Here's my Mystery Scene magazine review of the S.L. McInnis thriller Framed.
Here's my Mystery Scene magazine review of the S.L. McInnis thriller Framed.
Beth Hart - Fire On The Floor CD Review
Beth Hart February 23rd, 2017 Boston, MA Concert Review
"I can't complain. I got to be Jim Morrison for the first half of my life, and Ward Cleaver for the second half." - Warren Zevon.
Newest book to read: Bob Dole: The Republicans' Man for All Seasons (1994) by Jake H. Thompson. It was a Christmas gift 25 years ago, so I figured it was about time I take it on.
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I think i’ll give The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857) another try. I love Melville but goddamn his books can be a slog.
Clive Cussler has passed away.
Beth Hart - Fire On The Floor CD Review
Beth Hart February 23rd, 2017 Boston, MA Concert Review
"I can't complain. I got to be Jim Morrison for the first half of my life, and Ward Cleaver for the second half." - Warren Zevon.
One of my favorites, going all the way back to the late '70s when Raise the Titanic was a newspaper comic strip (I read the Dirk Pitt-starring book a few years later in high school). In recent years, I have been reading his turn-of-the-last-century-set Isaac Bell novels and have one in my reading pile to go through sometime this year.
RIP
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Newest Kindle read: Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926) by T.E. Lawrence.
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My recent reads
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“We have a saying, my people. Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue if you can pacify, and don’t raise your hand at all until you’ve first extended it.”
Latest book I'm reading: The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus. I know I read it in high school back in the early '80s, but I can't recall if it was the entire novella or just a chapter or two (I do remember that it was the first time I ever discussed existentialism). At any rate, I'll be a more conscientious reader this time.
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The Rebels' Hour by Lieve Joris
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'Much more than a portrait of a Congolese herd boy who becomes an important military man, THE REBELS' HOUR is the portrait of a vast and chaotic country in a state of near-anarchy. I have long admired Ms Joris's African books, but this one is both powerful and timely, intensely imagined.'-Paul Theroux
"So you've come to the end now alive but dead inside."
Jesus Freaks - a book on the children of God cult. It focuses on Davidito aka Ricky Rodriguez a boy raised in the cult to be its messiah who later went on to try and kill his own mother, co-founder Karen Zerby, for leaving him exposed to brainwashing and abuse..
(While I'm here) What do you think are some UNDER-published books you feel deserve more exposure?
My nominees are Frank L Baum's sequels to Wizard of Oz, Thomas Harris' Black Sunday and Peter Reich's A book of dreams. And YOU?
I finished reading the Joanna Schaffhausen mystery All The Best Lies. Here's my Goodreads review.
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New book: Baseball's Western Front: The Pacific Coast League During World War II (2004) by Donald R. Wells. Though not like getting an autograph from Stephen King or J.K. Rowling , I had it signed by the author at a SABR convention.
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New Orleans and Chicago histories always seem to be the best to me
Surely not everybody was kung fu fighting
Latest read: the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (1979) by Edmund Morris, the first of a trilogy of books about the 26th president (I read the second book from the series Theodore Rex a few years back).
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I finished reading the J.A. Konrath thriller Whiskey Sour.
Beth Hart - Fire On The Floor CD Review
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"I can't complain. I got to be Jim Morrison for the first half of my life, and Ward Cleaver for the second half." - Warren Zevon.