Reblogged: ‘Just My Type – A Book About Fonts’ by Simon Garfield – NYTimes.com
Reblogged: ‘Just My Type – A Book About Fonts’ by Simon Garfield – NYTimes.com. Having finished Just My Type, an entertaining look at the things we take…
On the Lookout for Books and Movies
Having just completed another parallel post season with my partner Rachel, the blogger otherwise known as the Scientist Gone Wordy, we came up with a notion. Usually around this time…
Stephen, Carrie, Chloë and Sissy
Admittedly, I became hooked on horror as a pre-teen watching movies at home and on the big screen. Later, it’d be friends at work who’d turn me on to Stephen King,…
Reblogged » Jen’s Book Thoughts: Any Other Name – Craig Johnson
Reblogged» Jen’s Book Thoughts: Any Other Name – Craig Johnson Having just finished the latest Walt Longmire novel by Craig Johnson, Any Other Name, I’m again…
Reprise » Muy Bruen
Some years ago, with encouragement by my friends Jen Forbus and Corey Wilde, I finally took the plunge and dived into a novel by author Ken Bruen. I reserve the right to insert…
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
Originally posted on Feminist Texican Reads:
I spent part of the summer of 2012 reading — and falling deeply in love with — Alexandre Dumas’s The…
Book & Audiobook Review: Suspect by Robert Crais
“The man’s breathing grew shallow and steady, his heartbeat slowed, and when the surge of his pulse grew no slower, Maggie knew he was sleeping. She…
Son of Danse Macabre eBook Review
“Horror is defined by most as a subsection of the Fantasy genre, though I prefer Neil Gaiman’s metaphor of horror and fantasy as sister cities with…
Drive Book/Audiobook Review
Hardcover Publisher: Poison Pen Press (September 1, 2005) ISBN: 978-1590581810 Softcover Publisher: Mariner Books (August 30, 2011) ISBN: 0547791097 Audiobook Publisher: Blackstone Audio (August 1, 2007)…
The Stand Audiobook Review
There was a time, decades ago, I read every single Stephen King book being published. Nowadays, I pick and choose between the more recent stuff of…
January Reads Part 2
« Part 1 Many times, I write in reaction to others. And what I write about is supposed to be across the popular arts. Of late,…
January Reads Part 1
Many times, I write in reaction to others. And what I write about is supposed to be across the popular arts. Of late, that’s been film,…
Time to Plug ‘Plugged’
While I’m jetting my way toward St. Louis, MO, and my first Bouchercon, I thought I’d offer the following review since the book made an impression.…
Reprise: Grand It Is, Too
There was a prime reason I made it a point to read The Drowning Machine book blog when I started web logging myself. It all came down…
The Princess Bride Film (& Disc) Review
Though my blogging friend Rachel (from Scientist Gone Wordy) and I have done a small number of what I’ve termed ‘parallel posts’ (separate reviews of a specific…
It Rains... You Get Wet 