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August 6, 2020
Dewey’s 24-Hour “Reverse” Readathon 2020
Friday & Saturday, Aug. 7th-8th, is the second annual “Reverse” 24-hour Readathon. What’s reverse about it? Instead of starting (in the US) Saturday morning, it starts Friday evening. So, for me in Arizona, it will start at 5pm on Friday instead of 5am Saturday. Will I end up reading more than I usually do during …
August 2, 2020
Sunday Salon, 8/2
Reading Past Finished The Beggar Queen before the the end of July. I even posted some thoughts on Lloyd Alexander’s Westmark trilogy! Also caught up on my Deal Me In reading, though I’m not back on the commentary wagon there. On a nostalgia-powered whim, I decided to reread A Room with a View by E. …
July 30, 2020
{Books} The Westmark Trilogy
Theo, by occupation, was a devil. That is, he worked as apprentice and general servant to Anton, the printer. … Accidentally, he had learned to read, which in some opinion spoiled him for anything sensible. So begins Lloyd Alexander’s Westmark trilogy (Westmark, The Kestrel, and The Beggar Queen). Alexander is more popularly known for the …
July 27, 2020
Sunday (Monday) Salon, 7/27
Reading Past Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic had to go back to the library before I was finished. It’s not that I wasn’t enjoying it, but it hadn’t caught fire for me either. Plus, I’m in a little bit of a reading slump. I’ll probably give it another go someday when other people aren’t waiting to …
July 19, 2020
Sunday Salon, 7/19
Reading Before I got too far in Robert W. Chambers’ The King in Yellow, Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia came off-hold from the online library. I placed the hold back when it was still pre-release and I was a few down the list. I figured I wouldn’t get a shot at it until sometime next …
July 14, 2020
{Books} Two Short Reviews
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark was the July pick for the Occult Detective Book Club (a group on Facebook and Goodreads, if you’re into such literature). It is set in the same universe of “A Dead Djinn in Cairo” which I read and enjoyed …
July 12, 2020
Sunday Salon, 7/12
It’s summer in Phoenix. My least favorite season. We broke the July 12th record today with a temp of 116F! The impending week looks like more of the same. We’re on day 92 of no rain. If I could hibernate until the equinox, I would. Reading Reviewed The Changeling by Victor LaValle! TLDR: I really …
July 7, 2020
{Book} The Changeling
The Changeling by Victor LaValle Apollo Kagwa has had strange dreams that have haunted him since childhood. An antiquarian book dealer with a business called Improbabilia, he is just beginning to settle into his new life as a committed and involved father, unlike his own father who abandoned him, when his wife Emma begins acting …
July 5, 2020
Sunday Salon, 7/5
If you’re in the US, I hope you all had a safe and maybe introspective July 4th. Eric and I stayed in, which is what we would have done anyway. Reading Meant to get a review of The Changeling up, but didn’t. Aw, well. I got a draft and I should post on Tuesday. Re-read …
June 28, 2020
Sunday Salon, 6/28
It has not been a great week. I have tried to be optimistic about the course of the pandemic, but I feel pretty dumb about that now. Mask-wearing has become a divisive political issue. There are people protesting a public health measure with a vehement true-believer-ship that cannot be reasoned with. And that makes me …
