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BUFFALO BILLS VS NY JETS [ESPN]The Buffalo Bills are 2 1/2 point favorites over the NY Jets in this game. The addition of Aaron Rodgers in the off-season fired up Jets...
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NFL WEEK ONE!When the Mighty Detroit Lions shocked the Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs a few nights ago, that signaled that this NFL season...
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UNNATURAL MAGIC and THE RUTHLESS LADY’S GUIDE TO WIZARDRY By C. M. WaggonerUnnatural Magic (2019) starts with the struggles of a gifted girl, Onna Gebowa, who lives in the tiny town of Cordridge-on-Sea (known...
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FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #757: HIDDEN EMPIRE: THE SAGA OF SEVEN SUNS, BOOK 1 By Kevin J. AndersonKevin J. Anderson has written over 120 books–he’s best known for the Dune series written with Frank Herbert’s son,...
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RETRO 70sThis is the end of my three-week fling with Seventies music. But Retro 70s is a good place to wrap things up. This is one of the few...
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WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #140: THE KILLER EVERYONE KNEW AND OTHER CAPTAIN LEOPOLD STORIES By Edward D. HochEd Hoch wrote over 100 stories featuring Captain Leopold and Crippen & Landru’s new The Killer Everyone Knew collects 15 of...
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BOUCHERCON 2023: MURDER AT THE MARINA, THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLYDiane and I met up with Katie and Patrick at the San Diego Airport on August 30. Patrick and Katie spent the previous weekend in Vegas...
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I WANT TO KEEP SMASHING MYSELF UNTIL I AM WHOLE: AN ELIAS CANETTI READERCOVER ART BY IAN WOODS “There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown.” (p. 312) Elias Canetti,...
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THE LEFT-HANDED BOOKSELLERS OF LONDON and THE SINISTER BOOKSELLERS OF BATH By Garth NixI’ve enjoyed Garth Nix’s tales of Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz (you can read my review here ) so I decided to try...
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FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #756: ROD SERLING’S TRIPLE W: WITCHES, WARLOCKS, AND WEREWOLVESRod Serling’s Triple W: Witches, Warlocks and Werewolves from 1963 seems like a perfect anthology to include in the...
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ROCK ON 1970 and ULTIMATE SEVENTIES: 1970Here are two different perceives on the music of 1970. Rock On 1970 includes B. B. King’s classic “The Thrill is...
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WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #139: SIR HEREWARD AND MISTER FITZ: STORIES OF THE WITCH KNIGHT AND THE PUPPET SORCERER By Garth NixGarth Nix, in his informative Introduction, tells the origin story of Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz. Nix, like many of us, is a fan of...
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Ahsoka [Disney+]Disney+ dropped the first two episodes (of eight) last week. Ahsoka is an American television miniseries created and written by Dave...
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RHYME’S ROOMS: THE ARCHITECTURE OF POETRY By Brad LeithauserIf you love poetry as much as I do, you’ll delight in Brad Leithauser’s Rhyme’s Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry...
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AESOP’S TRAVELS By Daniel BoydI’ve reviewed novels by Daniel Boyd (aka, Dan Stumpf) and you can check out those posts here and here . This new novel,...
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CHECKOUT 19 By Claire-Louise BennettI heard a Nation Public Radio interview with Claire-Louise Bennett. Bennett talked about Checkout 19 as a book about books. That...
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FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #755: LIVING IN THE FUTURE By Robert SilverbergThanks to Todd Mason alerting me to the publishing of this book by the North East Science Fiction Association (NESFA) Press. I ordered...
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BARRY WILLIAMS PRESENTS ONE -HIT WONDERS OF THE 70sI was familiar with all the songs on Barry Williams Presents One-Hit Wonders of the 70s except for “Life is a Rock (But the Radio...
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WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #138: CASCOR By Matthew HughesCascor, Matthew Hughes new collection of short stories, weighs in at over 500 pages. Stories like “Stones and Glass” and...
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HEART OF STONE [Netflix]Gal Gadot (aka, Wonder Woman) stars in Heart of Stone, a spy thriller where Gadot’s character infiltrates MI6 in order to...
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THE WORLD: A FAMILY HISTORY OF HUMANITY By Simon Sebag MontefioreWeighing in at 1304 pages, THE WORLD: A FAMILY HISTORY OF HUMANITY by Simon Sebag Montefiore certainly qualifies as a Big Fat Book....
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THE SPARE MAN By Mary Robinette KowalI’ve read two novels recently–Charles Stross’s Season of Skulls and Martha Wells’s Witch King –which the...
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HOW DO WE KNOW OURSELVES? CURIOSITIES AND MARVELS OF THE HUMAN MIND By David G. MyersDavid G. Myers is a social psychologist and professor at (ironically!) Hope College in Michigan. Myers discusses the latest research...
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FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #754: MURDER BY THE BOOK: MYSTERIES FOR BIBLIOPHILES Edited by Martin EdwardsA couple days ago I reviewed Otto Penzler’s Golden Age Bibliomysteries (you can read my review here ) so I figured I’d...
