Nicholas Bruner
Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Young Adult Author
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What I’m Reading: Complete Peanuts, 1979-80
So this is the second volume of the Complete Peanuts I’ve read in the past few months. The Complete Peanuts is a project to publish every strip of Charles Schulz’s Peanuts, from its inception in 1951 to its final panel in 2000. It’s a… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: Complete Peanuts, 1979-80”
What I’m Reading: City of Scoundrels
City of Scoundrelsby Gary Krist is historical non-fiction covering the story of a particularly horrific week-and-a-half in the history of Chicago, specifically, July 21st to July 31st 1919. The experimental flight of an airship kicked the eleven days off when it caught fire above… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: City of Scoundrels”
What I’m Reading: X’ed Out
X’ed Out is a graphic novel by Charles Burns. It was loaned to me by a friend who lauded it as one of the better things he’s read lately. It follows Doug, a 20-something art school student who’s been having a tough time lately. His… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: X’ed Out”
Again With the Importance of Writing Groups
So I was on vacation last week, and the week before that was just crazy, and maybe the week before that I’d been kind of lazy. But for whatever reason, I hadn’t written in my WiP for three weeks. I was really dreading getting… Continue Reading “Again With the Importance of Writing Groups”
What I’m Reading: Daytripper
Daytripper is a graphic novel by Brazilian brothers Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá. The two have illustrated American comics in the past (notably the Umbrella Academy series from a few years back that was popular with the artier portions of the comics readership), but I think they… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: Daytripper”
What I’m Reading: Butter
Most of the YA I read is recommended to me by my wife, the teen librarian at a local library. However, Butter is something I picked out from her pile of reading material. I liked the title and read the first page just to… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: Butter”
How Often Should You Write?
So after a week-long vacation, and several extremely busy days after getting back, I’ve finally returned to writing on a daily basis this week. The first couple days were tough, but now the words are flowing. I’m struck again, as I have been in the past, how important… Continue Reading “How Often Should You Write?”
