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Category: Books
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Book to Read: River of Horns
Readers of my blog know I like Westerns. Some of them even know why… it’s in my blood, in my name… So it would come as no surprise to find that I highly recommend Peter Grant’s western series. His latest, River of Horns, is out now. And I love the title! Also, the cover…
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The Limp Writer
I’m sitting here weaving in my chair a bit. I’m tired again. No surprise, I realize, but I am sorry I’m so inconsistent with blog presence. I just don’t have anything clever to say. Or do. Or… I’m pretty much working and sleeping this week. However, I did put a book on sale! And…
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Review: All Things Huge and Hideous
G. Scott Huggins (and I don’t know what the G stands for, but I want to think it’s for Great. Great Scott! also, because he writes great stuff) has a new book out, All Things Huge and Hideous. If that sounds like it’s a riff on the Herriot titles I grew up loving and…
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What are you Reading?
Me? Well, I’ve finished a couple of good reads just recently, because no can brainy for writey, but reading is coming back online. That’s a good sign. I’ll write up full reviews soon… But if I look at my Kindle app, I’ve got several going. I’m sure I’m not alone in mood reading, and…
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Japanisme
The current obsession kids these days have with Japan’s wonderful storytelling is hardly new. I didn’t realize quite how far it went back, though, or the closeness of the forms. Anime my children watch – there’s even a streaming service for anime – parallels with the fairy tale books published over a century ago.…
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Marginalia
One small thing I sometimes miss about real paper books is the ability to scribble in the margin. I’ve done this rarely with fiction books, although I have copied out beautiful quotes, especially when I was younger and still had hopes of achieving lovely handwriting through practice. With history, though, and other books I wanted…
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A Dearth of Classics
In the discussion of books and audiobooks for my sister – and I will work on that list for the blog over the weekend, but these things are a huge labor of love, which I have not had time for – I mentioned to a friend that the Swallows and Amazons had been a favorite…
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ETWYRT: John Ringo
This is a repost of the recipe, to move it back onto my blog from the original platform since Otherwhere Gazette is now defunct, and to reformat the recipe to make it printable. Also, it’s delicious and bears repeating! It’s difficult to pick out just one John Ringo book to recommend with this recipe. I’ve…
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New Book by Peter Grant
I’m spooling up for a post that will be a book list of Sword and Sorcery books. Feel free to nominate your favorite title (with author, pretty please) in the comments. Book lists posts take a lot of time, since I curate the list from social media recommendations, so that’s definitely a weekend thing. Maybe…
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Possum Creek Massacre: Available Now!
It’s alive! Muahahaha! Ahem. Sorry, I let the inner Mad Scientist out a little far, there. I’m just so excited over this book. I put a lot of time and effort into it, and it’s finally out there in the cold, hard, cruel world. Who will hopefully find it as creepily cute as I do. …
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A Book Study: The Wonderful Garden
I have not been reading much recently. No time, no mental energy, and what little reading I could wedge into my schedule needed to be for research purposes. So when my friend Kathryn posted, as she does daily, a little quote from a book, it caught my eye and I decided that I was going…
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The Big Bookstore that Can’t
The little engine could, and did. This big bookstore seems to be running out of steam and sliding backwards down the slope and toward a crash. I spent several hours in the store I’ll call BN for brevity, yesterday. And the heck of it is, we hadn’t planned to go to the bookstore in the…