I generally post my recommended reading list a month or three after I’ve done the reading. Which means that all of the holiday stories that I read get recommended in January or February. Last year, I decided to do a compilation of past holiday recommends so that you can get them for the appropriate season, […]
Continue ReadingI read a lot in August, but at the beginning of the month I felt like I was paying for my successful July. A book I really looked forward to by a writer new to me turned out to be a slog. Characters I didn’t like saying disagreeable things about other characters I didn’t like. […]
Continue ReadingI’m doing my best to catch up on the Recommended Reading lists, so that I can be on schedule in 2012. Here’s the good stuff I read in November. All that you read down there, I wrote in November itself (or early December). *** I wish I could say that things settled down more in […]
Continue ReadingI know, I know. I read the Christmas stories before Christmas, to prep myself for the season, but I’m telling you about them here. Ah, well. Buy the issues/books now and save the stories for next year…. As you can tell from the list, I went on a short story binge in December. For some […]
Continue ReadingAs you can tell, I wrote this at the beginning of September. And I’m posting late. I’d planned to post before I left. But here goes…. Boy, I read a lot in August. Boy, did I not like most of it. Including a mystery novel by an acclaimed writer whose work I had read before. […]
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