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Spider-Man Noir
By David Hine and Fabrice Sapolsky
Illustrated by Carmine Di Giandomenico
Superheroes in re-imagined worlds don’t necessarily have a proud tradition. For every smashing success (Frank Miller’s Dark Knight Returns, 1986; Mark Waid’s Kingdom Come, 1996), there are many silly, commercially driven failures. Hine, who has been in the business since 1980 with popular characters such as the X-Men and the Teen Titans, and his collaborator, Sapolsky, score a resounding success here.
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The Back Page: Headlines from the Onion
By Bill Ott
It’s hard to get through a day without hearing someone bemoaning the death of newspapers. As our collective interest in the news shrinks, however, we have become addicted to something else: satire about the news and how it’s reported. We may not care to read or watch the news, but we love to see it ridiculed.
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Readers’ Advisory Corner: Gary Warren Niebuhr’s Caught Up in Crime
By Neil Hollands
Niebuhr is an experienced hand at writing readers’-advisory materials for mystery fans. Here he turns to crime fiction and true-crime books that are not mysteries. His first chapter focuses on collection development, the second on the history of crime writing. Crime writing has not yet been divided into well-recognized subclassifications like the mystery genre, but Niehbuhr gives this task a good effort, with chapters on “Professional Criminals,” different ways of being “Caught Up in Crime” (as a victim, for example), and “Criminal Detectives.” Several hundred books are annotated in these chapters.
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Booklist Online Chat Room: New and Improved
By Mary Ellen Quinn
Regular Booklist Online users have probably observed that we recently made some significant enhancements to our site. The changes are most noticeable on the home page, but they’re found on other pages as well. In planning these changes, we had several goals mind.
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She Reads . . . Faith
By Kaite Mediatore Stover
Faith-Finding Mission
ReaderGal has been pondering faith lately. Faith is frequently lost and found. It is sought, contemplated, and encouraged. It can be had, but can it be kept? ReaderGal looks for guidance from the following women who have struggled with the same questions.
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He Reads . . . Faith
By David Wright
The Sacred and the Profane
I’ve always enjoyed reading about faith, or, more accurately, I like to read about doubt. It’s the wrestling with doubt that makes most accounts of faith so compelling for all of us poor sinners. Something about combining the sacred and the profane adds relish to both.
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Put It On the List by Kristen Darbyshire
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Lynn: There is nothing more irritating than pouring a bowl of cereal and discovering there is no milk. Not only is the chicken family in Put It On the List (Penguin/Dutton 2009) out of milk, they are also out of syrup, diapers, cheese, jelly and, worst of all, toilet paper. Something has to [...] |
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Turkey Time
Posted by: Barbara
It’s almost Thanksgiving, so everyone is cooking turkey or tofurky. Kids have to do reports about what was served at the first Thanksgiving dinner and someone lost Grandma’s recipe for sweet potato pie. Working the desk can make you hungry these days! The gorgeous new Larousse Gastrnomique and the ever faithful Joy of Cooking will [...] |
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Food for Thought, or Restaurant in Peace
Posted by: Neil Hollands
One of my groups goes out to eat after each meeting. We have to vacate our library meeting room by 9 p.m. It makes for a late meal, but by continuing at the restaurant, we turn a rushed evening into a leisurely event. This practice has three major side benefits. First, if off-topic conversations start during the [...] |
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Short attention span audiobooks: 8 minute quickies from iMinds
Posted by: Mary
Got a minute? Give a listen! The six-month-old Australian digital publisher iMinds enters the US via partnerships with Audible, iTunes, LearnOutLoud and OverDrive, with the goal of making your wait time more productive. Offering eight minute overviews of informational topics ranging from Flash Mobs to Behavioral Economics, the company is carving out a niche in [...] |
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Weeklings: Blyton, Palin, F-Bombs, and Bad Sex
Posted by: Keir
In regard to last week’s query, yes, I did forget something. I forgot flarf.
So Enid Blyton, author of those fabulous Famous Five books I so adored as a callow youth, wasn’t much of a mum (”Why Enid Blyton’s greatest creation was herself,” by Garry Jenkins (Telegraph):
The drama reveals how Enid exploited even her own family to [...] |
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