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Monthly Archives: September 2015
Current Reading: September 21-27
~ Sherlock Holmes month at Tip the Wink is almost over ~ I finished the nearly 500 page Holmes short story collection I’ve been reading, and I enjoyed it (see my Friday review). Now I’m reading Killer’s Wedge by Ed McBain for … Continue reading
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Map
~ Sherlock Holmes Month at Tip the Wink ~ Here’s a little item you don’t see every day: The Sherlock Holmes Mystery Map. Published by Aaron Blake Publishers, it’s part of their Literary Maps series. I don’t know when or … Continue reading
Posted in Mystery
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Current Reading: September 15-21
~ Sherlock Holmes month at Tip the Wink ~ I’m still reading my way through the 493 page (plus two appendices) The Mammoth Books of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures. I’m at the two-thirds point, and so far only one story has been less … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Reading, Mystery, Non-fiction
Tagged Oregon Trail, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes Month
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1,045 Posts
Between the posts on Broken Bullhorn, my previous blog, and this one, this makes the 1,045th post. Since Broken Bullhorn and Tip the Wink are essentially the same blog with just a different name, that total represents all the posts since I started blogging … Continue reading
Posted in The Blog Itself
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Forgotten Book: Sherlock Holmes by Gas-Lamp
~ Sherlock Holmes Weeks at Tip the Wink ~ this is the 190th in my series of forgotten or seldom read books Sherlock Holmes by Gas-Lamp edited by Philip A. Shreffler, Fordham University Press, 1989 hardcover – essay collection The subtitle of … Continue reading
Arrivals: A Holmes collection, an epic fantasy and a SF/mystery crossover
~ Sherlock Holmes Month at Tip the Wink ~ A few things came in, books I’m excited about. One of them is a Holmes collection, you’ll note. In the Company of Sherlock Holmes edited by Laurie King and Leslie Klinger [Pegasus Crime, 2015 … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Reading, Mystery, New Arrivals
Tagged Redshift Rendevous, Sherlock Holmes, Twelve Kings in Sharakhai
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Current Reading for Sherlock Holmes Month
~ Sherlock Holmes month at Tip the Wink ~ After re-reading some of the original stories, I thought I’d try something quite different: Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space, edited by Issac Asimov with Martin Greenberg and Charles Waugh. There … Continue reading
Friday Forgotten Book: The Moor
~ Sherlock Holmes Month at Tip the Wink ~ this is the 189th in my series of forgotten or seldom read books This seemed like a fitting Friday Forgotten Book for today, since I re-read The Hound of the Baskervilles just over … Continue reading
Posted in Friday Forgotten Books, Mystery
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