January 2012 archive

Post-Disaster Sexism.

Yup, interesting title, isn’t it? But I’ve come to the conclusion that it exists. Possibly not in real life – although I’m taking no bets on it – but certainly in the publishing of disaster novels. I’ve always enjoyed a good disaster novel of the SF type. Death of Grass, Day of the Triffids, A …

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City of Whispers by Marcia Muller.

Hardcover – Grand Central publishing – October 2011. Reviewed by Lyn McConchie. The next few reviews that I’ll be putting up have something extra. Recently I was talking to a friend who gaped at my personal library (about 7,500 books) and asked if I’d bought them all? How could I afford them? The answer to …

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