August 2025
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ONE OF US – Dan Chaon
It is 1915 and twins Bolt and Eleanor are on the run from an uncle that might just kill them both. They run into Mr. Jengling, the founder of the the Emporium of Wonders – a circus of oddities that travels across the often treacherous America. Despite the strangeness of many of those with the Continue reading
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THE DEVILS – Joe Abercrombie
In Joe Abercrombie’s The Devils, we have a strange twisting of our familiar reality. In this dark fantasy, Abercrombie gives us a Catholic Church which only has female priests and a female pope (who is barely more than a child). Her friends and protectors include vampires and werewolves. In this world, the Crusades are being waged Continue reading
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MINKY WOODCOCK: THE GIRL CALLED CTHULHU – graphic novel
I knew/(know) nothing about this character Minky Woodcock. and I’ve never read anything by Cynthia von Buhler, but I was in the mood for something in the noir vein and a Hard Case Crime book is usually good to meet that need! Following the death of Harry Houdini (with whom Minky had a close relationship), Continue reading
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APOSTLE’S COVE – William Kent Krueger
Cork O’Connor is having a crisis of self. He’s about to ‘celebrate’ his sixtieth birthday when he gets a disturbing call from his son, Stephen. Stephen works with non-profit organization that seeks to help secure the release of people who have been unjustly imprisoned. One of the latest is an Ojibwe man named Axel Boshey who Continue reading
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TOXIC TIDES – Riley Miller & Grace Hamilton
Emily and Sam are scientists, currently in the wilderness, with guide Bash leading them through remote areas that they want to study. They encounter eighteen year old Hazel and her younger brother, Caleb, who don’t seem at all prepared for walking in the remote woodlands. At about the same time that they meet the young Continue reading
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SILVER AND LEAD – Seanan McGuire
The 19th book in the October Daye series! October (Toby) Daye is pregnant and she’s been confined to the house and it’s driving her crazy. When a chance comes to leave, she takes it, even though it is a potentially very dangerous mission for the Queen, and even though Toby is getting close to her Continue reading
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AFTERGLOW – Tim Jordan
The nanotech drug Glow is everywhere. Rex remains in hiding as he’s still recovering from his addiction. Every day is a different challenge. But there are bigger problems to face – a new alliance threatens the balance of power in the world again, and a dangerous enemy from Rex’s past tracks him down. Is it Continue reading
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LOVE SUCKS – Cynthia St. Aubin
Having recently read and been enamored with Christopher Moore’s Anima Rising, I was in the mood for a little more supernatural and art combo and viola, up popped this book, Love Sucks by Cynthia St. Aubin. This was clearly going to be more humorous and more of a romance (thank you, cover artist) but that doesn’t matter to Continue reading
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THE MUSICALS OF COLE PORTER – Bernard F. Dick
Here’s what I knew about Cole Porter prior to reading this book: 1) the lyrics in all the songs in Anything Goes were often repeated by my fellow theatre students back in my college days, 2) Cole Porter was my theatre professor’s favorite composer & lyricist, 3) I thought he was only a Broadway artist whose work Continue reading
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JUST ADD WRITER – Tim Waggoner
It’s about time someone wrote this book! I have been reading tie-in novels since the mid-1970’s. I’m not sure if the first one was a Partridge Family novel (oh, yes, they had them and I read them!) or one of the two Gerry Anderson UFO novels (why only two!?) or, quite likely, one of those James Blish Star Trek adaptations. I Continue reading
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LETTERS TO KAFKA – Christine Estima
This was beautiful. Milena Jesenská was a Czech journalist, writer, editor and translator. It was in the latter role that she rose to some small fame as she was one of the first to translate the works of Franz Kafka from German to Czech. She’d discovered one of his stories which made an impact on her Continue reading
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THEM BONES – David Housewright
Rushmore McKenzie might just be my favorite literary P.I. I definitely look forward to a McKenzie book more than any other mystery detective … and I like Longmire and Cork O’Connor and Will Trent and …! McKenzie is approached by Angela Bjork, an old friend, with a request – help her find her missing dinosaur Continue reading
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