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March 2, 2018
Review ~ Eyeing the Flash
Eyeing the Flash: The Making of a Carnival Con Artist by Peter Fenton The year is 1963, the setting small-town Michigan. Pete Fenton is just another well-mannered math student until he meets Jackie Barron, a teenage grifter who introduces him to the carnival underworld — and lures him with the cons, the double-dealing, and, most …
March 1, 2018
March 2018 TBR
Trapped in Whittier by Michael W. Layne – I had book two in this series on my TBR challenge list, but I’m trading it out for book one…which I also own and have had on my TBR pile for a long while. The Infamous Harry Hayward: A True Account of Murder and Mesmerism in …
February 28, 2018
Wrapping February 2018
Reading Pretty good month, progress-wise, though I feel like I haven’t read anything! Books Finished: 5 Highlights: On the Wrong Track by Steve Hockensmith Books DNFed: 1 Short Stories Read: 15 Highlights: “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” by Arthur Conan Doyle Challenge Updates: FrankenSlam! – Read a bit of Lives of the Noble Grecians …
February 26, 2018
Down the TBR Hole #9
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 …
February 24, 2018
Deal Me In, Week 8 ~ “Three Questions”
Hosted by Jay @ Bibliophilopolis What’s Deal Me In? “Three Questions” by Amy Aderman Card picked: J♦ ~ Fantasy genre suit Found at: Daily Science Fiction The Story The bean nighe is never wrong. She sits by a stream, washing the clothes of those soon to die. The water runs red with blood but the …
February 22, 2018
Review ~ On the Wrong Track
On the Wrong Track by Steve Hockensmith It might be 1893 and the modern world may in full-swing, but cowboy Gustav “Old Red” Amlingmeyer is an old-fashioned kind of guy: he prefers a long trail ride even when a train could get him where he’s going in one-tenth the time. His brother Otto (“Big Red”), …
February 19, 2018
It’s Monday, What Are You… 2/19
…Reading? I finished Hunger by Roxane Gay and On the Wrong Track by Steve Hockensmith last week. I’ve also delved into some Doctor Who comics since I’ve been in a Doctor Who mood. This week: Starting: Eyeing the Flash: The Making of a Carnival Con Artist by Peter Fenton Still working on: Frankenstein Dreams: A …
