Tarzan and the Forbidden City An old friend returns and I was so excited to see him. If you’ve read the book that started all of this – and if you haven’t, why haven’t you – then you will recognize Lieutenant Paul d’Arnot as the brave Frenchman that Tarzan rescued…
Tarzan’s Quest Tarzan’s Quest is, I believe, the last official appearance of Lady Jane Greystoke, née Porter, and what an appearance it is. She’s swinging through the trees, commanding an expedition, confronting a murderer, and killing an angry leopard with her handmade bow and arrows. She has come a long…
Tarzan and the Leopard Men Poor Tarzan is going to end up with Repetitive Head Injury Syndrome if this keeps up. This time around he is caught up in a storm and is hit in the head by a tree branch. He is rescued by Orando of the Utengi tribe…
Tarzan and the Lion Man This book is half and half for me. I absolutely loved the skewering of Hollywood and its denizens. Since I’ve hated almost every Tarzan movie ever made I can sympathize with Edgar Rice Burroughs and his frustration with their ham-fisted treatment of his most famous…
Tarzan and the City of Gold This is one of the rarer later books where Tarzan has a more central role. It takes place in another lost civilization and starts when Tarzan rescues a strange white man and wanders in the jungle with him long enough to learn his language…
Tarzan Triumphant Of all of the later Tarzan books, this is my favorite. I remembered Gunner and his machine gun long after the rest of the details were lost in the fog of time. This is one of the rare Tarzan books that is genuinely funny. Gunner and his “kid”…
I have taken a long break from blogging and I think it’s time to start it back up again. Over the last two years a lot of things have happened, but the biggest was the loss of my father January 6 of this year. You can see his memorial site…
I was talking to Steve at work the other day and he mentioned a comedian who was waxing indignant about people who “brag” about reading. This comedian gets offended when people say “The book was better than the movie,” for instance. How can words on the page be better than…
In the last two days, I’ve cleaned house, done laundry, made 2 dozen Halloween cards and enough embellishments to make a dozen more, finished reading one book and then finished the second half of another and helped my friend, Wanda, to make a blank book. Oh, and I played a…
Vacation is half over and it’s been fun. Low-key, but fun. Last weekend was Comic Con, which wasn’t so low-key, but since then, I’ve spent every day in the craft studio. I made books on Sunday and then visited with the missionaries. (That’s one downside to working with the garage…
