Wishlist Wednesday #1

Hello! I sort of stole this from Topcho, at Bla Bla Bla Books, but Wishlist Wednesday sounded like a cool blog hop to participate in, so I wanted to give it a try! Wishlist Wednesday, which is hosted by the big and fancy book blog Pen to Paper, is where, once a week, you write about a book that you would very much like to own. As I am fantastic at wanting things, I figured that I'd be a shoo-in for doing well at this. Anyway, here is the lovely link button for the blog hop, followed by my actual entry. (I will also have you know that, being the advanced computer user that I am, it took me 10 minutes to make this button show up.)

Anyway, my one wanted book out of dozens for today's post is Fantomas in America by David White. (Here's a nifty website from the publisher that has a pile of information about the novel!) I have an unreasonable amount of enthusiasm for turn of the 20th century French pulp novels, and am on-purpose-slowly working my way through the five translated and available Fantomas novels, by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre, that are available in the public domain. (I got them from Project Gutenberg, but they're also free downloads for Kindle from Amazon.com. Either way, the text is the same, so it doesn't matter which eBook source you use.) Fantomas in America, however, is a 2007 novel about the titular supervillian coming to America, apparently after he was presumed dead in the wreckage of the Titanic, which is awesome, and causing all sorts of trouble. Rather than being a brand-new story, however, the book is based on a lost American silent serial from the 1920s, and also contains some stills from those movies. I only found out that this book existed last night, which means that it's in the front of my mind and easy to write about today, but at some point, I really hope to read it.

I am not sure if that was a proper Wishlist Wednesday post, but it was fun to do, and I don't see myself running out of things to write about in posts like this anytime soon. Hopefully, I'll participate next week, too! Until then, however, I should have another normal post sometime in the next week, and there's another blog hop type of thing that I'm hoping to participate in, too. I'm hoping that these things end up going well.