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Fraser’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Fraser’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Fraser A. Sherman
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Spiders, sheep and young lovers solving mysteries: TV and Movies
SPIDER-NOIR (2026) stars Nicholas Cage as Ben Reilly, a 1930s PI who once fought crime and injustice as the Spider, with powers acquired from Great War mad science experiments (he played an animated version of the same character in Into the Spider-Verse). After he failed to save his great love, Ben gave up superheroics for the life of a down-at-heels PI. Now, though things are changing as more sup
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Fraser’s Recent Updates
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Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
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| The perennial risk in writing biography is that many people, even famous people, don't have interesting lives. As portrayed here, Gorey's life isn't terribly interesting. In fairness, it's not usually the author's fault if he goes into more detail ab ...more | |
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| As usual, Father Brown encounters mysteries and tackles them with a mix of philosophy and his understanding of human nature. I particularly like his comments on vigilantes in "The Arrow of Heaven" and the killer's motives for a seemingly irrational a ...more | |
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| A rage-inducing book. Good, but watching the shitbag judges Michael Conahan and Mark Ciaravella screw up young lives for their own profit ... jeez, they're evil. Using their clout in their Pennsylvania county they shut down the juvie detention center ...more | |
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| Most of the unenthused reviews here focus on Jacoby's criticism of right-wingers and her pointing out they've successfully defined "intellectual elite" to exclude conservatives. While I skew liberal (I agree with her assessment) I still found the boo ...more | |
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I ought to hate this. Stereotypes of Southerners as ignorant and clueless backwoods types annoy the heck out of me, but here it's so charming and goofy it works. This collection is the first couple of years. The stories of swamp dwelling Pogo the pos ...more |
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Like most my Silver Age comics reviews, the rating is very much YMMV. This incarnation of Hawkman was a law enforcement officer from the planet Thanagar. Crime was a recent development there so after tracking a criminal to Earth, he and his wife Hawk ...more |
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Three girls — angry and rebellious, young genius, high-pressure overachiever — get invited first to a prestigious boarding school for STEM, then to the Curie Society, a secret research organization for women. Great concept, fair execution, though obvi ...more |
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There's a great scene in this TPB where Artemis demands Diana prove herself by fighting. Diana refuses to fight for no reason; she will, however, fight to protect a helpless tortoise. This has several old villains, Veronica Cale, Dr. Poison and Clea o ...more |
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| As I write and blog about gender issues and Galloway is apparently one of the current gurus, figured I'd read his book rather than just excerpts I'd encountered. I find a lot of his conclusions about the problems of boys/men dubious: if boys are fall ...more | |
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GR have avg rating for most books in 3 to 5 range. This does not give an accurate idea. What can b done? Can something like IMDB type can be done? It ...more