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October 2, 2018
Here we are: October. Halfway through all this autumnal blogging goodness. I’ll be continuing my participation in Readers Imbibing Peril and Something Wicked This Fall Comes/FrightFall. Perilous Details | FrightFall Details October TBR A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott – I’ll be finishing this up in the next week or two. …
October 1, 2018
Wrapping September 2018
While doing my morning pages today, I wrote, “Well, September was a bust.” But then I actually thought about it. The summer heat that lasted well past the equinox must have made me soft in the head. September was a really a pretty good month! Reading Books Finished: 4 Highlights: The Moving Blade by Michael …
September 29, 2018
Deal Me In, Week 39 ~ “The Limitless Perspective of Master Peek”
Hosted by Jay @ Bibliophilopolis What’s Deal Me In? “The Limitless Perspective of Master Peek, or, the Luminescence of Debauchery” by Catherynne M. Valente Card picked: 4♦ Found at: Beneath Ceaseless Skies And thus was I left, Perpetua alone and loudly complaining, in the quiet dark of my father’s glassworks, with no one willing to …
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September 27, 2018
Review ~ The Moving Blade
This book was provided to me by the author (and NetGalley) for review consideration. The Moving Blade by Michael Pronko When the top American diplomat in Tokyo, Bernard Mattson, is killed, he leaves more than a lifetime of successful Japan-American negotiations. He leaves a missing manuscript, boxes of research, a lost keynote speech and a …
September 26, 2018
Writing Update, 9/26
How’s It Going? I’m 95% satisfied with the cover I’ve come up with for The Case of the Sorrowful Seamstress. That percentage might go down after I post this and see it in a new context. Next up: Another editing pass (I’ll probably put the manuscript through a text to speech program) and writing the …
September 24, 2018
It’s Monday, What Are You… 9/24
…Reading? It’s all about ladies being spookily in love this week: The Spellbook of Katrina Van Tassel: A Story of Sleepy Hollow by Alyssa Palombo – I’m at 20%. I expected a few more supernatural aspects, but there’s a lot of book left. A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott – I’m nearly …
September 23, 2018
Review ~ Houdini and Conan Doyle
Houdini and Conan Doyle by Christopher Sandford In the early twentieth century, Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini were two of the most famous men alive, and their relationship was extraordinary: Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the ultra-rational detective Sherlock Holmes, nonetheless believed in the supernatural. After eleven family members, including his son and brother, …
September 22, 2018
Deal Me In, Week 38 ~ “The Day of an American Journalist in 2889”
Hosted by Jay @ Bibliophilopolis What’s Deal Me In? “The Day of an American Journalist in 2889” by Jules Verne (or maybe Michel Verne) Card picked: 10♥ Found at: East of the Web Little though they seem to think of it, the people of this twenty-ninth century live continually in fairyland. Surfeited as they are …
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September 20, 2018
#RIPXIII and #SomethingWickedFall Update 2
Love and Marriage…and the Gothic I sometimes forget that gothic literature is more often than not “romantic” literature. So many gothic stories are centered on match-making and weddings and star-crossed lovers. So far, a good number of my Gothic September stories highlight this very thing. “Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter” by …
September 17, 2018
It’s Monday, What Are You… 9/17
…Reading? I made a push to finish Christopher Sandford’s Houdini and Conan Doyle on Sunday. I should have my thoughts about it put together by Thursday. But with that out of the way, it’s pure R.I.P. for a while: The Moving Blade by Michael Pronko – I’m at about 60% and should finish later …
