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December 20, 2018
Some Really Good Books I Read in 2018
Okay let’s have it. Your favourite end-of-year reading recommendations.From Jim
This year, it seems to me that there’s been a proliferation of Best Of lists in the crime writing community. More than I’ve ever seen before. But, unfortunately, there hasn’t been much of a proliferation of different titles or authors. We do tend to see the same names cropping up on most of the lists. I wish these lists could be called “Books That I Read and Enjoyed” in 2018. There are so many unnoticed books out t...
This year, it seems to me that there’s been a proliferation of Best Of lists in the crime writing community. More than I’ve ever seen before. But, unfortunately, there hasn’t been much of a proliferation of different titles or authors. We do tend to see the same names cropping up on most of the lists. I wish these lists could be called “Books That I Read and Enjoyed” in 2018. There are so many unnoticed books out t...
December 19, 2018
My year-end recommends
by Dietrich
In crime fiction, this year’s reading highlights for me included Dennis Lehane’s
The Drop
, published in 2014. The story starts with the main character finding a dog in a trash can, a good deed with consequences coming right behind it. It’s a great book by one of the best. And there’s
The Man Who Came Uptown
by George Pelecanos, published in 2018, about a guy struggling to do the right thing after making some bad choices. Published in 2015, I also want to recommend
Sing a Worried So...
In crime fiction, this year’s reading highlights for me included Dennis Lehane’s
The Drop
, published in 2014. The story starts with the main character finding a dog in a trash can, a good deed with consequences coming right behind it. It’s a great book by one of the best. And there’s
The Man Who Came Uptown
by George Pelecanos, published in 2018, about a guy struggling to do the right thing after making some bad choices. Published in 2015, I also want to recommend
Sing a Worried So...
December 18, 2018
Canadian eh?
By R.J. Harlick
Okay let’s have it. Your favourite end-of-year reading recommendations.
I’ve read a lot of good books this year, both crime fiction and general fiction. It’s a difficult decision, but here are five I enjoyed. I am concentrating on books by Canadian authors, since they are less known to readers to the south.
Warlight by multi-award winning author Michael Ondaatje, best known for his book The English Patient of movie fame. Though classed as Canlit, Warlight is in fac...
Okay let’s have it. Your favourite end-of-year reading recommendations.
I’ve read a lot of good books this year, both crime fiction and general fiction. It’s a difficult decision, but here are five I enjoyed. I am concentrating on books by Canadian authors, since they are less known to readers to the south.
Warlight by multi-award winning author Michael Ondaatje, best known for his book The English Patient of movie fame. Though classed as Canlit, Warlight is in fac...
December 16, 2018
Some of My Reading Faves - by Brenda Chapman
Question: Okay, let’s have it, your end-of-year reading recommends.
Seasons Greetings, everyone.
This week’s question has me thinking back over the books I read this year, and I have to say that there weren’t that many. I’ve spent most of my time working on a manuscript, editing a second and travelling. So, like Paul D. Marks who gave his classic book picks last week, I’m selecting a few crime fiction series from past reading that I enjoyed and believe you should have on your list. There...
December 14, 2018
Classic Year-End Reads
Okay, let’s have it, your end-of-year reading recommends.
by Paul D. Marks
To be honest, I never like answering questions like this. The main reason, as I believe I’ve mentioned before, is because if I recommend a contemporary’s book – or several contemporaries’ books – inevitably other people will be left out. And since I know a lot of contemporary writers I always feel bad recommending someone’s book but not someone else’s. I may even like the left out book but just forgot to include it...
by Paul D. Marks
To be honest, I never like answering questions like this. The main reason, as I believe I’ve mentioned before, is because if I recommend a contemporary’s book – or several contemporaries’ books – inevitably other people will be left out. And since I know a lot of contemporary writers I always feel bad recommending someone’s book but not someone else’s. I may even like the left out book but just forgot to include it...
December 13, 2018
A Year of Books
By Catriona.
I always start the year with good intentions: I'm going to write down everything I've read and make a note of what books are eligible for the various awards I get to nominate for - Leftys, Agathas and Anthonys. Usually, it all falls apart sometime in the summer. This year, for no reason I can find, I stuck with it. Here are the results.
Read: 68
crime fiction: 42
other fiction: 12
biography: 5
other non-fiction: 9
And I've managed to compose a top five. In no particular order:
Anna Quind...
I always start the year with good intentions: I'm going to write down everything I've read and make a note of what books are eligible for the various awards I get to nominate for - Leftys, Agathas and Anthonys. Usually, it all falls apart sometime in the summer. This year, for no reason I can find, I stuck with it. Here are the results.
Read: 68
crime fiction: 42
other fiction: 12
biography: 5
other non-fiction: 9
And I've managed to compose a top five. In no particular order:
Anna Quind...
December 12, 2018
For your enjoyment...by Cathy Ace
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December 11, 2018
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December 10, 2018
Q: End of year recommended books?From SusanMy crime ficti...
Q: End of year recommended books?
From Susan
My crime fiction reading was haphazard but enjoyable this year. I read less because I took on some non-fiction recommended by others to help cope with our national, um, circumstances. But I kept buying books, which means I either retire to my bed to read non-stop while drinking hot chocolate, or postpone to 2019 many undoubtedly excellent books to read and report on. But here are a few that I loved, not all of them new in 2018:
THERE, THEREby Tommy Or...
From Susan
My crime fiction reading was haphazard but enjoyable this year. I read less because I took on some non-fiction recommended by others to help cope with our national, um, circumstances. But I kept buying books, which means I either retire to my bed to read non-stop while drinking hot chocolate, or postpone to 2019 many undoubtedly excellent books to read and report on. But here are a few that I loved, not all of them new in 2018:
THERE, THEREby Tommy Or...
December 7, 2018
Style Over Habit
Do you sometimes change your work habits, or is it better to keep things consistent?
As folks retire and frontlists free up for a host of reasons, we authors maximize our value in the supply chain by writing enough books with our names on them to create demand. To accomplish that feat takes volume, which we can't produce on our own, so we need the industry, far more than it needs us.
That's the author's market position in publishing.
How badly does the marketplace need another book from me, a...
As folks retire and frontlists free up for a host of reasons, we authors maximize our value in the supply chain by writing enough books with our names on them to create demand. To accomplish that feat takes volume, which we can't produce on our own, so we need the industry, far more than it needs us.
That's the author's market position in publishing.
How badly does the marketplace need another book from me, a...
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