Category Archives: Non-fiction

Current Reading: Cats & Bugs & Lost Boys

Posted on May 28, 2017 by Rick Robinson

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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Forgotten Book: Deadly Nightshade by Cynthia Riggs

Posted on April 27, 2017 by Rick Robinson

this is the 255th in my series of forgotten or seldom read books Deadly Nightshade by Cynthia Riggs, Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2001, hardcover – mystery, cozy I don’t read a ton of cozies, but once in a while I’m tempted … Continue reading →

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Forgotten Book: Wilderness Days by Sigurd Olson

Posted on April 13, 2017 by Rick Robinson

this is the 253rd in my series of forgotten or seldom read books Wilderness Days by Sigurd Olson, Alfred A. Knopf (a Borzoi Book) ©1972, this 7th printing 1984, hardcover non-fiction – essays on nature I find reading about nature soothing. Part of it … Continue reading →

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Forgotten Book: The Department of Dead Ends by Roy Vickers

Posted on February 23, 2017 by Rick Robinson

this is the 254th in my series of forgotten or seldom read books The Department of Dead Ends by Roy Vickers, © 1949, my copy: a 1955 Penguin paperback Vickers has here selected his “ten best” DoDE stories. These are all “inverted” mystery … Continue reading →

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New arrivals: Birthday Swag

Posted on October 26, 2016 by Rick Robinson

It happens every year, I get older, and a few books celebrate the occasion. Sometimes I’m amazed I’ve lived as long as I have. I hope I have a few more good years in me. Here’s the birthday Swag (the … Continue reading →

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Forgotten Book: The Long-Winded Lady, Notes from the New Yorker by Maeve Brennan

Posted on August 11, 2016 by Rick Robinson

this is the 230th in my series of forgotten or seldom read books The Long-Winded Lady, Notes from the New Yorker by Maeve Brennan, 1969, 1998 non-fiction, collection of essays. I grew up in the country, and the closest I ever … Continue reading →

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Friday Special: Brave New Words edited by Jeff Prucher

Posted on June 24, 2016 by Rick Robinson

Brave New Words – The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction edited by Jeff Prucher, Oxford University Press, 2007, soft cover edition 2009, non-fiction I’m not sure how this one slipped past me, but I just came across it and immediately had … Continue reading →

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Current Reading January 18 – 24

Posted on January 24, 2016 by Rick Robinson

I finished The Builders, review this coming week. Also read was Woman With A Blue Pencil by Gordon McAlpine. It’s a difficult book to summarize or explain. It’s a multi-layerd story of a Japanese-American author writing a book which he started and submitted … Continue reading →

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Current Reading: September 28 – October 4

Posted on October 4, 2015 by Rick Robinson

I’m still reading Holmes stuff, and there is the new MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories that came a few days ago to start. Whew! But there’s more, a whole lot of book goodness going on (apologies to Jerry … Continue reading →

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Current Reading: September 21-27

Posted on September 28, 2015 by Rick Robinson

~ 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 →

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