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June 22, 2013
No Excuses
Apparently, I’m bored with the Weekly Linkroll thing. Just seem to have lost my gumption where that’s concerned. Of course, I have excuses I could use: all the gardening that’s been happening… when it’s not raining and raining and raining, which was getting old and depressing… And then we had company last weekend! R’s sister […]
June 17, 2013
Monday Morning Music
So, this morning’s video came by a twisty-turny sort of path. To start with, I was listening to a lot of Roy Rogers during my commute last week. I mean this guy: That Roy Rogers is one of my favorite slide guitarists. I love some good slide guitar. Browsing through Youtube, though, none of his […]
June 12, 2013
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin – A Review
Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky, seat of the ruling Arameri family. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily […]
June 10, 2013
Monday Morning Music
Morning, everyone! I don’t seem to be able to get the Weekly Linkroll up on Sundays, but Monday Morning Music is never a problem. Gee, lying on the couch, watching music videos for hours? I can do that. Today’s video came about thanks to the music exchange group R & I belong to. One of […]
June 3, 2013
Monday Morning Music
Flashback time this Monday morning. Hearing about Billie Jean King‘s commencement speech yesterday got me in a nostalgic mood, I guess. While she was hitting tennis balls around at the conclusion of her talk, this song was played. Elton John and Bernie Taupin wrote “Philadelphia Freedom” for King and the tennis team she formed in […]
June 2, 2013
Weekly Linkroll
Summer has arrived in Vermont, at least for the weekend. Hot and muggy and time to clean the carpets? Yeah, don’t ask. But they’re mostly done, and I’m recuperating on the couch with a cold drink and links for you. Enjoy! What Do We Really Know About Vampires? From R.G. Emanuelle at Women & Words. […]
May 30, 2013
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley – A Review
I saw — with shut eyes, but acute mental vision — I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an […]
May 28, 2013
Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge
I don’t normally do reading challenges. Not that I’m all superior to them or anything. I just hate taking on obligations I may not be able to meet. That, and, well yeah, I’ll read what I want when I want, thanks very much, is usually how I feel. That said, this year’s challenge from Worlds […]
The Daughter Star – Guest Post
Today I have the pleasure of turning over the mic to Susan Jane Bigelow so she can share her thoughts about her new book, THE DAUGHTER STAR. Published by Candlemark & Gleam, it’s out today! I first discovered Bigelow and her writing when I read BROKEN (Extrahumans #1), her debut novel from 2011. It’s a […]
May 27, 2013
Monday Morning Music
Look at my blue eyes, look at my brown hair, look at my color. What color do you see?” he demand [sic] to know. “My mother was 100 per cent white,” Jeffries said, his blue eyes glinting in the New York sun. “My father is Portuguese, Spanish, American Indian, and Negro. How in the hell […]
