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Booking Through Thursday: Sticky books

This can be a quick one. Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.

Quick AND easy, especially since I’m copying my Desert Island Books and a couple books that just fell short […]

Book Review: The Burning Skies by David J. Williams

For whatever reason, series abound in science fiction and fantasy. You can’t go through those sections of a bookstore or library without seeing a large number of authors who have embarked on a series. Yet one of the problems that poses for a writer is how much space should be spent trying to bring a […]

Midweek Music Moment: On The Border, Eagles

For me, On The Border was the breakthrough album for the Eagles — and, it seems, much of the rest of America.

The album, the band’s third, went gold on June 5, 1974, just 10 1/2 weeks after its release. In contrast, the band’s first two albums both took about 18 months to go gold. […]

June Bibliolust

Although last month I was sort of whining about the number of books I had to review in the coming weeks, I got all six read and the reviews posted. There’s two additional ones that were offered after the first of the month that I got read but just haven’t gotten around to writing the […]

Who’s Googling what where — Chapter 2

About six months ago I spent some time playing with a site that shows how popular a Google search query is in each U.S. state. I recently decided to see what’s been going on more recently so checked into the main source for this info to get an idea of what’s been going on so […]