1920 / Ebook / 32 pages / USA
**
Only notable for making Eliot's epic look a little less inventive, this less quotable, more self-absorbed, insufferably élite epitaph for the cultural wasteland didn't work for me. I only liked the bit at the end where he dies and we get some peace. I don't think he's showing off, just refusing to dumb down. It's elaborate old-school Twitter.
Fave: Mauberley IV.
1936 (collected 1943) / Audiobook / 115 pages / USA
***
So similar to The Postman Always Rings Twice in its mariticidal ruminations that the authorities should probably have a bit of a preventive chat with the author, this time swapping an impossibly cryptic title for an enjoyably crap 1990s-2000s action movie banner.
Christopher S. Claremont and Adam T. Hughes, Star Trek: Debt of Honor
**
A rare standalone Graphic Novel from the DC days that sets itself apart from your common-as-muck comics through the sort of 'prestige' art that's now the standard in licensed works and a grand scope that spans the uniform-coded chronology and felt like it was taking place in real time considering how many sessions it took me to get through. The phonetic transcription of all 'non-standard' accents had something to do with that.
2007 / Ebook / 106 pages / USA
***
This is how I'd unimaginatively write one of these – give the briefest possible introduction so there's more time to go through the songs in order. Turns out that's not so rewarding when it's your first time listening along and that those band biographies I've moaned about can be useful context.
Charm Baker, Shut Up and Write!: Step-by-Step Guide How to Get Paid to Write Within a Week
***
Despite the crap cover, this isn't a flimsy promotional tool for an extortionate online course, like these usually are, but actually contains good (presumably), practical advice as the writer streamlines the specific route she took to financial independence that she wants you to repeat for your own benefit. That's nice. I should probably take it up on a few things when work slows down, but it's a bit proactive for me. My own repeatable guide would be recklessly laid-back.
