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June 25, 2018
It’s Monday, What Are You… 6/25
…Reading? Finished Last Week: Three books? I know, amazing (for me). I’ve already reviewed Fall of Man in Wilmslow and I’ll have a review of Jeremy Clay’s Victorian press anthology The Burglar Caught by a Skeleton (hopefully) on Thursday. Drive by James Sallis was an impulse “read”: it’s a novella and I listened to it …
June 23, 2018
Deal Me In, Week 25 ~ “The Jack of Coins”
Hosted by Jay @ Bibliophilopolis What’s Deal Me In? “The Jack of Coins” by Christopher Rowe Card picked: 9♦ Found at: Tor.com When the man came closer, we saw that he wasn’t a policeman at all. His uniform was something else altogether, something epauletted and braided and polished here and there to a high shine. …
June 21, 2018
Review ~ Fall of Man in Wilmslow
Fall of Man in Wilmslow by David Lagercrantz, trans. George Goulding From the author of the #1 best seller The Girl in the Spider’s Web—an electrifying thriller that begins with Alan Turing’s suicide and plunges into a post-war Britain of immeasurable repression, conformity and fear On June 8, 1954, Alan Turing is found dead in …
Review ~ Fall of Man in Wimslow
Fall of Man in Wimslow by David Lagercrantz, trans. George Goulding From the author of the #1 best seller The Girl in the Spider’s Web—an electrifying thriller that begins with Alan Turing’s suicide and plunges into a post-war Britain of immeasurable repression, conformity and fear On June 8, 1954, Alan Turing is found dead in …
June 19, 2018
Five Word Story Challenge
Lori @ Betwined Reads tagged me a couple weeks ago for this fun little writing challenge. I meant to get it done last week in place of my Wednesday writing update, but I’m not the best at keeping to a blogging schedule. Witness! this will be a Tuesday post. The “Rules” Thank the person who tagged …
June 18, 2018
Down the TBR Hole 14
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 …
June 16, 2018
Deal Me In, Week 24 ~ “Bog Girl”
Hosted by Jay @ Bibliophilopolis What’s Deal Me In? “Bog Girl” by Karen Russell Card picked: 4♠ Found at: The New Yorker I don’t remember if I recognized Karen Russell when I added this story to my deck. Her novel Swamplandia! has been on the periphery of my TBR-eventually list. In this case, Swamplandia! will …
June 11, 2018
It’s Monday, What Are You… 6/11
…Reading? Fall of Man in Wilmslow by David Lagercrantz – About half way with this. It’s been a strangely fast read. Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi – At the 20% mark. It’s been a strangely slow read. And a bunch of short stories… It’s Monday! What Are You Reading, hosted by Book Date! …Watching? I’m watching …
June 9, 2018
Cinema Saturday, Vol. 1
I’m bringing back Cinema Saturday as an occasional feature to fill my weekend blogging spot when I don’t feel like talking about things I’ve read. This post covers four films I watched between mid-May and early June. Links and info courtesy IMDB. It Follows (2014) Director: David Robert Mitchell Writer: David Robert Mitchell Stars: Maika …
June 7, 2018
Review ~ The Doctor and the Kid
The Doctor and the Kid by Mike Resnick Welcome to a West like you’ve never seen before! With the O. K. Corral and the battle with the thing that used to be Johnny Ringo behind him, the consumptive Doc Holliday makes his way to Deadwood, Colorado. But when a gambling loss drains his bankroll, Doc …
