For years I’ve bought a book series, I read them first back in the 1960s, and still have an ex-library book of one of the earliest in the series from then. They were quirky, funny, witty, and had cats and mysteries, What more could you ask for? And for a number of years I also …
September 2011 archive
THE TRUTH OF VALOR by Tanya Huff
a paperback from DAW SF published 2010 – reviewed by Lyn McConchie. Tanya Huff produces great books! Here and there, there have been ones I didn’t much like, nothing against her writing, just that the characters didn’t grab me quite as strongly as usual. But this book isn’t one of them. Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr …
Being a Local
Writers who live in big cities and are unknown to their neighbours are unfortunate. Or it may be that they like it that way. I don’t. A couple of months ago I was pounced on by our promotions committe and asked to write a poem for the new troll family carved out of wood and …
HAVE YOU OVERLOOKED – WILMAR H. SHIRAS?
Wilmar H(ouse) Shiras was born in Boston in 1908, and died in 1990. She married her husband when she was 18 and they raised five children. It was for them that she began telling the stories that would ultimately become her single great work. There are some authors who appear to have only one good …
movie credits
I was watching a long, undoubtedly very expensive film last night and once it was finishing I watched the credits to see who a couple of the characters that I’d liked had been. The cast list was in such small lettering that I couldn’t read it, and I wondered what is it with movie companies? …
HAVE YOU OVERLOOKED – STERLING E. LANIER.
Sterling Edmund Lanier was born on the 18th of December 1927 and died on June 28th 2007. However, like many of the other authors in this series, his writing output was small, and he has often been overlooked by readers who started reading after Lanier’s heyday of the 1970s and 1980s. Lanier was a man …
Sharing
A quick trip down to our village yesterday to pick up a few things and drop off lemons. I have a Meyer lemon tree, there’s only a short period around early spring where that fruits really prolifically, but for most of the year it fruits steadily. Far more than I could ever use unless I …
TAILS OF WONDER AND IMAGINATION edited by Ellen Datlow.
TAILS OF WONDER AND IMAGINATION edited by Ellen Datlow. Trade paperback, Night Shade Books, 2010. A reprint anthology of 40 stories about felines. 464 pages. Reviewed by Lyn McConchie. To put this review in perspective. I grade theme anthologies in two ways. There are the stories, how many of them that, for that single story …
Newspaper Articles
Some time ago a friend who had a website asked if I had any Handy Hints I could write for her to post. I did several and found it was quite fun writing them. To cut a long story short, I continued to write articles on ways to save money and offered them as well …
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The rain
19 September 2011
As the poet said, the rain it raineth every day, upon the just and unjust fella. But more so on the just because – the unjust hath the just’s umbrella. (and no, I don’t know who wrote that, it has many attributions including Shakespeare.) But what made me think of it is that it rained …
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