Well October was a heck of a month...

...sorry for not posting anything in 4 weeks, yikes. Here's a catchup.

Everything I read in October, numbered according to their count for 2023.

128) Blacklisted By History—Evans. Incredibly detailed piece of nonfiction that exonerates Joe McCarthy of the filthy communist lies about him in high school textbooks all across the country. Ignore the Ann Coulter blurb on the cover, it’s fine without her glomming onto it

129) October Country—Bradbury. Beautiful and haunting collection of short horror stories by one of the best of his era. A few are repetitive, and a handful of them rise head and shoulders above the others.

130) Regia Occulta—Abnett. Covered here.

131) My Man Jeeves—Wodehouse. Classic piece of midcentury fiction, very wholesome and humorous, lovely prose.

132) Pluto 1—Urasawa/Tezuka. Graphic novel about robots, very cool, currently reading the second volume.

133) 12 Nights at Rotter House—Ocker. Worst book I’ve read all year, and I’ll never pick up another Ocker title again, screw this guy.

134) Haunted Knight—Loeb/Sale. I’ve never read the Long Halloween comics about Batman, and this is a prequel to the main series. It’s incredibly good though.

135) Storm Surge—Pardoe. Third installment in a cool aliens v mecha series. Reviewed it in this episode of BTBC.

136) Project Notebook—McCuiston. Men In Black style alien-hunting mystery, got a video coming about it.

137) The Will of the Many—Islington. Conceptually similar to RED RISING but not as good. Video coming.

138) My Brother’s Keeper—Powers. Love Powers, was bored with this title, I don’t know enough about the Bronte family to be interested.

139) Fork/Witch/Worm—Paolini. Three short stories set in the Eragon continuity. It was fine, didn’t get all that revved up about it but no problems.

140) Death Planet—LaPoint. VERY cool dinosaur book, covered it at the end of this episode of BTBC.

141) Frankenstein—Shelley. First time I’ve actually finished this book, incredible writing, better than any movie version of it out there. Also reviewed it in the previously linked BTBC episode.

142) Honor at Stake—Finn. Libertarian Catholic vampire hunter in New York. Pretty good, video inbound.

November is upon us and I’ve already found a handful of very good ones. Bring on more.