Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Reading List
Satchel Paige (as told to David Lipman) Maybe I'll Pitch Forever - I think this is the best work of fiction/non-fiction that I've read in the last four months. It deals primarily with Satchel Paige's exploits pitching in five decades and secondarily with the Negro leagues. There's a lot of 'telling' which belies the great amount of showing that Paige cleverly includes. It's probably one of the better baseball biographies I've read, yes even better than the legendary Kelly Gruber biography.
Chester Brown Louis Riel A Comic Strip Biography - I've read this before but not as a complete work.
Mark Shainblum and John Dupuis Arrow Dreams : An Anthology of Alternate Canadas - It's essentially a 'what if' literary anthology dealing with key moments in Canadia history. There's stores dealing with Louis Riel escaping the hangman's noose and the British being defeated on the Plains of Abraham. I had only read one of the stories before, dealing with Paul Henderson not scoring the winning goal in the 72 summit series, and had thought it had been quite different. The way I remembered the story was that it dealt with Wayne Gretzky being a Canada's national curling hero. It didn't mention curling and it barely mentionned Gretzky, my memory sucks.
David Greenberger - Duplex Planet Illustrated great cover by Daniel Clowes. It also includes a flexi disc that I have yet to listen to. It's a pretty interesting take on Duplex Planet, but it doesn't surpass it. It works best in a supplementary fashion rather than as a stand alone work. Read more about Duplex Planet here.
Paul Auster (w/ Paul Karasik & David Mazzucchelli) City of Glass Illustrated
- This is simply brilliant. Definitely a worthy addition to the ranks of graphic novels like Eric Drooker's 'Blood Song' and Art Spiegelman's 'Maus'. I was on a bit of a Paul Auster kick a few weekends ago and picked up this and 'Locked Room' when I was in Fredericton. A much better written review of it can be found here
Satchel Paige (as told to David Lipman) Maybe I'll Pitch Forever - I think this is the best work of fiction/non-fiction that I've read in the last four months. It deals primarily with Satchel Paige's exploits pitching in five decades and secondarily with the Negro leagues. There's a lot of 'telling' which belies the great amount of showing that Paige cleverly includes. It's probably one of the better baseball biographies I've read, yes even better than the legendary Kelly Gruber biography.
Chester Brown Louis Riel A Comic Strip Biography - I've read this before but not as a complete work.
Mark Shainblum and John Dupuis Arrow Dreams : An Anthology of Alternate Canadas - It's essentially a 'what if' literary anthology dealing with key moments in Canadia history. There's stores dealing with Louis Riel escaping the hangman's noose and the British being defeated on the Plains of Abraham. I had only read one of the stories before, dealing with Paul Henderson not scoring the winning goal in the 72 summit series, and had thought it had been quite different. The way I remembered the story was that it dealt with Wayne Gretzky being a Canada's national curling hero. It didn't mention curling and it barely mentionned Gretzky, my memory sucks.
David Greenberger - Duplex Planet Illustrated great cover by Daniel Clowes. It also includes a flexi disc that I have yet to listen to. It's a pretty interesting take on Duplex Planet, but it doesn't surpass it. It works best in a supplementary fashion rather than as a stand alone work. Read more about Duplex Planet here.
Paul Auster (w/ Paul Karasik & David Mazzucchelli) City of Glass Illustrated
- This is simply brilliant. Definitely a worthy addition to the ranks of graphic novels like Eric Drooker's 'Blood Song' and Art Spiegelman's 'Maus'. I was on a bit of a Paul Auster kick a few weekends ago and picked up this and 'Locked Room' when I was in Fredericton. A much better written review of it can be found here
# posted by Die Brucke @ 2:24 PM 
