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FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #744: DEADLY WOMEN: THE WOMAN MYSTERY READER’S INDISPENSABLE COMPANION Edited by Jan Grape, Dean James & Ellen NehrIt’s been over 20 years since Ellen Nehr called me up and asked if I would write an article for a project she was working on:...
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LIVE AT BLUES ALLEY By Eva Cassidy and PEAKIN’ AT THE BEACON By Allman Brothers BandEva Cassidy’s Live at Blues Alley was originally self-released in May 1996. The album was recorded live at the Blues Alley...
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WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #126: GODS AND MORTALS: ANCIENT GREEK MYTHS FOR MODERN READERS By Sarah Iles JohnstonA few weeks ago, I read and reviewed ARCADIAN DAYS: GODS, WOMEN, AND MEN FROM GREEK MYTHS by John Spurling (you can read my post here...
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AIR [AMAZON Prime Video]Air was in the theaters a month ago, but I decided to wait until it came to a streaming service we had on our TV. Sure enough, AMAZON...
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MICKEY 7 By Edward AshtonOn a distant planet a human colony is struggling to survive with a colder than predicted climate and problems growing food. They are...
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I IS AN OTHER: THE SECRET LIFE OF METAPHOR AND HOW IT SHAPES THE WAY WE SEE THE WORLD By James GearyJames Geary’s I Is an Other (2011) explores metaphors and how they work (or don’t work). Here are some examples of metaphors...
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FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #743: THE UNCOLLECTED ESSAYS OF ELIZABETH HARDWICKI’ve enjoyed Elizabeth Hardwick’s essays over the years so this new collection of Hardwick’s more obscure essays...
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THAT FEELS GOOD! By Jessie Ware and DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE’S A TUNNEL UNDER OCEAN BLVD By Lana Del ReyI spent most of last week listening to new music CDs. The two I enjoyed the most are Jessie Ware’s That Feels Good! and Lana Del...
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WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #126: THE MIND SPIDER AND OTHER STORIES By Fritz LeiberCOVER ARTWORK BY WALTER RANE I became a Fritz Leiber fan when I read his classic SF novel, The Big Time (1958). It was...
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LOVE TO LOVE YOU DONNA SUMMER [HBO]I became a fan of Donna Summer the first time I heard “Love to Love You, Baby,” where the final recording lasted over 16...
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THE PERFECT MURDER: A GUIDE TO THE BEST MYSTERIES EVER WRITTEN By David LehmanAfter reading David Lehman’s The Most Mysterious Romance of Murder (you can read my review here ), I decided to go back and...
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BABEL: AN ARCANE HISTORY By R. F. KuangColonialism, imperialism, secrets, and mysticism collide in this magic-imbued meditation on the power of words, who wields it, and how...
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UNCOMMON MEASURE: A JOURNEY THROUGH MUSIC, PERFORMANCE, AND THE SCIENCE OF TIME By Natalie Hodges“For my mother… [it was] sidelong looks, people moving away from her in the post office or the grocery store; in the man who...
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FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #742: THE EMERALD ATLAS, THE FIRE CHRONICLE, and THE BOOKS OF BEGINNING By John StephensTHE BOOKS OF BEGINNING TRILOGY Just by chance I picked up this Young Adult trilogy at a Library Book Sale. They had a Harry...
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TRAILER PARK By Beth Orton and ELDORADO: A SYMPHONY by THE ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRAI first hear Beth Orton’s Trailer Park (1996) near the end of the 20th Century. I heard Orton’s cover of The Ronettes...
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WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #125: THE COLLECTED ENCHANTMENTS By Theodora GossCOVER ART BY CATRIN WELZ-STEIN I’ve been a fan of Theodora Goss’s writing for years. I loved Goss’s The Strange...
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WHITE HOUSE PLUMBERS [HBO]White House Plumbers is an American satirical political drama television miniseries created and written...
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AN ADMIRABLE POINT: A BRIEF HISOTRY OF THE EXCLAMATION MARK! By Florence HazardI have been accused of using too many exclamation points (aka, exclamation marks in the UK)–mostly by Cap’n Bob. But...
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STAR WARS VISIONS, CHAPTER 2 [Disney+]“The second volume of Star Wars Visions expanded the show’s reach to various studios across the globe. This new series...
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FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #741: FOOLS DIE ON FRIDAY By Erle Stanley GardnerCOVER BY RICKY MUJICA As you can see on the cover of this new edition of Fools Die on Friday (1947), Raymond Chandler wrote to...
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CLASSIC ROCK: 1965 [Time-Life]Since no Beatles songs were included on Classic Rock: 1965 this compilation gives a skewed picture of the music of 1965. Yes, Motown...
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WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #124: I AM A DALEK By Gareth Roberts (Doctor Who: Quick Reads Book 1)Once again I was surprised to learn about a book series I didn’t know existed. I picked up this slim paperback (105 pages of BIG...
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BILLY JOEL LIVE AT SHEA STADIUM: THE CONCERT [DVD]Billy Joel performed two concerts at Shea Stadium in New York City on July 16 and 18 of 2008. This DVD version was released on...
