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Damn it! Wait your turn!
The title of this entry comes from one of my favorite cartoons. If you don’t want to click, it’s a drawing of a man lying in a hammock holding a flyswatter and smacking away at books flying up at him...
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Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine blog
A blog for EQMM! Something Is Going to Happen In years past, my routine fix of EQMM arrived (eventually) in the mail via the Army APO system. Those of us who spent many years overseas were resigned...
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Top 10 Detectives
One question circulating on an email list is which fictional detectives are the list-members’ favorites. As a long-time reader of mystery/suspense stories, I do have my preferences, but it surprised...
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Donna Leon
In other news, I am presently enjoying Donna Leon’s latest book Beastly Things.
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Blogs worth reading
I can’t write about my fiction because, first off, it’s not yet published and that makes the stories difficult to promote. They are accumulating, but the process is slow. I also can’t write about my...
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Reading: something old, something new
On an email list, the question of the week was what titles the members had read this month. I decided to answer it, just for fun, out of curiosity about how many books I had read. I didn’t think it...
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Publarium computatis
Magic. E-publishing is magic. Until about half an hour ago, I had a “Kindle app” only on my Ipod Touch I-gizmo. For most purposes, reading on the I-gizmo was satisfactory but lately I’ve been buying...
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And the future-shocks just keep on coming
By no means am I on the cutting edge of anything. In my literary life, I still haven’t recovered from: the loss of my local bookstore the disappearance of B. Dalton & Walden Books A Common Reader...
View ArticleHappy New Year
Again, instead of making resolutions, I’m re-reading Barbara Holland’s 1995 book, Endangered Pleasures: In Defense of Naps, Bacon, Martinis, Profanity, and Other Indulgences. Happy New Year!
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Virtual travel back to Scotland’s isles
Two years ago, I made a virtual visit to Shetland using Google Maps after watching a television version of Ann Cleves’s book, Dead Water. This time, my virtual visit is to the Isle of Lewis. Lewis is...
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