Wednesday, September 4, 2024

August 24 Reading

 Back to work this month.

  1. NYer of 8/8/22. Poem by Simon Armitage consisting of anagrams of "Simon Armitage": "I am a Song Timer. /I am Sir Megaton./ Against Memoir I am."
  2. NYer of 6/27/22.  There's a half-million dollar hand-made mattress hand-stitched in Sweden. Drake has one.
  3. The Weird of the White Wolf by Michael Moorcock. Mostly earlier tales rounded out with a couple new ones. 
  4. NYer of 8/5/2024. Long true-crime story on murders at Whitehouse Farm in U.K.
  5. X-Men/Fantastic Four: 4X by Chip Zdarsky and Dodsons. I really enjoyed this despite the lazy interior art. But they nailed family faces; kids really do look like different combos of Reed and Sue. 
  6. Search and Destroy by Atsushi Kaneko. Fine set up (cyborg looking to recover 48 different human parts) but not enough to keep going. 
  7. NYer of 2/7/22. Read while traveling
  8. Bad Dreams by Tessa Hadley. Set of exiquisite Munro-esque stories about either British girls growing up in the 60s ("The Abduction," "Bad Dreams") or contemporary British women of a certain age ("Flight," Under the Sign of the Moon"). 
  9. NYer of 8/12/24.Teen RFK, Jr., tripping on acid, runs into picture of father uncle and Jesus praying. Bad trip ensues. 
  10. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury. Best stories= 1)The Veldt 2)The Long Rain 3)Kaliedescope 4)Rocket Man. Worst= title story; Marionettes, Inc.; The Rocket.
  11. The Nation of August 2024. Rae Armantrout's "Witch": "Cousin Rust,/with your look of blood| and sunset,//In almost in love/with the lace you've made/of metal"

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