Monthly Archives: March 2012

Jefferson Awards

Here are Sonoma County’s local Jefferson Awardees this year. The Jefferson Awards are given to local, regional and national volunteers — sort of a Nobel prize for volunteers. Sorry the pictures are so bad. I had to hold the camera … Continue reading

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Outcast Blade

My review of The Outcast Blade, by Jon Courtenay Grimwood, and the interview with him, is posted at fantasyliterature. You can find it by clicking on the author link, going to G for Grimwood, etc, or Fanlit Features, author interviews.

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The Chalk Girl

The Chalk Girl is Carol O’Connell’s latest Mallory mystery. Mallory is back on the job at NYPD, with no explanation for her three-month absence (except we know, because we read Find Me). If any further proof were needed that the … Continue reading

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Healdsburg; More Than Wine

  The Healdsburg Museum occupies the building that used to hold the town library. I remember going there when I was a kid. The pillars by the door made me think I was entering a temple. I can’t remember any … Continue reading

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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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Cartoonist in Residence

  Brian Fies gave a presentation at the Charles Schulz Museum Saturday. He was upstairs in the education center, a nice-sized classroom with plenty of art supplies, several statements made by Schulz painted on the walls, and a large porthole. … Continue reading

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Main Street Character?

The city council is trying to rescue a grove of virgin redwoods that grows in the center of town – oh, no, wait, that isn’t right. The city council is trying to rescue a series of vernal pools, home to … 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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2/19/12; A Flag for Faith

  Faith joined the US Navy, the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services), after Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941. She ended up assigned to Washington DC, where she met my mom. (They both worked in a code-breaking unit.) … Continue reading

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