I learned something about myself this month. I was deeply repelled by a book by an author whose short essays I love. This book, about basketball, begins by discussing “our enemies,” talking about other teams, people “we” hate, the difficulties of hatred. The reviews say this is an ultimately uplifting book, but I didn’t make […]
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Well, this posted early. Because I’m an airhead. So I’m just going to add to it as the rest of the month goes on. Whoops! I took 8 days of my leisure reading time to watch Season Five of Stranger Things, and now I regret it. The show’s always been a tough watch for me–children in […]
Continue ReadingBecause I had such a crazy weird hectic 2024, I got behind in posting—and even writing up—my recommended reading lists. I finally jumped ahead and posted October’s earlier this month. I’m nearly done with November’s. But I still needed to catch up on all the good things I read over the summer. I don’t remember […]
Continue ReadingMy Spade/Paladin mystery stories take place at science fiction conventions. As all sf die-hards know, sf conventions leave Halloween to the “mundanes,” folks who aren’t die-hard sf fans. So why set a mystery story on Halloween at an sf convention? Why not? So you can find the new story in the December issue of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery […]
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