

Hey folks,
I know: more of the same. However, future necessity is gonna require some changes coming up. Or some other lit may suddenly catch my attention. I must admit the wonderful transition from summer to fall as well as other insistent plans are making it rough. Focus is hard to maintain. I guess I should keep my eyes on those pesky goals I set for this year. Time for the final push eh?

Here's the plan this week:
Reading List 9/28-10/5
Books
Accidental Billionaires
The Town (formerly known as Prince of Thieves)
(Hey, these books are long. I'm working at it.)
Hellboy: The Great Hunt

Mags
Four Four Two October 2010

Comics
Some Amazing Spider-Man on tap along with some more comic goodness.

Alright look for some censorship commentary this week. More to come. Book Slave.

Reading List 9/21-9/28

Hey guys,
Has it really been two weeks? Woah. Sometimes it gets away from you.

Here's the plan:
Reading List 9/21-9/28
Books
Accidental Billionaires
The Town (formerly known as Prince of Thieves)

Mags
Rollingstone -Do you see that Mad Men cover? Gorgeous.

Comics
Some Amazing Spider-Man on tap along with some more comic goodness.

Look for some upcoming posts to fulfill your literary commentary needs for the rest of the month. Enjoy, Book Slave.

Reading List 9/7/2010-9/14/2010

Hello All,
Oh it’s fall and I feel the strange need to clean and improve. I finally put up new curtains (only took 3 years!), not to mention throwing out that office chair that became dangerous to sit in. I also feel the need to clear out some of these books I’ve got lying around. We’ll see what hell that well-intentioned thought brings.

Reading List 9/7/2010-9/14/2010
Books
The Last Olympian-AKA the last Percy Jackson book!
The Subteraneans-Feel like some beat literature in prep for Howl
Accidental Billionaires-In prep for The Social Network

Magazine
Four Four Two

Comics
All caught up! Time for some back issues.

That’s all folks! Have a great week! Book Slave.