Happy Thursday, everyone! Bit of a late one this week due to some work stuff but I have three good things for you.
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Nancy and Lawerence Goldstone are excellent non-fiction writers and occasional novelists, but I'm a big fan especially of their books about how they almost stumbled into being book collectors. Being a book collector can be a bit of a sickness, but it's also a joy of learning about new authors and old authors and the joys of a great binding. This book is a ton of fun as they explore large bookstores and tiny town stores and in-between, as well as talking about weird things like book thieves and how New York has a completely illegal private park with a statue of Edwin Booth.
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We're in the offseason for sports at the moment as Baseball doesn't start until the middle of February, so I I thought it was maybe time to finally read the other novel by W.P. Kinsella, who wrote the classic Shoeless Joe. Every description I've read of this feels weirdly Stephen King, like how this guys fantasy baseball players could crawl out of the game after the protagonist and that fascinates me.
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One more thing this week; I was a weirdly huge fan of the 2018 kind-of MCU movie Venom, a Spider-Man movie where Spider-Man never appears where Tom Hardy is a kind of goofy freelance journalist named Eddie who gets infected by an alien symbiote. It's an odd movie with an evil version of his symbiote (turns out Venom is as much of a loser as Eddie), Eddie dealing with his ex-girlfriend actually caring enough about him to keep an eye out for him after he gets fired and of all things, his girlfriend's new partner also being a decent dude about Eddie! (Like in the Ant-Man movies with Bobby Cannavalle, Reid Scott (from Veep) is really good as a good guy.) I'll admit I missed the sequel so far so I was real happy to find this double set.
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