Category: Reading
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The Spectre of Book Banning
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I remember watching reruns of The Dick Van Dyke Show on television when I was younger and thinking how silly it was to show Rob and Laura Petrie sleeping in twin beds. Clearly they’d had sex in order to have their son Ritchie, but the show was produced while the…
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Thick fun in the summertime
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I read an article recently that piqued my interest. It seems there’s a very recent trend to dive into “big, thick books” this summer, and the writer dissected why that might be. And since I write big, thick books, I thought about my own attraction to that type of novel.…
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Tea and a Mystery: The Great Brownstone Detective
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Saul and I handled the breakfast problem, and for lunch we had cold cuts, including the sturgeon, which had been passed as edible, two bottles of champagne, and five kinds of cheese. The Doorbell Rang (A Nero Wolfe Mystery Book 41) If you’re going to play hermit for a day…
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Houses of mystery
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If you were a 19th century archaeologist with an unholy Egyptian artifact in your possession, and you wanted to both keep it out of the hands of bad guys and protect your family, where would you put it? Why, a secret room in your mansion, of course. At least, that…
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Happy Halloween!
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Hope you have a fantastically eerie Halloween this year! If you’re not going out, reading books 1 & 2 of my trilogy would be a great way to spend a quieter evening.
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Anti-Boredom Month: I have the solution!
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Is July a boring month? I guess it depends on your perspective. I don’t love the summer, as a season – it’s generally oppressively hot and humid where I live. But the month of July does include a couple bits of excitement, for me anyway: 1) stores start selling Halloween…
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Book ‘marks’?
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I came across an amusing article about bookmarks, or shall we say: different ways of marking the spot you’ve been reading in a book. Isn’t that the same thing, you may ask. The article is called Bookmarks: the definitive ranking, and although I had a lot of fun reading it,…
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Book progress and a new version of storytelling
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“Don’t tell me what happens – la la la la la.” “I’m not going to tell you. I’m just organizing the order of events. That’s all I’m saying.” That was my hubby’s response when I talked about the progress of the third book in my trilogy on the weekend. Writing…
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New book releases for anyone’s taste
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Hi folks, A little under the weather at the moment, so I thought I’d share this entertaining list of upcoming books and when they’ll become available, Book releases 2024: From RuPaul to Salman Rushdie, on the BBC Culture website. Hope you enjoy the browse. And while it’s not on this…