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Monthly Archives: July 2019
Current Reading: Getting Started On…
…various things. Sometimes, I get started on a book, then start another, then another, and don’t finish any of them within a week or two, sometimes longer. That’s the case this week, I’ve got three books going. Here they are: … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Reading, current reading, Mystery, Non-fiction, Science Fiction
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Heinlein: Farmer In the Sky
Farmer In the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein. Scribner’s & Sons, 1950, hardcover and paperback. Juvenile novel # 4 This, the fourth of Heinlein’s YA (juvenile) novels, is about a teenaged boy and his family who emigrates to Jupiter’s moon Ganymede, which … Continue reading
Current Reading: The Black Jersey by Jorge Zepeda Patterson
The Black Jersey by Jorge Zepeda Patterson, Random House 2019 hardcover / ebook, mystery, 314 pages. Every July, for years now, we watch the Tour de France on TV. In addition to seeing the beautiful French countryside, mountains and villages, there … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Reading, current reading, Mystery
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Forgotten? Heinlein: Red Planet
Red Planet by Robert A. Heinlein. Scribner’s 1949, hardcover and paperback. Juvenile novel # 3 Colonists on Mars: ever a popular science fiction storyline. This time it’s a good guys vs. bad guys with the Martians caught in the middle. It … Continue reading
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Current Reading: Age of Legend by Michael J. Sullivan
Age of Legend by Michael J. Sullivan, Riyira Enterprises, Grim Oak Press 2019 hardcover, Legends of the First Empire (Book 4) 480 pages, fantasy. This is the just recently published fourth book in the series. Though I had a couple … Continue reading
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Forgotten? The Heinlein Juveniles: Space Cadet
Space Cadet by Robert A. Heinlein, juvenile sf #1. Scribner’s 1948, hardcover and paperback. This is the second of the Heinlein juveniles, a long and successful series of a dozen science fiction novels published by Scribner’s. These were originally envisioned as a … Continue reading
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Current Reading: The Art of Rafael DeSoto edited by David Saunders
The Art of Rafael DeSoto edited by David Saunders, The Illustrated Press, July 2019 oversized (9×12) hardcover. Just published! This beautiful 224 page look at the work of pulp artist extraordinaire Rafael DeSoto is a must have for anyone with … Continue reading
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Forgotten? Heinlein: Rocket Ship Galileo
Rocket Ship Galileo by Robert A. Heinlein, juvenile sf #1. Scribner’s 1947, hardcover and paperback. Another in my series of reading the Heinlein juvenile SF novels. Last time it was Citizen of the Galaxy, this time it’s the first of his juveniles, … Continue reading
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