Negative Space: books
- All Mimsy book reviews
- I have now added all of the old book reviews from the earlier Mimsy to the new Mimsy. These are all of the books I’ve reviewed, in alphabetical order.
- The Case for Books in 2015
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In 2015, I read a lot of books… and bought a lot more. That’s not a sustainable market plan.
- Comic Book Recommended Reading
- A list and description of the best comic books in the world. Or at least in the United States.
- Horror Houses
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What to do when your house hates you? These movies will help you relate.
- The Mimsy Top Twenty
- Of all the books I’ve reviewed, these are the ones I most recommend taking a look at. They’re lighthearted, serious, deep, scathing, and adventurous, not necessarily in the expected ways.
- My Year in Books: 2021
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From Louis l’Amour to slavery to H. Rider Haggard, it’s been a very good year in books.
- My Year in Books: 2022
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From Hoplites to Venice… California, this has been a year in books filled with war, evil, and the dehumanization of man. But it’s also been a year of high adventure, magic, and larger-than-life heroes.
- My Year in Books: 2023
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It’s been a slower year in books than previous ones, but it was still a year of fantasy in the past, in the future, and across time, as well as an unplanned foray into people doing the impossible and changing the world.
- Neon Alley Recommended Reading
- The best books about the Internet.
- Notes on Prohibition
- These are notes that I took while researching a “recreational drugs” comic book. These books also informed all of the writing that I have done for Strange Bedfellows and the Prohibition archive.
- The Year in Books: 2018
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Have I got some recommendations for you…
- The Year in Books: 2019
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2019 was a great year for reading old books.
- The Year in Books: 2020
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What did 2020 have to offer in books?
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- The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition• (hardcover)
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This fantastic book contains the text to both Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. But it also contains a side-bar on many pages filled with notes about what phrases meant at the time Dodgson wrote them, and sometimes what Tenniel’s drawings depict. Would you recognize an eel-trap if you saw one today?
Gardner also reproduces the originals of poems that Dodgson satired, such as the much more boring originals of “Speak roughly to your little boy” and “You are old, father William”. (Martin Gardner)
