Booky Bloggy Post

Since I’ve been writing reviews, I always try to improve what I do. My aim when writing said review is to convey my thoughts about the book I’m reviewing as lucidly and, perhaps more importantly, as honestly as possible. Providing a balance between addressing what I think important and rambling for too long is a tenuous act. Larry, who often provides good fodder for thought on such things, has an interesting post today about reviewing books that are re-thinkings / re-imaginings / pastiches / homages to earlier works. This is especially timely since I just finished Peter David’s fine Peter Pan pastiche, Tigherheart.

A new Web page is now up for the Neil Gaiman/Dave McKean’s The Graveyard Book. Some of McKean’s illustrations are highlighted and they look awesome. McKean is so versatile and can put together great images in a so many formats. Right, next thing I’ll say is that the sun rises everyday.

Some Bloggy Notes:

• Aidan recently celebrated his first blogoversarry.
  
• It isn’t exactly a new blog, but it is new to me: io9. The editors are knowledgeable and the contributors are top notch, including those with whom I am most familiar: Jeff and Ann VanderMeer and Graeme McMillan (he of the great retired comic blog Fanboy Rampage). Along with SF Signal, io9 are probably two of the best genre collective-blogs.
  
• Realms of Speculative Fiction is another recently begun group blog that mainly consists of book reviews and bookish thoughts. One of the members of the SFFWorld forums is part of the group.
  
• Another SFFWorld forum member/admin has a good blog – James L’s Speculative Horizons.