Monday, April 29, 2024
Every Tool's a Hammer
Life Is What You Make It
by Adam Savage
Atria Books 2019
Library loan ebook
321 pages
The cover of this paperback/ebook version immediately brought to mind the cover of The Pencil:
A History of Design
and Circumstance
by Henry Petroski
Knopf 1989
354 pages
I’ve watched a number of Adam Savage's recent videos (apropos to nothing, he has a stapler collection - I have a stapler collection), but as someone who does less than 1/10,000 of what he does, I don’t know what I was expecting from his book. What I got—among many other things—was a whole new way to organize my editing process, and a new appreciation for my own less than 1/10,000 projects.
I’m buying this one in hardback to put in a place of honor in the builder/how-to/maker section of my library.
Cover of hardback version
Atria Books 2019
288 pages
Next, I’m trying out the type of pencil he has in his pocket (pencil nerds please see "The Pencil" book reference above), the PaperMate Sharpwriter #2. Well, the lesser modern version of it anyway. He made a whole video about it. Go watch, enjoy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLwo1kOcwxs
Cover of hardback version
Atria Books 2019
288 pages
Ali's Well That Ends Well
Tales of Desperation and
a Little Inspiration
by Ali Wentworth
Harper 2022
Library loan ebook
208 pages
Go Ask Ali
Half-Baked Advice
(And Free Lemonade)
by Ali Wentworth
Harper 2018
Library loan ebook
224 pages
Happily Ali After
And Other Fairly True Tales
by Ali Wentworth
Harper 2015
Library loan ebook
240 pages
Ali in Wonderland
And Other Tall Tales
by Ali Wentworth
Harper 2012
Library loan ebook
272 pages
Barbarella #5
The Center Cannot Hold
by Sarah Hoyt
Art by Riccardo Bogani
Dynamite Entertainment 2023
Graphic novel ebook
28 pages
Ho hum. Yet again making sure the series remains mildly kidlette appropriate. Which it did. Now it's done.
Barbarella #4
The Center Cannot Hold
by Sarah Hoyt
Art by Riccardo Bogani
Dynamite Entertainment 2023
Graphic novel ebook
29 pages
Again, making sure the series remains mildly kidlette appropriate.
Barbarella #3
The Center Cannot Hold
by Sarah Hoyt
Art by Riccardo Bogani
Dynamite Entertainment 2023
Graphic novel ebook
29 pages
Making sure the series remains mildly kidlette appropriate.
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Letters of Pontius Pilate
Written during His Governorship
of Judea to His Friend Seneca
in Rome
Edited by W.P. Crozier
Fredonia Books, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands 2002
176 pages
Nothing in this 2002 paperback version of the 1928 original indicates that it is a work of fiction. If fact, there is a carefully worded blurb on the copyright page that, in my opinion, deliberately obfuscates the genres that reads:
In order to make original editions of historical works available to scholars at an economical price this facsimile of the original edition is reproduced from the best available copy and has been digitally enhanced to improve legibility, but the text remains unaltered to retain historical authenticity.
To me, the inclusion of “historical works,” “scholars,” and “historical authenticity” serve to give the impression that this is a non-fiction work.
On March 30, 1928 The Manchester Guardian (now just The Guardian) printed a review of the British edition which was released that day by Jonathan Cape Ltd. It turned out that William Percival Crozier (a reporter and later editor for that same newspaper) was well versed in the Latin and Greek classics, as well as the Bible, all of which inspired his writing his first novel. And the paper identified it as such — a novel.
Seriously, who's going to believe Pontius Pilate ever said "Tell it to the Marines?" [Although Imperial Rome did have the equivilent of shipboard marines, the phrase did not appear until circa 1804 A.D.]
The American edition was published shortly thereafter, but printed without noting that it was a novel. As an afterthought the publisher, J.H. Sears & Company in New York, glued a tipped-in notice on the flap that said “these letters are purely fictitious and composed by Crozier for the purpose of presenting a picture of what might reasonably be supposed to have happened in the time of Pontius Pilate.” Both publishers listed Crozier as the “editor” in order to enhance the image of these being real letters.
I suspect that Crozier was influenced by Gesta Pilati: The Reports, Letters and Acts of Pontius Pilate. Being the Official Records of Pilate as made to Tiberius Caesar Emperor of Rome, Concerning the Apprehension, Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth written by William Overton Clough and published in 1880 by Robert Douglass. I’ll read that one soon and let you know. The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data lists Ann Wroe’s Pontius Pilate (Random House 2000) as biography despites its, um, enhancements, whereas Paul L. Maier’s Pontius Pilate (Kregel Publications 1968) proudly states on the cover “A Novel.”
Now let’s talk copyrights…
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Snowpiercer 3: Terminus
by Oliver Bocquet
Art by Jean-Marc Rochette
Titan Comics 2020
Library loan graphic novel
231 pages
Snowpiercer 2: The Explorers
by Benjamin Legrand
Art by Jean-Marc Rochette
English version Titan Comics 2014
Library loan graphic novel
140 pages
Snowpiercer 1: The Escape
by Jacques Lob
Art by Jean-Marc Rochette
English version Titan Comics 2014
Library loan graphic novel
110 pages
Thursday, April 4, 2024
The Logbook
1924 - 1944
One man’s aviation journey from
drying grapes with airplane engines
to flying the mail, bush flying in
Alaska and on to flying B-25s in WWII
by Joy Guyer
Unpublished/uncorrected draft copy 2024
Approximately 280 pages
Working title proposal for publishing. So far very good - an offer will be made!
Offer made and accepted! Now the fun begins!
Becoming Trader Joe
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How I Did Business My Way
And Still Beat the Big Guys
by Joe Coulombe with Patty Civalleri
HarperCollins Leadership 2021
288 pages
Holmes, Marple & Poe
The Greatest Crime-Solving Team
of the Twenty-First Century
by James Patterson and Brian Sitts
Little, Brown and Company 2024
Library ebook loan
352 pages
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