Dan's Canon

Building and recording my personal book and film canon. I love high minded art almost as much as pulp. Probable genres: SFF, crime, pretentious literary fiction, horror, history, poetry and biography. Scale used in reviews: Canon (must have been read at least twice), Canon-Worthy, Highly Recommended, Recommended, Pass, Hard Pass. I'm more likely to finish and post about things I like than those I don't, so reviews will skew toward the high end of that scale.

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Ballad of the Harp Weaver/A Few Figs From Thistles/Eight Sonnets from American Poetry: A Miscellany by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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 As far as I can tell this is the only time they gave the Pulitzer to such a mix of works by one author. Sure there are multiple collected e...
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

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 I’ll start with the book is a damn delight! I’d read two Discworld novels in the past, The Color of Magic back in the late 90s and Guards! ...
Tuesday, April 11, 2023

The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Sparks (and some catch up on other Sparks books)

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 The Girls of Slender Means is a thorough delight. I'm starting to expect that now that I've read a few Spark books recently. It...
Monday, April 10, 2023

Collected Poems (1921) Edwin Arlington Robinson

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I started a project last year to read all of the Pulitzer Prize Winners in Poetry in order, and to pick up with the National Book Awards whe...
Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell

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I've been a fan of David Mitchell since I first read Cloud Atlas in 2009. I know that his structural gimmicks don't work for everyon...
Saturday, June 5, 2021

Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned by Walter Mosley

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This is my seventh book (and sixth novel) by Walter Mosley, who has cemented himself on my favorite authors list. This is up there for me a ...
Saturday, May 29, 2021

Mortal Love by Elizabeth Hand

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Elizabeth Hand's obsession with outsider art might find it's apex in Cass Neary, the aging punk photographer from Generation Loss an...
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