June 2025
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THE MAN THAT GOT AWAY – Walter Rimler
Harold Arlen is not a household name – not in the average home, anyway. Yet Harold Arlen was the composer to some songs that are still well known nearly 90 years after they were first written. Not sure who he is yet? Have you ever heard or sung the song “Stormy Weather”? Maybe, maybe not? Continue reading
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MY FATHER ALWAYS FINDS CORPSES – Lee Hollis
Jarrod Jarvis is a former child television star in Hollywood. Now he lives in Palm Springs where he writes and directs for the local community theatre. Every day Jarrod quietly mourns the loss of his partner, a former police detective, Charlie. Jarrod tries to maintain a positive outlook, especially for his adult daughter, Liv. Liv Continue reading
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OZ REIMAGINED – John Joseph Adams & Douglas Cohen, editors
This was the oldest book in my ARC queue. It took me awhile to get to reading this not because of a lack of interest but because a death of a Kindle and a change in Kindle behavior meant I had lost the book to digital atoms. It’s because I DID want to read this Continue reading
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A LESSON IN DYING – Ann Cleeves
Ann Cleeves has written the books from which some of my favorite BritBox TV shows are based. Shetland (based on the Shetland Island series) has been fantastic and Vera (from the Vera Stanhope series) is a must-watch for mystery/police procedural fans. When I saw this book, the first book in a different series, being offered up as an ARC Continue reading
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SNOOPY: DOGHOUSE TAILS – Charles Schultz
I feel sad for children today who won’t grow up with newspapers in their house. Children who won’t know the joy of thumbing through the inky paper for the comics page every day, with a special section, IN COLOR, on Sunday. Children who won’t get to know Dennis, Calvin, Beetle, and of course the Peanuts Continue reading
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HAZE – Katharine Kerr
Katharine Kerr is a name I recognize from my days browsing through the science fiction/fantasy bookstore shelves many years ago. For no particular reason (except possibly money was tight and I wasn’t ready to spend it on someone I wasn’t sure about) I never read any of her work. When I saw this book – Continue reading
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MY FRIENDS – Fredrik Backman
The strength of a long-lasting friendship shines through this beautiful tale – possibly the best book yet by Fredrik Backman. I’m not sure if there’s any author out there writing today that is better at capturing what it means to be human, than Fredrik Backman. I think I’ve said the same thing about Anne Tyler, Continue reading
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WATERS OF DESTRUCTION – Leslie Karst
Valerie Corbin is a retired caterer and after a beautiful vacation in Hilo Hawai’i with her wife Kristen, the couple have decided to move to the 50th state permanently. Some of the fun in the move is getting to know their new neighborhood and they’ve become good friends with local restaurant manager, Sachiko, and her Continue reading
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THE MICHAEL MOORCOCK LIBRARY: ELRIC: THE MAKING OF A SORCERER – graphic novel
GRAPHIC NOVEL WEEK Sometime about the mid-1970’s I discovered Michael Moorcock’s Elric books and became a big fan of the series. When I saw that there was a graphic novel, written by Moorcock, that told the origin of the albino, I was definitely interested. Sometimes there are books you are interested in reading and you Continue reading
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C.O.W.L. 1964 – graphic novel
GRAPHIC NOVEL WEEK It is 1964 and C.O.W.L. (Chicago Organized Workers League) is the first superhero union in the country. The union is now looking to go national, with the union leaders tasting a bit of power. But the members who made up the union are no longer a cohesive force, having scattered or retired. Continue reading
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THE DOMAIN – graphic novel
GRAPHIC NOVEL WEEK I’ve been in a mood lately to read some graphic novels and was looking for something new and also a first in a series when I stumbled on this, The Domain. Three friends head out to where an actual UFO may have landed. One of the friends has been actively tracking such events Continue reading
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FLASH GORDON: THE GIRL FROM INFINITY VOL. 1 – graphic novel
GRAPHIC NOVEL WEEK A thousand years from now, on a space ship acting as an ark preserving Earth’s fauna the young boy Dale Arden, who is the caretaker for the Ark, sees what he believes is a comet that comes crashing to the ground. He discovers it’s an escape pod of some sort and from Continue reading
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