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August 19, 2018
The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda Shofner and Kelly Rubidoux Apple. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, August 20th and runs through Sunday, August 26th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of …
August 18, 2018
Deal Me In, Week 33 ~ “Dark Warm Heart”
Hosted by Jay @ Bibliophilopolis What’s Deal Me In? “Dark Warm Heart” by Rich Larson Card picked: 8♣ – My horror suit. Found at: Tor Noel caught her wrist, the not-sore one, and folded both hands around it. “I’m sorry about last night,” he said. “I don’t know what’s in my head, sometimes.” The Story …
August 16, 2018
Mini Reviews, Vol. 14
The Black Dove by Steve Hockensmith Holmes On the Range Mystery #3 – I know, look at me reading all the series! Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer end up “deducifying” in Gold Rush San Francisco, looking to solve the mystery of Dr. Chan’s death. Hockensmith does a good job of keeping these mysteries fresh; …
August 13, 2018
Down the TBR Hole 16
This is a meme started by Lia at Lost in a Story. The “rules” are: Go to your Goodreads to-read shelf. Order on ascending date added. Take the first 5 (or 10 (or even more!) if you’re feeling adventurous) books. Of course, if you do this weekly, you start where you left off the last …
August 12, 2018
Deal Me In, Week 32 ~ “A Lumberjack’s Guide to Dryad Spotting”
Hosted by Jay @ Bibliophilopolis What’s Deal Me In? “A Lumberjack’s Guide to Dryad Spotting” by Charles Payseur Card picked: 6♦ Found at: Flash Fiction Online I’m always on the lookout for stories with fantasy critters that aren’t very common. Dryads fit that bill. This story is structured with a back and forth, by paragraph, …
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August 9, 2018
Review ~ The Secret History of Magic
The Secret History of Magic by Peter Lamont & Jim Steinmeyer If you read a standard history of magic, you learn that it begins in ancient Egypt, with the resurrection of a goose in front of the Pharaoh. You discover how magicians were tortured and killed during the age of witchcraft. You are told how …
August 8, 2018
Poetry Pit Stop #1
On Saturday morning, I went to Bookmans, the big, local second-hand book store. I browsed, but the only book that wanted to come home with me was Wind Song, a slim volume of Carl Sandburg’s poetry. Many of these are poems that I could probably find online, but I like poetry in books. On Saturday …
August 6, 2018
It’s Monday, What Are You… 8/6
…Reading? Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne – For #20BooksOfSummer. I’m about 1/3 of the way through and am enjoying Verne and all his scientific details. Lizzie: The Letters of Elizabeth Chester Fisk 1864-1893 by Rex C. Myers – For #20BooksOfSummer and Wild West Challenge. Paradise Lost by John Milton – My …
August 4, 2018
Deal Me In, Week 31 ~ “The Touch of Love”
Hosted by Jay @ Bibliophilopolis What’s Deal Me In? “The Touch of Love” by Day Al-Mohamed Card picked: K♥ Found at: Daily Science Fiction The Story There is a content warning at the top of this story and, yeah, it’s appropriate. Soft science fiction asks questions. If you can make companion robots, could you (or …
August 2, 2018
Review ~ Thieves, Rascals and Sore Losers
Thieves, Rascals and Sore Losers: The Unsettling History of the Dirty Deals that Helped Settle Nebraska by Marilyn Coffey On they came, from Belgium and New Hampshire, from Ireland, Germany and Scandinavia, from the Chicago fire, from the territories: Utah, Wyoming, Kansas, the Dakotas. All the way they brawled, about Indians, about border lines, about …
