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TIDAL CREATURES – Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire’s Tidal Creatures is the third book in her Alchemical Journeys series and it’s a powerhouse. It’s been a while since I read the previous two books, but it’s likely that you may want to read them before taking this particular journey. The Lunar gods take human hosts and navigate the skies at night… Continue reading
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TRUTH IS THE ARROW, MERCY IS THE BOW – Steve Almond

I’m a fan of the works of Steve Almond, ever since I picked up and read, somewhat randomly, his collection of short stories, My Life in Heavy Metal. I will gladly buy and read anything he writes. Truth is the Arrow, Mercy is the Bow, Almond’s latest book, is part memoir, part ‘how to’ for writers, and… Continue reading
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THE MERCY OF GODS – James S.A. Corey

Humans have been on the planet Anjiin longer than history has recorded, working alongside the Anjiin. The Carryx have a reputation as the galaxy’s aggressive species, capturing and enslaving other civilization’s wherever they go. When the Carryx come to Anjiin, they wipe out whole communities and round up survivors. Among those captured is Dafyd Alkhor… Continue reading
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THE BRIGHT SWORD – Lev Grossman

Wow. Really, just … wow. Author Lev Grossman (of The Magicians fame) takes on a classic legend with his new look at King Arthur, the knights of the roundtable, and all the usual, familiar characters whom we’ve read about in other versions of the legends. Grossman brings us into the story with a new knight, Collum of… Continue reading
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LIVING THE BEATLES LEGEND – Kenneth Womack

I have read a lot of Beatles-related books over the past dozen years that I’ve been writing this review blog but this is perhaps the most moving and the most insightful of all that I’ve read. Mal Evans was possibly closer to the Beatles than other individual, from their early days at The Cavern Club,… Continue reading
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LAST DANGEROUS VISIONS – Harlan Ellison, editor

Is it possible to wait 50 years for one book? Yes. Fans of Harlan Ellison and/or his Dangerous Visions collections have been waiting for this particular book for just that long. Is it possible for a book that one has been waiting for for half a century to even come close to meeting fifty years’… Continue reading
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PILOBOLUS: A STORY OF DANCE AND LIFE – Robert Pranzatelli

I first became acquainted with the work of Pilobolus about 1980 when a theatre professor gave me a VHS tape of their performance on a local PBS station. To say that it was life-changing might be overstating it, but within a years time I had created my own ‘mime and dance’ company which performed locally… Continue reading
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THE GLASS BOX – J. Michael Straczynski

Riley Diaz is a fighter. When she is picked up and prosecuted for part in an ‘illegal’ protest, she is given the option of a prison sentence or time spent in an American Renewal Center for re-education. The centers are a relatively new concept, based on the Emergency Detention Act of 1950 which has never been… Continue reading
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THE OTHER FAB FOUR – Mary McGlory and Sylvia Saunders

I’d heard about this book (probably on NPR) and I rushed to get a copy. The first female rock band? Got their start at The Cavern Club about the same time as the Beatles? Like the Beatles, also from Liverpool? Like the Beatles, played the Star-Club in Hamburg? Hung out with the likes of The… Continue reading
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AFTERMARKET AFTERLIFE – Seanan McGuire

Once a crossroads ghost, Mary Dunlavy is now the Price family babysitter. She’s been their babysitter for four generations and she’ll likely do it the rest of her life … er, the rest of time. But to be a babysitter, there needs to be a family to sit for and with people dying the way… Continue reading
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RICH JUSTICE – Robert Bailey

Flamboyant attorney, Jason Rich, whose billboards dot the surrounding Georgia landscape proclaiming to “Get Rich” when in need of a lawyer – generally for simpler things like divorces or accidents but recent events (the first two books in the series) had Jason Rich going big time and defending his sister and then a friend, on… Continue reading

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