My goal every year is to average reading two books per month. I think this is a reasonable goal but it is one that I have not met three out of the last four years. Looking back at my reads list for this year I see a lot of short books/booklets and graphic novels.
Starting about two years ago I started reading The Sandman by Neil Gaiman. I finished the original series along with Endless Nights this summer. In those eleven volumes there was rarely a story I'd call a dud. Sometimes I felt the art was sketchy, but the stories--oh the stories! There was a lot of good stuff here. This year I've read Batman Earth One which is another telling of Batman's origin. I enjoyed this one too. The take on Alfred in this volume was new to me, and interesting. I also picked up the Birds of Prey collection Of Like Minds. It was interesting to read a comic written by a woman (Gail Simone) about women. In one panel they are taking about their boy problems and two pages later they are kicking the snot out of some dude. Nice! Recently I picked up a copy of The League of Extraordinary Gentleman (Volume 1) by Alan Moore. I was vaguely familiar with this title from the movie that was released some years ago. I thought it was a neat idea to bring the different characters of literature together this way. With the exception of Alan Quatermain I have read the books and stories in which all the other characters in the Moore comic appear.
I wanted some treas so on Saturday night I made a batch of soda muffins (a copy of the recipe is here). They were very tasty fresh from the oven and smeared with strawberry jam. I warmed one in the microwave Sunday morning and wasn't impressed. Warming them in the oven was a much better option.
At a loss for what else to make last weekend I settled on making green chile cheeseburgers. When I was a wee lad in college we would make the trek from Socorro, NM to nearby San Antonio, NM to go to The Owl Bar. I enjoyed the burgers there. No pictures of my burgers though. Sorry folks!
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