Thursday, January 31, 2019
Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Nevermore: Dovekeepers, Bookshop of Yesterdays, Pa...
Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Nevermore: Dovekeepers, Bookshop of Yesterdays, Pa...: Reported by Ambrea Nevermore started their meeting off by sharing The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman, which tells the story of ...
Publishing ... and Other Forms of Insanity: 19 Calls for Submissions in February 2019 - Paying...
Publishing ... and Other Forms of Insanity: 19 Calls for Submissions in February 2019 - Paying...: Wikimedia There are 19 calls for submissions in February 2019. All of these are paying markets, and none charge submission fees. As al...
Only days left to win books and more from KRL
Only days
left to win copies of another great bunch of food and wine mysteries-"Batter Off Dead": A
Southern Cake Baker Mystery by Maymee Bell, "One Taste Too Many":
Sarah Blair Mystery by Debra H. Goldstein, "Steamed Open": A Maine
Clambake Mystery by Barbara Ross, "Wine and Punishment": A Literary
Pub Mystery by Sarah Fox, "Live and Let Pie": A Bakeshop Mystery by
Ellie Alexander aka Kate Dyer-Seeley, "Kappy King and the Pie Kaper":
An Amish Mystery by Amy Lillard
And to
win a copy of "Crewel and Unusual" by Molly MacRae and while there check
out a fun craft guest post from Molly
Also to
win a copy of "Marriage Vow Murder" by Leslie Langtry along with an interesting
interview with Leslie
And to
win books by Alexis Morgan and Diane Kelly when you check out the latest
mystery Coming Attractions,
And on
KRL News and Reviews to win a copy of "A Display of Death" by Gin Jones
And to
win a copy of "A Cold Brew Killing" by Lena Gregory
And to
win a copy of "Murder at the Harbor Village" by GP Gardner
Happy
reading,
Lorie
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Bookblog of the Bristol Library: The Cat Lover’s Craft Book: Cute and Easy Accessor...
Bookblog of the Bristol Library: The Cat Lover’s Craft Book: Cute and Easy Accessor...: Reviewed by Kristin Are you crafty? Are you catty? Are you cattily crafty? Do you just love cats so much that you want t...
Mystery Fanfare: MURDER AT THE SUPER BOWL & Other Football Crime Fi...
Mystery Fanfare: MURDER AT THE SUPER BOWL & Other Football Crime Fi...: There's lots of real crime surrounding the Super Bowl : drugs, money, egos, etc. Fodder for the crime writer . So in ...
Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Book Bingo!
Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Book Bingo!: By popular request, we are posting some of our Book Bingo Sheets! The rules are: Read a book or complete a task and mark off the correspon...
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Monday, January 28, 2019
How I Spent My Afternoon
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| Photograph taken by Scott when I wasn't looking |
While the news had stories warning about the brutal cold far to our north, we had severe clear here and nearly 70 degrees. That meant there was only one thing to do.....READ OUTSIDE. Because Scott worked some magic on my iPad I can now finally check mail on that and then go back to the latest book.
By 4 we were driven inside as the southern end of the front had swept through and we had wind gusts into the 30s as the temps dropped. At this hour it is down to 42 here and blowing way harder than it was this afternoon. A freeze is predicted area wide tonight with a slight warming trend after tomorrow.
Publishing ... and Other Forms of Insanity: 51 Writing Contests in February 2019 - No entry fe...
Publishing ... and Other Forms of Insanity: 51 Writing Contests in February 2019 - No entry fe...: Wikimedia For a month that is nasty, brutish and short, February packs a punch when it comes to writing contests. This month there are ...
Unlawful Acts: The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
Unlawful Acts: The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
Do Some Damage: Be The Community You Want and Need by Sandra Ruttan
Do Some Damage: Be The Community You Want and Need: (All tweets displayed have corresponding links and only those with ability to share/retweet have been used, since those are public.) It w...
TEXAS BOOK LOVER: Monday Roundup: Texas Literary Calendar January 28...
TEXAS BOOK LOVER: Monday Roundup: Texas Literary Calendar January 28...: Bookish goings-on in Texas for the week of January 28-February 3, 2019: Special Events: Visiting Literary Scholar in Residence with Mei...
Aubrey Hamilton Reviews: Lullaby Road by James Anderson
Lullaby
Road by James Anderson (Crown, 2018) is another
prose poem and unconventional crime fiction story from the author of The
Never-Open Desert Diner. It features Ben Jones, a few months after the
events of Diner. Winter started
early and a snowstorm seems to be brewing on the horizon. Ben is in a hurry to
fill his truck when he finds a large German shepherd or husky guarding a small
child in the subfreezing wind at the truck stop. The owner has conveniently
disappeared, no one else is around, and Ben can’t leave the child in the cold.
Both the dog and the toddler, who doesn’t talk, join him in the warm truck so
he can get on the road with the day’s delivery of water, propane, and other
necessities to the isolated residents of Utah’s high desert. Among them are
John, who walks the lonely state highway six months of the year carrying a huge
wooden cross, no one knows why. Occasionally Ben stops to talk to John and they
share an imaginary cigarette, as carefully rolled and lit and passed back and
forth as if it were real tobacco. Another of the damaged but harmless desert
rats is Roy, the proud creator of a solar-powered dog house made of used tires.
Others who have come to the desert to hide from the world are not as innocuous
but they all need the lifeline to the outside that Ben provides.
Searching for the child’s home is only one of
the plots in this story. John is struck by a hit-and-run driver and sustains
life-threatening injuries. There are of course no doctors practicing in that
part of the state and the nearest hospital’s sole emergency helicopter has
multiple calls for its services. Getting John to the hospital falls to Ben, as
does stopping a shooting and robbery at the local convenience store. At home,
his single-parent neighbor gives up on trying to work two jobs and go to
college while taking care of her daughter and calls her domineering mother, who
brings an aggressive boyfriend when she shows up.
Beautifully, exquisitely written, I focused on
the telling of the story with its evocative imagery rather than the story
itself for a considerable part of the tale, then began to fix on the people the
narrative brings to life. These mini-plots are vignettes wrapped into a single
book with the desert setting and the lost child as the threads that run through
it from beginning to end. For readers who appreciate good writing and
thoughtful portrayals of humanity.
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Hardcover: 320 pages
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Publisher: Crown
(January 16, 2018)
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Language: English
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ISBN-10: 1101906545
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ISBN-13: 978-1101906545
Aubrey
Hamilton ©2019
Aubrey
Hamilton is a former librarian who works on Federal It projects by day and
reads mysteries at night.
Sunday, January 27, 2019
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