Reviews of books
My bedside table is piled high with books I want to read, some of which have been there for months, so…why do I find myself letting my fifth gay hockey romance so far this year jump the queue? Sports have … Continue reading LGBT+ Books: Thank You, I Prefer My Hockey Gay and Spicy
My favorite mystery novel of all time … but does it hold up on a Second Look? Continue reading Second Look: And Then There Were None
Once in a blue moon, if you’re lucky, a book hits all the right notes: you pick it up, immediately dive deep into its world, fall hard for its characters, and don’t look back. For me, Casey McQuiston’s debut novel … Continue reading LGBT Books: Someday My Prince Will Come – “Red, White & Royal Blue” and Modern Gay Fairytales
I remember when and where I fell in love with Victor LaValle. It was Thursday, October 26, 2017, I was standing in the massive Waterstones off Piccadilly Circus in London, and I was reading the introduction he’d written for the … Continue reading Lone Women, by Victor LaValle: Dread on the Range
There are enough books about the Beatles that they essentially constitute a distinct genre of their own in the bookstore—and a lucrative one even after more than 50 years. Like any genre, there are canonized texts that we devoted readers … Continue reading Late to the Party — The Beatles: The Authorized Biography by Hunter Davies (1968)
A Late to the Party review of Conan the Barbarian’s original stories, comics and movie. Continue reading Late to the Party: Conan the Barbarian
If you have been paying attention to the business of making video games over the last decade, you know Jason Schreier. During his time at Kotaku and Bloomberg, he has consistently catalogued the vicissitudes of game development through a dense network of trusted inner sources. Schreier’s Blood, Sweat, and Pixels (2017) is the definitive text on how video games are produced during the early 21st Century. Or at least it was until the publication of a follow-up, Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry, in May 2021. Where Blood, Sweat, and Pixels charted the logistics of game … Continue reading Review – Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry
As befits the novice nature of this column, I don’t feel particularly well-read in the areas of Science Fiction or Fantasy. I have only household names checked off my list, most of which could be considered rites of passage for … Continue reading Late to the Party: Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun
Welcome to a Late to the Party of a book that launched a franchise and invented the secret identity: Baroness Emma Orczy’s The Scarlet Pimpernel, adapted from her 1903 play and first published in 1905. Though there are countless earlier … Continue reading Late to the Party: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Content Warning: This essay contains graphic sexual content. Thomas Pynchon wrote Gravity’s Rainbow in the early 1970s while dividing his time between New York and Southern California. If you visited his room at Manhattan Beach, just blocks from the … Continue reading Late to the Party: Gravity’s Rainbow
Professor Elemental and his world of eccentricity has been mentioned on The Avocado before , he’s an MC, host, raconteur, orangutan enthusiast…. and now author. Tales Of Wrong is a collection of nine short stories that range from horror to humour in … Continue reading Book Review:’Professor Elemental’s Tales Of Wrong’ by Paul Alborough
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