2021

I'm trying to read 104 books this year. Here are some thoughts about the ones I read over the last two weeks: Artificial Condition, Why I Write, God Lives in St. Petersburg, The Hobbit, and Reform or Revolution.

Bill’s Book Blog, 1/23/2021

I'm trying to read 104 books this year. Here are some thoughts about the one I read last week: American Supernatural Tales.

Bill’s Book Blog, 1/16/2021

I'm trying to read 104 books this year. Here are some thoughts about the ones I read last week: Good Omens and Stuff White People Like.

Bill’s Book Blog, 1/9/2021

I’m trying to read 104 books this year. Here are some thoughts about the ones I read last week! (Well, since 1/1/2021). The Dark Forest, All Systems Red, Rules of Civility, and Pitch Dark.

The Silliest Take of the Week: 9/22/2019

Welcome back to the Silliest Take of the Week, the thing I do most Sundays instead of the mounting pile of dishes in the sink!

The Silliest Take of the Week: 9/8/2019

Welcome back to the Silliest Take of the Week, my (mostly) weekly attempt to avoid pulling out my hair in horror at the sight of the silly things people say on the Internet.

The Silliest Take of the Week: 9/1/2019

After a few weeks in which either the Takes were insufficiently Silly or I was insufficiently rested, here is a week which delivered bounties.

Archive: Banner Saga 3 Review

The world is ending, and the Saga will end with it, one way or the other.

Archive: If The Skull Spider Monster That Appears at 39 Seconds in Devil Daggers were your boyfriend

If The Skull Spider Monster That Appears at 39 Seconds in Devil Daggers were your boyfriend, a lot of things would be different.

A Complete and Separate Thing

There’s a paragraph in Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House that stubbornly lodged itself in my craw a little more than a year ago, and I have been unable to unstick it since.