 It is now July 3rd 2016. It's time for me to wrap up everything that happened in the month of June. First of all, my subscribership on YouTube is above 530, so it's gone up by 15 or 20 since last time. My patrons at 50th Street are still only 3 at $26 a month. So after you like and subscribe this video, then please follow the patronage link in the description below. Okay, let's talk about books that came in in the month of June. First of all, there's this issue of Galaxy magazine from June 1974. I bought this off of eBay because it has part one of Bob Shaw's Orbitsville like it says there at the top. And I have to say this is the most unique ideas about a Dyson Sphere that I've ever seen. I'm going to be buying the next two issues of this to get the next two parts of the novel. Okay, The Plague by Camus. This came in a couple of weeks ago. I started reading it earlier this week. It's pretty good. The Third Bear by Jeff Vandermeer, a collection of horror stories. I read the first one and it was excellent. Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson. I'm not familiar with this title. I've read Robinson of course before. This was on sale for $3 at the library thrift store. Big book. So I picked it up. At the same time, I also bought this. It's called She Left Me the Gun by someone named Emma Brockes or Brox. I don't know. This is not science fiction. It's not even fiction. She's trying to uncover her late mother's mysterious past and it sounded so interesting that I went and picked it up for a dollar. This came in the mail. Big hardback edition, illustrated edition of The Hobbit. I had no idea this was going to be a giant hardback when I sent away for it on eBay. But here it is, a dollar. I've never read Tolkien. I thought I might as well read The Hobbit. This also surprised me. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. I read about this when he died recently and the reason it surprised me is how big it is. It's almost 650 pages. I had no idea. I really don't know anything about this book. I don't know anything about the author either but it sounded really interesting when I read about it and I don't know if I'll even try to tackle this maybe someday. Also from eBay, Strangers in Paradise, the high school trade paperback. This reprints issues 14, 15 and 16 from the ongoing series from back in the 90s. It also has the girls cosplaying as Xena. This is a series that I need to talk about on my odd comics series of reviews which I need to bring back by the way and I will. Also from the library, while I was there they had this two disc DVD set of Citizen Kane and also a DVD of Die Hard which of course I've seen Die Hard but I don't think I've ever had a DVD of it and it's got a commentary track. And they had a DVD of The Big Lebowski which I've never seen. I've heard all the quotes from it and people rave about it so I'll finally get to see it. I drove to Miami Beach and I spent Friday, the first of July, at the Florida Supercon. It was a really unpleasant drive. The Supercon itself wasn't run very well but I met a lot of interesting people and got a lot of great video and I bought a handful of things. I tried to avoid buying stuff at the conventions but sometimes you just have to. I met Colleen Doran and bought her newly reprinted volume one of A Distant Soil. This is something else I need to cover on odd comics. She's been self-publishing this series since the 1980s. She started when she was a teenager. As a friend of mine put it, Colleen Doran is one of the kings of self-publishing. I thought that was a neat way of putting it. Her art is beautiful. I really do need to talk about this someday and I need to read it. I'm ashamed to say I've never read it. She also sold me this trade paperback of Justice League 3001 because she had done some work in it and she signed it and she advised me to go to the table next door and get Keith Giffen to sign it which he did but he told me this is a bad book. He said that this is bad. So what are you going to do? There were a lot of novelists at the convention. I don't recall seeing so many novelists having tables at the convention. In fact, there was a publisher there with a large table and several authors and I was walking by and I saw this cover, Hex by Thomas Oldie Wevelt. And I recognized the cover. I'd seen it online. I'd read about the book and then he walked up and I did a double take because I'd seen his face when I read about the book and I said, oh it's you and he said yeah so I bought this from him. $26 which I normally wouldn't pay that much for a book but with a book that sounds so interesting and the author standing right there you know you want to support the author. This is apparently really terrifying. I may save it for October. I was just noticing when he signed it he stuck a card in here and it has a needle and thread attached to it. It says it's an eye sewing kit. It says instructions so eyes shut. Miami Beach from the Tampa area is supposed to be about a four-hour drive by the way but it took me eight hours to get home Friday. It was after midnight when I got home and these two were waiting for me in the mailbox. Women of Wonder edited by Pamela Sargent who I just reviewed and the similar book Millennial Women with a novel by Ursula K. Le Guin. Joan D. Vinge has a story in here and it's one that I've read so I know whoever edited this has good taste because it was a good story. During the drive I finished listening to two audiobooks that I started some time ago. A picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. It was something that I was very much looking forward to listening to and it was it was really bad. It was very not good. I think it'll be my next review and also Jaws by Peter Benchley. I'll definitely review that at some point maybe October and one other thing when I'm thinking about it I reviewed Stardust by Neil Gaiman last month and I had two different people tell me that I should see the movie that the movie was better than the book. Well I did see the movie because it was on Netflix and I disagreed. I didn't really like it. I thought the book was a lot more interesting than the movie. I'll leave it at that and speaking of movies I also saw Zootopia at the library today. It was much better than I expected. I was entertained. I was laughing out loud within the first few seconds of the beginning of the movie. Maybe I'll review it at some point I don't know. As I said I just got back from Miami Beach. While I was there I stayed at the Jazz Hostel which is a place I usually stay when I go to Miami. It's been five years. If not the Jazz Hostel then one of the other big hostels there on Miami Beach there's several of them. I recommend that you look for hostels when you're traveling. You'll save like a hundred dollars a night seriously. The hostels always have good Wi-Fi and their community rooms are always a great place to sit hunched over your cell phone or your laptop because that's what everybody else is doing. I really really wanted to try to do a quick live wrap-up of June from their community room. But here's what it looked like. The space was great. The lighting was great. I was getting a good picture. I was able to prop my cell phone up on my bag there. The problem was the room was full of people all silent looking at their laptops and I would have had to start talking really loudly and I didn't want to do that. But also here's what it sounded like. Yeah really loud radio music which is not conducive for talking and also would be a copyright problem for YouTube of course. One of these days I'm going to do something like that. I'm going to find a nice spot with good Wi-Fi and do a quick dirty review right there with my phone uploaded straight to YouTube. So look for that someday. I shot a lot of good video in Miami Beach. I shot a lot of good video at some other places on my way down there and I'm going to be shooting more video at some more places this coming week and I have some interviews coming up that I've done lots of videos this month. So look for those and please remember to hit the like button that really does help these videos get seen and subscribe so you can come back next time. And also please become a patron the link is in the description below. Thank you. Bye.