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April 15, 2018
Deal Me In, Week 15 ~ “A Human Stain”
Hosted by Jay @ Bibliophilopolis What’s Deal Me In? “A Human Stain” by Kelly Robson Card picked: 6♣ Found at: Tor The Story Down on her luck, Helen is offered the opportunity to accompany Bärchen, a man she barely knows beyond his propensity for revelry, to his ancestral home to teach his orphaned nephew English …
April 13, 2018
Review ~ All the Crooked Saints
All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater Here is a thing everyone wants: a miracle. Here is a thing everyone fears: what it takes to get one. Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, scientific dreams, miracle-mad owls, estranged affections, one or two orphans, and …
April 11, 2018
Writing Update, 4/11
Our Past in the Uncanny Valley How’s It Going? I’ve ended up with 19 stories by 16 different authors. I finished formatting the stories on Saturday. A good thing too because by about Thursday of last week I had completely run out of formatting juice. I worked on the cover a little last week for …
April 9, 2018
It’s Monday, What Are You… 4/9
…Reading? *looks at carefully worked out April TBR**wants nothing to do with it*
April 8, 2018
Deal Me In, Week 14 ~ “The Luck of Roaring Camp”
Hosted by Jay @ Bibliophilopolis What’s Deal Me In? “The Luck of Roaring Camp” by Bret Harte Card picked: 8♠ Found at: AmericanLiterature.com The Story For a story set in a mining camp in 1850 California, this is an awfully sweet tale. There was commotion in Roaring Camp. The commotion is the birth of a …
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April 6, 2018
Review ~ The Infamous Harry Hayward
This book was provided to me by University of Minnesota Press via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. The Infamous Harry Hayward: A True Account of Murder and Mesmerism in Gilded Age Minneapolis by Shawn Francis Peters On a winter night in 1894, a young woman’s body was found in the middle of a …
April 2, 2018
April TBR & Spring into Horror
I wasn’t sure if I was going do Michelle’s Spring into Horror Readathon because I don’t have any horror on my set TBR list! But who needs to follow set lists, right? For that moment, this is what I plan on reading for Spring into Horror: The Greatcoat by Helen Dunmore The Valley of …
April 1, 2018
Deal Me In, Week 13 ~ “The Dust Enclosed Here”
Hosted by Jay @ Bibliophilopolis What’s Deal Me In? “The Dust Enclosed Here” by Kage Baker Card picked: 7♥ Found at: Infinity Plus The Story Will Shakespeare is a holographic educational entertainment exhibit at Southwark Museum’s Globe Restored. He is programmed to recite certain sonnets and soliloquies that are still allowed by the Tri-World Council …
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March 31, 2018
Wrapping March 2018
Reading March got off to a rough start. It took me a while get into a groove. Books Finished: 5 (though two were novella length) Highlights: All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater (review to come), though Frankenstein Dreams is a strong runner-up. Books DNFed: 2 Short Stories Read: 37 Highlights: Rereads of “The Dancing …
March 28, 2018
Writing Update, 3/28
How’s It Going? It’s going well. I’ve done my first cull of stories I want to include in Our Past in the Uncanny Valley. I’m left with 19 stories which fall into roughly eight thematic periods. I’ve already formatted six of the stories. I’m still thinking about what I want to do for introductions. I …
