Your Humble Blogger has been low on energy and focus lately (as some Gentle Readers may have guessed) so almost all reading has been rereading, and light rereading as well. I took To Say Nothing of the Dog into the…
While I was at the bookstore recently, I noticed that Airborn was out in paperback. I had thoroughly enjoyed it the first time through, enough that I thought it was worth getting as a bathtub book, and besides my Best…
Your Humble Blogger hasn’t been blogging lately, I know. I have read a few books, so I’m behind on my Book Reports, although since I’m focusing my efforts on Monsieur the Vicomte, neither the books nor the Reports are likely…
So, as you are aware, Gentle Reader, Your Humble Blogger is attempting to blog every single book read. This is, on occasion, disconcerting, when I discover that I haven’t blogged a book that I know I’ve read. As for instance,…
Well, and Your Humble Blogger will be playing the Vicomte de Valmont in a production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses put on my the local Community Theater here in Western Connecticut. It should be a lot of fun, and a lot…
Your Humble Blogger had passed the two hundredth page of Lost Stories, the newish collection of, um, “21 long-lost stories from the bestselling creator of Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon, and The Thin Man, and was preparing to write the…
Boy, do I like Cordelia’s Honor. But you knew that. chazak, chazak, v’nitchazek,-Vardibidian….
The Vesuvius Club: A Bit of Fluff is just that. It isn’t a surprise to discover that the author, Mark Gatiss, is a Doctor Who fiend. It has that sort of manic craziness, particularly in a scene when the bad…
My inclination, in writing about Inkspell is to start with SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS and then to SPOIL the damned ending, only there isn’t any ending to spoil, damnit. Not only does it leave off with a here’s the beginning of…
This is the third book that HarperCollins has sent me free to review for them. It’s the first novel, and it wasn’t bad. Here’s the review I’m sending them: I love historical novels, and I’m afraid I’ve learned much of…