BOOKED SOLID

While I’m in list mode, here’s my annual list of books I read (as always, this doesn’t count individual short stories, articles, essays, reviews, comics, blogs, poems and the like):

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Dr. Who and the Giant Robot by Terrance Dicks

Praise of Folly by Erasmus

One For My Baby by Barry Graham

The Betrayers by Donald Hamilton

The Cool Man by W.R. Burnett

The Judas Goat by Robert B. Parker

Switch Bitch by Roald Dahl

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg

The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk

The Summer of Katya by Trevanian

The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins

The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy

After Worlds Collide by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer

Untouched By Human Hands by Robert Sheckley

Night of the Auk by Arch Oboler

BLOGOUT

Monster-of-the-Week will be on hiatus for a while, and bloggage in general is likely to be light in the coming weeks and months, while Your Humble Narrator attempts to make some progress on a couple of pressing projects.

If this leaves you tragically bereft of anything to read, let me suggest Barry Graham’s brief, badass novella One for My Baby, available on Amazon Kindle...

This noir quickie is violent, erotic, and capped, in its jolting climax, with an unexpectedly cheeky dash of black comedy. Set, as so often with Graham, in the bars and crashpads of Phoenix, this gripping tale is about as much fun as $2.99 can buy you these days (a dead-tree edition is also available, for a few bucks more).

Have a great summer everybody!