Sunday, December 31, 2023

NO DUCKS GIVEN, Day One: 31 December, 2023

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I think 2024 might be my year of reading big fat books that I've been meaning to get around to, and I'm starting with Lucy Ellman...
Thursday, August 31, 2023

Tony Burgess' IDAHO WINTER (Narr by Tristan Morris)

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"The ditches are shallow and the falls are all too short." Sooner or later, I was bound to run into a book in which a character wi...
Saturday, July 15, 2023

Mark Lawrence's THE BOOK THAT WOULDN'T BURN

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It's always the books you don't have that call to you, you know that. Not the ones already on your shelf. They can wait. A new trilo...
Saturday, July 8, 2023

Jeffrey Ford's THE PHYSIOGNOMY (Narr by Christian Rummell)

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 Late last year the great Iggy Pop collaborated with Catherine Graindorge, an artist of whom I had not yet heard but of whom I am now a fan,...
Monday, June 19, 2023

Rachel Yoder's NIGHTBITCH

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Her sense that society, adulthood, marriage, motherhood, all these things, were somehow masterfully designed to put a woman in her place and...
Monday, June 5, 2023

Ondjaki's TRANSPARENT CITY (Tr Stephen Henighan)

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Admit it: you've been waiting your entire long, lonely, colorless life to read a novel that contains a line of dialogue as brilliantly b...
Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Edward Ashton's ANTIMATTER BLUES (Narr John Pirhalla & Katharine Chin)

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Somehow I didn't know that a sequel to Mickey7  was in the works, let alone already published. Thank goodness for Mastodon, where I land...