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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 …
September 13, 2018
Review ~ Memoirs and Confessions of a Stage Magician
Memoirs and Confessions of a Stage Magician by Donald Brandon & Joyce Brandon Want to know how magicians make a jet airplane disappear??? Want to know how magicians make a human being float and fly around the stage??? Want to know how magicians make it actually snow inside a theater??? All of these questions and …
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September 12, 2018
Writing Update, 9/12
What’s Going on Work-wise? I spent time last week and the week before formatting Eric’s Martian Engineer’s Notebook series. It took a little longer than I expected. The books are a deep dive into the science behind Andy Wier’s The Martian and have a lot of mathematical and chemical equations. The biggest hurdle, though, was …
September 10, 2018
It’s Monday, What Are You… 9/10
…Reading? Houdini and Conan Doyle by Christopher Sandford – I should be finished with this book by Sunday. I have to say, reading this makes me a little sad. Conan Doyle was so wrong about so many things… The Moving Blade by Michael Pronko – An ARC from the author. I really enjoyed the first …
September 6, 2018
#RIPXIII and #SomethingWickedFall Update 1
Beware the Outdoors The Ritual (2017) Directed by David Bruckner Starring Rafe Spall, Arsher Ali, Robert James-Collier, Sam Troughton I picked this off of Netflix’s horror list just because. The Ritual starts off as a pretty decent “lost in the woods” movie with a slight psychological twist. Four friends take a memorial trip to hike …
September 3, 2018
It’s Monday, What Are You… 9/3
Happy September, everyone! Yes, it isn’t autumn yet. It’s, like, 20 days until the equinox and, if you live in the Valley of Sun, substantially longer until it actually feels like *fall.* But it’s not to early to start dreaming.
September 1, 2018
Deal Me In, Week 35 ~ “The Enemy of All the World”
Hosted by Jay @ Bibliophilopolis What’s Deal Me In? “The Enemy of All the World” by Jack London Card picked: J♥ Found at: East of the Web It was Silas Bannerman who finally ran down that scientific wizard and arch-enemy of mankind, Emil Gluck. Gluck’s confession, before he went to the electric chair, threw much …
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August 30, 2018
Readers Imbibing Peril XIII All R.I.P. the Details I’m going to participate in Peril the First (read four books in the genres of mystery, suspense, thriller, dark fantasy, gothic, horror, or supernatural), Peril of the Short Story, and probably Peril on the Screen. Peril the First I have three ARCs in the queue that fit …
Readers Imbibing Peril XIII All R.I.P. the Details I’m going to participate in Peril the First (read four books in the genres of mystery, suspense, thriller, dark fantasy, gothic, horror, or supernatural), Peril of the Short Story, and probably Peril on the Screen. Peril the First I have three ARCs in the queue that fit …
Readers Imbibing Peril XIII All R.I.P. the Details I’m going to participate in Peril the First (read four books in the genres of mystery, suspense, thriller, dark fantasy, gothic, horror, or supernatural), Peril of the Short Story, and probably Peril on the Screen. Peril the First I have three ARCs in the queue that fit …
