Michael Marshall's Blog, page 10

Emails, and tea

A bumper post this one, as it holds two pieces of… Well, not information, as such. Two chunks of words, perhaps. Sadly, they're both a just a tiny bit dull. 1. If you've tried to join this blog in the past, or register or whatever the hell it is you do with these things, you [...]

Absence

Near the end of our recent vacation, my wife was flicking through the photos I'd taken on my iPhone and at one point muttered: "Now that is a classic example of the boring pictures you take." During the 'discussion' that followed, she clarified/refined/backtracked this remark to claim that while she simply adored the landscape pictures [...]

Fearful Joys

Looking at the Recently Played smartlist in iTunes, I can tell there's a song that's had massively more airplay in my world than any other over the last couple of months. That doesn't surprise me. I've put it on at random points during the day. I've had it on repeat in the background while I've [...]

Bring Cheese!

I should be working, but the coffee house is this morning is rife with babies, consumptives and a howling dog. It's like a noise factory. So… I'm going to have one more try at getting the following out of my system, and then I promise to never, ever mention it again. There's a sentence I [...]

Good News

I was quite a bolshy little atheist when I was in my teens — all teenagers should be. I still don't Believe, but nothing makes me feel more tired these days than hearing some smug comedian or other chat-merchant dumping on religion. If you live in the Bible Belt, fine — there's something big and [...]

Post up at Mulholland Books

For anyone who's interested, I have a lengthy post up at the fantastic Mulholland Books site, rapidly emerging as the place to go for opinions and news on suspense, crime, mystery and thriller fiction, with very regular contributions from some stellar writers. Oh, and me. For the time being, the post is on the front [...]

Notes from Bedlam

I know I'm repeating myself with some of the following, but — in the hope of preserving my mental health, such as it is — I'm going to get a couple of things off my chest. The fact is, I spend a lot of time in the iTunes store. Too much. But given that I [...]