12frogs book reviews
p>by Denis Johnson
ISBN: 0060975776
This is a collection of stories, which sometimes seem gritty for the sake of being gritty.
The stories are loosely connected, sharing the same first-person narrator. He’s a loser: an addict, shiftless, marginal, but he knows it. Some of the sense of “grittiness for the sake of grittiness” probably goes comes with the [...]
Nicola Griffith
ISBN: 0385503008
This book is a sequel to The Blue Place, and while I did like that book, I think this one is stronger.
The novel begins not long after the previous one left off, with Aud shattered in her grief. Since one of the things that annoyed me before was Aud’s superhuman competence, this was [...]
by Jhonen Vasquez
ISBN: 0943151244
Vasquez has created a disturbing, crude, and very funny book.
This book is a compilation: the first half is the collected issues of Squee, and the second half collects the Meanwhile and Wobbly Headed Bob, and Happy Noodle Boy. There are also a few guest-artist pages, and a couple of Filler Bunny pages. [...]
by James Kochalka
ISBN: 1891867008
James Kochalka has the ability to nail little details, and create an unshakeable (if fanciful) internal logic in his stories.
In this original book, Magic Boy thinks he quits his job and takes Kitty outside to to embark on a grand adventure in what turns out to be a major snowstorm. There [...]
by James Kochalka
Issue 1 Peanutbutter & Jeremy
Issue 2 Peanutbutter & Jeremy: The Flibbledibble File
Issue 3 Peanutbutter & Jeremy: Nest and Window Exchange
I had originally decided to write only reviews of books here, as this is after all a book log. Then I read Peanut Butter & Jeremy and decided that the rest of the [...]
by Greg Bear
ISBN: 0765301075
What would happen if society had an inkling–or proof–that the world was going to end, soon?
That is the premise explored in this novel. Written as more of a page-turning thriller than philosophical treatise it still examines some Big Questions, albeit with a broad brush.
While I did find the friendship between Arthur [...]
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