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March 11, 2019
Magic Monday, 3/11/19
I like Mondays. I also like magic. I figured I’d combine the two and make a Monday feature that is truly me: a little bit of magic and a look at the week ahead. The magic world lost one of its great performers and mentors this past weekend. Johnny Thompson was known as a fabulous …
March 10, 2019
#DealMeIn2019 Week 10 ~ “Evil Opposite”
Hosted by Jay @ Bibliophilopolis What’s Deal Me In? “Evil Opposite” by Naomi Kritzer Card picked: 6♥ Found at: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September-October 2017 There is a theory that each choice, each chance, each throw of a die creates a separate parallel universe; that there are infinite universes layered like filo …
March 8, 2019
Review ~ The Lady from the Black Lagoon
This book was provided to me by Hanover Square Press via NetGalley for review consideration. The Lady from the Black Lagoon Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O’Meara As a teenager, Mallory O’Meara was thrilled to discover that one of her favorite movies, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, featured …
March 3, 2019
March TBR 2019
I don’t want to make grand pronouncements, but for the time being, I plan on blogging less (not that I blog much to begin with). After this week, I have no more ARCs in the queue and I don’t plan on pursuing more through NetGalley. I’m going to review when I feel like it and …
February 28, 2019
The Black Cat, No. 5, February 1896
Welcome to the fifth issue of The Black Cat and the Black Cat Project! Happily, no. 5 was not missing pages, though some of the scanning was iffy. Stories “The Mysterious Card” by Cleveland Moffett While in Paris, Richard Burwell is given a card written in purple ink by a beautiful woman. Burwell doesn’t read …
February 24, 2019
#DealMeIn2019, Week 8 ~ “On Highway 18”
Hosted by Jay @ Bibliophilopolis What’s Deal Me In? “On Highway 18” by Rebecca Campbell Card picked: 10♥ Found at: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September-October 2017 The kids in the 7-Eleven parking lot knew everything that happened from one ens of the highway to the other. They knew, for example, about the …
February 21, 2019
Review ~ The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she’s never …
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February 19, 2019
Top 10 Tuesday ~ Books I LOVED with Fewer than 2,000 Ratings on Goodreads
I don’t usually do Top Ten Tuesday because…I’m really bad with lists. But I saw this topic around the blog-o-sphere and wanted to chime in. Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born …
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February 18, 2019
It’s Monday, What Are You… 02/18/19
…Reading? I went to the library last Tuesday, which is only partially the reason for the upheaval in my immediate TBR pile. The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery by Bill James & Rachel McCarthy James – I’ve been wanting to read this since I came across the Wikipedia …
February 14, 2019
Review ~ Ashes to Ashes
This book was provided to me by Repeater Books via NetGalley for review consideration. Ashes to Ashes: The Songs of David Bowie, 1976-2016 by Chris O’Leary From the ultimate David Bowie expert comes this exploration of the final four decades of the popstar’s musical career, covering every song he wrote, performed or produced from 1976 …
