(b)logophile

The BLDGBLOG Book has become a reality! Can’t wait for this one, and Amazon is selling it for only $20 (even the list price of $30 is less than I expected — it’s pretty illustration-heavy). You can see some spreads on Flickr (adorably photographed on what I presume is the author’s floor, with what I [...]

Apparently it’s read-an-ebook week, and has been since… nearly a week ago. Some publishers are offering extra freebies in honour of the occasion, although I must say many of the offerings look pretty hopeless to me. I’m going to let the occasion provoke me into posting, since otherwise I’ll never get those half-baked thoughts out [...]

The sixth and final volume of Narbonic has finally gone to print. I couldn’t wait and read the end of the story in the archives, but it’ll be great to get it on paper. Now we start agitating for the Astonishing Excursions (aka Victorian Narbonic to the Moon! And Venus!). (Apparently the format will make [...]

For the first time in ages I’ve bought a book newly printed, all unknowing of its contents. Well, not quite, but I got probably more excited about The Manual of Detection than might seem justified by the sparse reviews and basic lack of hype to be found online. Below the cut, my anticipation and purchase, [...]

Het Martyrium bookshop has a pretty fine collection of “ramsj” (new books that aren’t selling well, at severe discount). Olga tipped me off; between us we’ve picked up biographies of Bakunin and Perec, essays on Russell, a collection of Harold Bloom‘s criticism, and a selection of recent papers on philosophy of logic and knowledge. The [...]