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Category Archives: Book Reviews
Who Fears Death
My comments on Who Fears Death are posted at fanlit.
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Jon Courtenay Grimwood
By the end of the week I plan to send a review and an interview with British writer Jon Courtenay Grimwood to Fanlit. I will link to it here, but obviously the content is theirs first, so I probably won’t … Continue reading
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Mechanique
My review of Mechanique; a Tale of the Circus Tresaulti is now posted at fanlit.
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The Informationist
I bought The Informationist at Darvil’s Bookstore in Eastsound, Washington, on Orcas Island. It’s interesting that the city of Salinas, California, with a population of 150,000, can’t support a bookstore, but the island, whose year-round population is probably about 5,000, … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Darvil's Bookstore, Eastsound Washington, Taylor Stevens, The Informationist
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Checking In
Well, I see I’ve let time get by me and haven’t posted anything lately. In a few hours, or maybe tomorrow, I plan to have some comments up about a book called The Informationist, an engrossing if slightly derivative thriller … Continue reading
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Breaking Point
“Hi. Here’s my business card. I’m not a copper — I did used to be but I got struck off for drug abuse. I’m really a scientist; no, really, I am. I study genetics. As you might remember, you donated … Continue reading
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Let the Right One In
My comments on the Swedish horror novel Let the Right One In are posted on fanlit. I never reviewed this book on my site, so this is a brand new review. Enjoy! (Well, it’s a a bleak vampire novel, so … Continue reading
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The Glister
My comments about John Burnside’s literary horror novel The Glister are up at Fanlit. If you read my comments here, you will find the fanlit review pretty similar, but a little shorter. Posting it reminded me what a good stylist … Continue reading
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I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
Alan Bradley scores again with I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, the latest Flavia de Luce mystery. Eleven-year-old Flavia is the youngest de Luce daughter, a chemist and de facto detective, solving mysteries in her moldering ancestral mansion, Buckshaw. In Shadows, … Continue reading
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Tagged Agatha Christie, Alan Bradley, British manor house, Flavia de Luce, Lady of Shallot, mystery, Tennyson
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The Books We Got for Christmas– 2011
I got two fantasy books for Christmas; The Bards of the Bone Plain by Patricia McKillip and a slim Charles de Lint book, Medicine Road. Spouse got the book on the Royal Society, Seeing Further, which was edited by Bill … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Four Eyed Frog, Game of Thrones, Haruki Murakami, Inside of a Dog
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