Category Archives: Non-fiction

Reading: Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life

Posted on June 7, 2020 by Rick Robinson

Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life by Marta McDowell, Timber Press 2019 hardcover In these stressful times, something peaceful is nice. I know this isn’t for everyone, but I enjoy gardening, and Dickinson’s poetry, so it was a natural for me. I had … Continue reading →

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Pulp Art by Robert Lesser

Posted on March 12, 2020 by Rick Robinson

Pulp Art by Robert Lesser, Random House / Gramercy Books 1997 hardcover. Non-fiction, mystery / art theme. In honor and respect to Robert Lesser, who passed recently, I decided to reread his book Pulp Art, which I bought and read years … Continue reading →

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Gratefully Received – part THREE of three

Posted on December 30, 2019 by Rick Robinson

Finishing up with the books I received for Christmas… The Dutch Shoe Mystery by Ellery Queen (1931). An eccentric millionairess is lying in a diabetic coma on a hospital bed in an anteroom of the surgical suite of the Dutch … Continue reading →

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Gratefully Received – part ONE

Posted on December 26, 2019 by Rick Robinson

Santa was generous this year, as always, and in addition to a scarf featuring Edward Gorey’s Doubtful Guest, and a really nice sweater, I did receive some books. Due to the bounty I’m going to make this a multi-part post. … Continue reading →

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Current Reading: Illustration Number Sixty-Six

Posted on December 8, 2019 by Rick Robinson

Illustration Issue No. Sixty-Six published by The Illustrated Press, Daniel Zimmer, editor & publisher I subscribe to this excellent magazine, which is published four times a year. Each issue is full of biographical information on the (usually) three artists featured, so it’s read, … Continue reading →

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Current Reading: The Hooded Gunman John Curran

Posted on November 17, 2019 by Rick Robinson

The Hooded Gunman, An Illustrated History of the Collins Crime Club edited and text by John Curran, Collins Crime Club / Harper Collins 2019 oversized hard cover. Non-fiction, 393 pages plus Indexs of Blurbs and Titles. After reading the very … Continue reading →

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Current Reading: Getting Started On…

Posted on July 28, 2019 by Rick Robinson

…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 →

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Friday Forgotten: The Coming Fury by Bruce Catton

Posted on July 6, 2017 by Rick Robinson

this is the 262nd in my series of forgotten or seldom read books The Coming Fury – Centennial History of the Civil War, Volume I, by Bruce Catton, Doubleday hardcover (1961) 565 pages – Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National … Continue reading →

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Just Arrived!

Posted on June 27, 2017 by Rick Robinson

Just arrived yesterday from Illustrated Press is The Life and Art of Bernie Fuchs by David Apatoff. Fuchs has long been a favorite artist, I first encountered his work in various magazines, most memorably in Sports Illustrated. If you love illustration art, you’ll want … Continue reading →

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Current Reading: Bernstein/Woodward, Deaver

Posted on June 11, 2017 by Rick Robinson

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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