Blood on the Mink by Robert Silverberg
Read as part of CBR16 Bingo: vintage. This book was originally published as a serialized story in a magazine in 1959. When I learned I had to read a book that was over 40 years old for a reading challenge, I knew it would be a Hard Case Crime one. Hard Case Crime is great at bringing to life authors that are little known or have fallen out of vogue. There was so much in the way of pulp publication in the 50s and 60s […]
Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg
I had a hard time deciding between one and two star rating for Dying Inside, as it was well written and the literary voice was engaging. But I found this to be vile. A sexist, racist, masturbatory exploration of a really cool concept. Dude took the laziest option and tried to be profound with it. Ick. Thanks a lot, TBR Jar! Anyway, as you can see, I ended up at 1.5 stars rounded up, because I am willing to extend some leeway for all the positive […]
The Golden Cage by Camilla Läckberg
Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier
The Lost Village by Camilla Sten
The Hot Beat by Robert Silverberg
Your Book, Your Brand: The Step-By-Step Guide to Launching Your Book and Boosting Your Sales by Dana Kaye
Nineteen Seventy Seven by David Peace
The Family Game by Catherine Steadman
The Other Side of Night by Adam Hamdy
Nineteen Eighty by David Peace
Ex Machina, Book Three by Brian K. Vaughan
The Cloisters by Katy Hays
Destroy All Monsters (Reckless, Vol.2) by Ed Brubaker
The Ghost in You (Reckless, Vol.3) by Ed Brubaker
Chasing the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar
A happy and blessed Thanksgiving to all who observe! Here is my list of readings that I got to in November that didn’t merit a longer review… The Golden Cage*** Part 1: Ma’am, wyd? Part 2: Good for her! Part 3: Good for…her? Also, kinda sad. Epilogue: Good for her! This is a good, trashy beach read. I just wish there had been less on Faye’s shady past- which wasn’t filled in well-and more on the machinations to destroy her husband’s business. Also, I’m not […]
Nightwings by Robert Silverberg
I read this as part of my planned effort over the next year to thin out my library by reading some of the books I’ve been schlepping from apartment to apartment with the idea that I’ll read them someday. Someday is now! This plan worked here because this book is going straight in the recycling after this review, freeing up shelf space to buy more books. Nightwings is a combination of three novellas, one of which won the Hugo in 1969. I didn’t notice that […]
Letters from Atlantis by Robert Silverberg
Sailing to Byzantium by Robert Silverberg
Nightwings by Robert Silverberg
Christmas Days by Jeanette Winterson
The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovannino Guareschi
Technopoly by Neil Postman
The Disappearance of Childhood by Neil Postman
The Most Beautiful House in the World by Witold Rybczynski
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
The Game of X by Robert Sheckley
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
White Fang by Jack London
The Man on the Balcony by Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall
Letters from Atlantis – 4/5 Stars In this novella, we meet a time travelling archeologist/anthropologist writing letters to his wife. Seems normal enough (well, minus the time travelling) but what we find out is that this narrator is actually 20,000 years in the past in Atlantis, the mythical or not mythical island country that existed pre-historically, and if the stories that go at least as far back as Plato go, was seemingly advanced. So the time traveler is observing, this society has electricity, as well […]
Born with the Dead by Robert Silverberg (1979) – I was surprised, after reading the author’s introduction about how difficult it was to write these stories about death, that Mr. Silverberg is still alive today. Seriously, the pains and trepidation he’d experienced writing them made me think that he himself was close to death in the late seventies. These three novellas, written in the early seventies, focus on the topic of death for various pulp science fiction magazines of the time. While they are not […]
