Mr. Burke's Reading List

Land of Oz , by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by David Hutchison (2009) (Not a review, just some notes to help me remember the things I've read. But written this way because it's the Internet, and some people will stumble across this page.) The first time I read the story of The Land of Oz was the Marvel Treasury of Oz treasury edition comic. It followed the joint DC /Marvel edition of The Wizard of Oz , which told the sotry of the movie, not the original novel. At some point after that, I'm sure I read the book itself. I know we had a copy in the house. Oddly, despite having a copy of The Wizard of Oz on our bookcase, I never read it. Not until I bought my first Palm Pilot and it was one of the books included. (At the time, people made fun of me for reading on something that small.) And there was the Disney movie Return to Oz with Dorothy, instead of the main character Tip, which covered a lot of the same material and featured quite a few of the same

In A Flash: 2020 , by Christopher J. Burke (2020) (Not a review. More of a blatant plug.) Still, it counts as a book read because I read the galleys cover to cover, looking for problems. 20 flash fiction stories -- disclaimer, some appeared, in slightly different form, in the eSpec Books blog when they won monthly Flash Fiction contests. The stories range from fantasy to science fiction to "realism", which is a catch-all, really. The Realism section gives you horror, noir, and pirates. (Not at the same time.) $1.99 for the ebook. The paperback is forthcoming. Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Flash-2020-Christopher-J-Burke-ebook/dp/B08CWQTYBR