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Flippin’ through Previews – December 2011
Are you looking to do a little Christmas shopping? Well, too bad – Previews #279 is NOT for you! (Because it, you know, has books for February and beyond, so it’s too late for Christmas shopping, so it’s funny that it’s the “December” issue, right, and … oh, let’s just move on.)
What I bought – 26 October 2011
I understood it this evening: the author has to die in order for the reader to become aware of his truth. (Umberto Eco, from Foucault’s Pendulum)
What I bought – 19 October 2011
My granddaughter Andrea wrote a composition for school in which she said that she liked her “grandmother’s imagination.” I asked her what she was referring to, and without hesitation she replied, “You remember things that never happened.” Don’t we all do that? (Isabel Allende, from My Invented Country)
Flippin’ through Previews – July 2011
Oh, no – is it the Apocalypse?!?!? Only Previews #274 knows for sure!
Flippin’ through Previews – June 2011
Let’s check out this month’s Previews with the full knowledge that these are the last times we’ll see all these DC titles in their current incarnations!
What I bought – 9 March 2011
She told him about God, who resembled her strongly, an amiable, loving and sad person given to losing things, and dropping things. He it was, struggling to hold aloft so much, that fumbled and let fall their mother from out his tender embrace. (John Banville, from Doctor Copernicus)
What I bought – 30 June 2010
The difference between men and sheep seems to be that men, unlike sheep, need not be led to the slaughter but are carried there on the wings of their own enthusiasm. (William Gerhardie, from God’s Fifth Column)
Flippin’ through Previews – July 2010
One thing really cracked me up about this month’s Previews … and then someone else pointed out how stupid it was before I could. Damn it!!!!!!
Flippin’ through Previews – June 2010
You know, I always thought Superman needed a Bill Belichick hoodie. Thanks to Previews #261, I no longer have to wonder what that looks like!
Flippin’ through Previews – April 2010
There is one book in Previews, issue #259, that you must order. YOU MUST!!!! But, pray tell, which one might it be? Can you guess????
Flippin’ through Previews – March 2010
Yes, it’s that time of the month again for Previews! You know you want to!
What I bought – 24 February 2010
One need only admit that public tranquility is in danger and any action finds a justification. (Leo Tolstoy, from War and Peace)
Flippin’ through Previews – February 2010
The Marvel Universe has apparently never existed before … because it starts in Previews #257!
