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Nothin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion by Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock
Watching television is not an activity.
Latest Kindle novel: The Brand of Silence (1919) by Harrington Strong (aka Johnston McCulley) .
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A bat! That's it! It's an omen.. I'll shall become a bat!
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Finally got around to 'Jane Eyre'. I'm only 1/4 the way in, but I can't believe I've slept on this for so long...
“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.”
I just finished THE OVERSTORY by Richard Powers. Really cool book.
Just started reading on my Kindle the short-story collection The King in Yellow (1895) by Robert W. Chambers.
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I finished reading an advance copy of the upcoming new Country Store mystery NO GRATER CRIME by Maddie Day. I loved it and my review of the book can be seen via this Goodreads.com link.
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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 books I'm reading: Daniel Webster: The Man and His Times (1997) by Robert Remini...
... and on my Kindle, The Mystery of the Barranca (1913) by Herman Whitaker.
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Finished reading the Library of America's complete novels of Dashiell Hammett. Overall, I think I respect Hammett more than I actually enjoy them, but I did enjoy The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man quite a bit. (I did skip The Glass Key)
I've started the LOA's first volume dedicated to Raymond Chandler (covering a handful of his short stories and the novels The Big Sleep, Farwell, My Lovely, and The High Window). I am now about halfway through The Big Sleep and Chandler's voice and style are something to behold. I find myself re-reading certain paragraphs because they are so well written.
"Over the entrance doors, which would have let in a troop of Indian elephants, there was a broad stained-glass panel showing a knight in dark armor rescuing a lady who was tied to a tree and didn't have any clothes on but some very long and convenient hair. The knight had pushed the vizor of his helmet back to be sociable, and he was fiddling with the knots on the ropes that tied the lady to the tree and not getting anywhere. I stood there and thought that if I lived in the house, I would sooner or later have to climb up there and help him. He didn't seem to be really trying."
I finished reading the Eva Gates mystery novel A Death Long Overdue.
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.