In memory of our brother John.
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WEDNESDAY READING LISTS
Joe Barone's Blog
- Joe Barone
- All the books I write about here are books I've either bought or borrowed from a library. This blog is just a record of my weekly reading. I don't accept ARCs for review, though I appreciate those who do because their blogs clue me in to new books.
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A Night at the Movies: Crime Movies - With the *Oscar Awards* coming up tomorrow night, I thought I'd revisit the *Top 100 Crime Movies of All Time*, according to the *Masters in Criminal Just...
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TV News: The Fall - This one passed me by earlier this month, a new crime drama, to be filmed in Belfast, called The Fall and starring Gillian Anderson, has been announced by ...5 hours ago
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“Deathly” Public Service Ads - When I stumble across skull optical illusions, I’m very picky when deciding which ones deserve to be featured on Mighty Optical Illusions homepage. It’s no...5 hours ago
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Desert Wind by Betty Webb - On the jacket of Betty Webb's latest Lena Jones mystery, *Desert Wind*, David Morrell is quoted as saying, "A must-read." It is. Webb has tackled tough su...
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A Mild-Mannered Weekly Link Round-Up - This week started off with great news: a dear friend of ours will be visiting in March. He's one of the rarest of guests: someone whom you wish would nev...
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"The Baker's Daughter" - Sarah McCoy is the author of the novels The Baker's Daughter (Crown) and The Time It Snowed In Puerto Rico (Random House). The Baker's Daughter released on J...
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My Visit With the Gods - I’ve often wished there were a way to journey back to the heyday of the ancient Greek gods. Just to drop in, say “Hi,” and ask what they think of our cu...
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A web series based on Charles Willeford’s The Shark Infested Custard - Apparently there is going to be a web series based on Willeford’s The Shark Infested Custard called Strange and you guys didn’t tell me. Strange was the or...20 hours ago
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Review: DEATH OF AN EXPERT WITNESS, P.D. James - audio - - published by Chivers Audio books, available from Audible.com - unabridged, 9 hrs and 52 mins, 8 CDs - first published in 1977 - #6 in the ...21 hours ago
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THE SUMMING UP, Feburary 24, 2012 - Check out my review of CHRONICLE. THE SUMMING UP, Feburary 24, 2012 Patti Abbott, The Summing Up, W. Somerset Maugham Sergio Angelini, The Empty Hours, Ed...22 hours ago
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Amateurish prose - *I*'m between books, browsing, reading a few pages, picking them up, putting them down, and I'm also busy with non-blog matters. So you'll have to bear wit...1 day ago
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Writerly Insecurity & Pushing Ourselves Out of Comfort Zones - *by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig* [image: 032]Last weekend, I was in South Carolina for the Festival of the Arts in the town of Anderson. I’m o...
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Breathing Space - Yesterday, I was talking to Edie, another of our wonderful writers here at Magical Musings. I told her I needed a blog topic for today. Part of the reason ...1 day ago
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FACES OF THE GONE – Brad Parks - As I look forward to reading the third book in this series, I am posting a review of the first book. I definitely recommend this series and there is tim...1 day ago
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books - The Adventures of Romney Pringle - British author R. Austin Freeman (1862-1943) primarily wrote detective stories and is best known for his legal/forensic investigator Dr. John Thorndyke, us...1 day ago
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Path Back to “War” - Following one abrupt cancellation by British network ITV (in 2007), a subsequent resurrection (brought about by viewer demand), and then a seeming conclusi...1 day ago
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MYSTERY LOVERS BOOKSHOP SEEKS A NEW OWNER - [image: mysteryloverscat_logo]Wonderful independent bookstores abound from Portland, Oregon's Murder by the Book to Centuries & Sleuths in Forest Park, I...1 day ago
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BAD MOON - Todd Ritter - *First line: *“It was the baby, of all things, that woke her up.” In July of 1969 Neil Armstrong walked on the moon and Charlie Olmstead disappeared. Char...
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Review: Defending Jacob by William Landay - Links: Amazon, Amazon UK, Book Depository UK I decided to read this following a ringing endorsement by Joseph Finder hailing it as one of the best books of...5 days ago
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HIGH ADVENTURE by Donald E. Westlake - Pilot Kirby Galway is having a bad week. He has two different customers (for the Pre-Columbian artifacts he smuggles) show up at his home in Belize at the...
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We Can Take More Winters Like This One - I can't wait for winter to end so I can get out of here and see what is happening in the rest of the world. But, with the rising cost of gas, I'm not really...
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Just One Thing to Say - At the James River Writers Conference this year, Robert Goolrick (and I had a totally fangirl reaction to him! What a writer!) said most writers have just ...3 months ago
3 comments:
And blessings to you, Joe!
God Bless.....
Helen,
Good to hear from you. And Cathy, I heard from you a lot since your blog is regular reading for me. I appreciate the books you recommend.
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