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.
Just a Couple of Programming Notes
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*Fairly Legal*, the spirited USA Network show starring Sarah Shahi as San
Francisco lawyer-turned-mediator Kate Reed, will begin its second season
thi...
Tucson Festival of Books, 2012
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Behind this door lies a world "Where Words and Imagination Come to Life."
Well, not really, but that's the theme for the Tucson Festival of Books.
And, the...
Evening Dusk Optical Illusion
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Illusions done by Akiyoshi Kitaoka, a Japanese professor of psychology have
always been worthy of our attention. So what has he been up to lately?
Let’s se...
DEBORAH CROMBIE, LISA GARDNER AND DOGS
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[image: crombie_nomarkuponher]
Mysteries rely not just on the lead characters and nasty villains to spin
the action. They also need the supporting cha...
Zero Intelligence
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Lately, we've seen a lot of thin-lipped, power-mouthed public "servants"
growling about "zero tolerance." But what, in practice, does "zero
tolerance" r...
Elmore Leonard's Westerns
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*B*efore I head east, a post about the West.
I don't know where Elmore Leonard fits in the history of the Western, other
than that he wrote some good one...
RECOVERY FROM MORMONISM – An Article by Steve Benson
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Recovery from Mormonism Mitt and Ann Romney–Portrayed by Sister Romney as
Struggling, Just-Getting-By, Stock-Selling Students at BYU: How Tough It
Was, Ye ...
Twitterific
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*by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig*
*[image: Twitter3]Below are the writing-related links I tweeted last week.
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*The free Writer’s Knowledge Base...
"Girlchild"
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Tupelo Hassman graduated from Columbia's MFA program. Her writing has been published in Paper Street Press, The Portland Review Literary Journal, Tantalum, W...
Getting Lost (& Found) On The Internet!
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I love the Internet. In fact, I’d have to say I’m addicted. Hello everyone.
My name is Dale Mayer and I’m addicted to the Internet. There, the first
step ...
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My review of Dana Stabenow's *Restless in the Grave* appeared last month in Shelf
Awareness for Readers. I am reposting it here with their permission. If yo...
Review: Guilt by Association by Marcia Clark
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Links: Amazon, Amazon UK, Book Depository UK Personally I’m always wary of
celebrity authors believing that the celebrity part of the equation has
been mor...
Sandbagging
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This week's blog brings back some memories from 2011 and a few shots taken in the last week or so.
The first group of photographs are from our trip to ...
HIGH ADVENTURE by Donald E. Westlake
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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...
Just One Thing to Say
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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 ...
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