. 049) Big Nate: In the Zone by Lincoln Peirce , finished June 23 I'm not sure I've ever bumped into Nate in the newspaper fu...

. I'm only listening to her new album through for the first time now as I'm writing this post (correction: the first song's j...

. 043) Rachel Rising 1: The Shadow of Death by Terry Moore, finished June 16 Praise BAC for introducing me to another marvelous comi...

. TSA: Turn on your laptop. Fellow: Can't. It's broken. TSA: Why would you fly with a broken laptop? Fellow: My brother fix...

. I heard a snippet of Sarah Dooley on NPR one morning as I was lying in bed still grasping sleep with both hands. But what I heard was s...

. Back in 2005, back when this blog was still called the apparently inscrutable Tehachapiltdownman, I posted this : There is something I...

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. 039) Screwed by by Tyler Kirkham, Keith Thomas, David Miller; finished June 3 Tyler gave me a copy of this trade collection when I ...

. 035) Of Many Hearts and Many Minds: The Mormon Novel and the Post-Utopian Challenge of Assimilation by Scott Hales, finished May 22 ...

. Doctorow 's book had so many people calling it both IMPORTANT and thrilling that I felt obliged to pick it up. Which I did, from th...

. Though a minority, the prophets of the Church in Book of Mormon times were always Nephites. This may have been a contributing reason to ...

. 032) Mormon X: Confessions of a Latter-day Mutant by Ben Christensen, finished May 8 This roman à clef slash allegory about a young...

. In between visiting relations, I will spend this weekend's Saturday afternoon speaking on three topics: Representations of Mormons ...

. 028) Road to Bountiful by Donald S. Smurthwaite, finished April 7 See review at AMV. A couple complaints that didn't fit ther...

. In theaters: Amazon.com Widgets Inside Llewyn Davis ( 2013 ): Unquestionably a well made movie. I don't get the point of the b...

. When Lady Steed and I first moved to the Bay Area (moved back, in her case) and became [re]acquainted with her teenaged soundtrack, Live...

. 021) Love Letters of the Angels of Death by Jennifer Quist, finished March 14 a I was scheduled to go under the knife today, but i...