Category Archives: current reading

Current Reading: M. C. Beaton, Val McDermid

Posted on July 31, 2017 by

It’s been hot and will be getting hotter: in the 90s now and 106 expected in a couple of days. I really hate this kind of heat, and it drains all the energy out of me. I don’t even feel … Continue reading →

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Current Reading: Dunstall, Macdonald, Cornwell

Posted on July 23, 2017 by

After finishing the Patricia Moyes mystery, I was in the mood for some science fiction, so I decided to read Linesman by S. K. Dunstall, a mass market paperback I bought last year. I liked it quite a lot, both for … Continue reading →

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Current Reading: Foster, Moyes, Sandford

Posted on July 16, 2017 by

I finished Icerigger by Alan Dean Foster, which I first became aware of through a blog review, though I don’t recall which blog. I enjoyed it. It’s nothing literate or thought-provoking, just a fun SF novel about a group of people who … Continue reading →

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Current Reading: Edwards, Heywood, Foster, Sandford

Posted on July 9, 2017 by

Two books read this time, in addition to the Civil War book I reviewed for my FFB. Miraculous Mysteries, edited by Martin Edwards, is a collection of “locked-room murders and impossible crimes”. An anthology of 16 stories, published recently by British … Continue reading →

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Current Reading: Krueger, O’Brien, Nesbø

Posted on July 2, 2017 by

While having computer problems and ultimately buying a new one, then doing all the setup and organizing required to have a working system and LAN, I did less reading, but finished a couple of things. I decided to get current … Continue reading →

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Current Reading: not much, how about you?

Posted on June 18, 2017 by

I know I read a few short stories in a locked room anthology edited by Martin Edwards, but right now the name of it escapes me. The neighbors are having their 4th loud pool party in a row (Thursday, Friday, … Continue reading →

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Current Reading: Bernstein/Woodward, Deaver

Posted on June 11, 2017 by

The weather has been nice, the garden looks great, things are fine. I haven’t done a lot of reading, but I finished Orbital Decay by Allen Steele, and liked it better at the end than at the middle point, which does … Continue reading →

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Current Reading: Steele, Deaver

Posted on June 4, 2017 by

Not much to say this week. I’m still bogged down, trying a little of this and that, making little to no progress on any of it. I did finish Aliens: Bug Hunt, an ebook story collection of Alien stories I got from … Continue reading →

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Current Reading: Cats & Bugs & Lost Boys

Posted on May 28, 2017 by

A little of this, a little of that, that’s my story these days. I’m still reading the Jo Gar short stories, but decided to take a break from them and tried some pulp science fiction, and got tired of that, and … Continue reading →

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Current Reading: Brennan, North, Whitfield, Tierney

Posted on May 21, 2017 by

Sunshine and warm weather. Working in the garden: staking, removing two shrubs that didn’t survive the winter, weeding, trimming. Trips to the our regular nursery, trips to other nurseries, planning, planting, feeding, mulching… who has time for reading? So I have the … Continue reading →

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