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There is nothing better than discovering new and interesting books, that is why I love this particular meme. Because the only thing better than finding a new and interesting books is sharing a new and interesting book. These are my entries for today. Flashforward was featured on another reviewer’s blog (and I apologize profusely, I can’t remember whose) but the premise sounded so interesting I had to immediately put it on hold (as a matter of fact, it is waiting at the library for me right now, along side Dragons of the Hourglass Mage … I don’t know which to read first!). Did you know there was a sequel to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs? I didn’t. Now I do. Pickles to Pittsburgh is a great book. Look for the review on the blog later today. Mark Justice runs a blog titled I Was a Bronze Age Boy: The Ramblings of a Middle-Aged Comic Book, Crime Fiction and Pulp Fanatic where pretty much all he does is post cool and interesting covers to pulp novels, comic books and paperbacks. It’s a fun blog (Mark also hosts the Pod of Horror podcast, which I highly recommend if you are into the horror genre in all its many incarnation) and he recently featured Charles Beaumont’s Hunger. I was so intrigued by it, that when my sister-in-law wanted to know what book I wanted as a house-warming gift, I immediately pointed her in its direction (it is currently winging its way to me now *squeal!*). The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World is a book that I somehow missed when a friend of mine first reviewed it, but as I was going through his blog’s archives recently, I rediscovered it, and seeing that it has the infamous Harlan Ellison short story “A Boy and His Dog” I immediately added it to my Books To Buy pile. (As I think I’ve mentioned here before, “A Boy and His Dog” was a formative story reading experience for me in middle school … made me think that I wanted to do what Ellison did.) Finally, I came across the last book at my new local library, and while not strictly a “book” (i.e. no story) it is a great book of literary cartoons from The New Yorker and would be a welcome addition to any bibliophile’s library.
Flashforward by Robert Sawyer
Pickles to Pittsburgh: The Sequel to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett, illustrated by Ron Barrett
Hunger and Other Stories: A Collection of Violent Entertainments by Charles Beaumont
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World by Harlan Ellison
The New Yorker Book of Literary Cartoons edited by Bob Mankoff
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