Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is a Halloween freebie topic. Halloween Reading That Won’t Give You Nightmares I don’t like horror, and I don’t like being frightened, but I do enjoy a nice atmospheric book now and then. Here… October 29, 2019 Lark_Bookwyrm Top Ten Tuesday 4
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News The Locus Award winners were announced at the Locus Awards Weekend (July 22-24). Best SF Novel went to John Scalzi’s The Collapsing Empire, Best Fantasy… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Worth Reading/Viewing BookExpo and BookCon 2018: Authors Explore the Multiplicities of Diversity (Publishers Weekly) BookExpo 2018: Reaching the Romance Reader (Shelf Awareness) A BookExpo panel… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is a Halloween freebie topic. Halloween Reading That Won’t Give You Nightmares I don’t like horror, and I don’t like being frightened, but I do enjoy a nice atmospheric book now and then. Here… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Books to Read if You Love/Hate This Super-Popular Book/Author. Agatha Christie is often called the Queen of British mystery. At the very least, she’s one of the grandes dames of classic British… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Things I Love/Hate About Romance in Books. I love meeting authors, or at least getting a chance to hear them talk about their books. And I’ve been really lucky in… Read more »
Today is the 448th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth. Even if you’ve never read his plays or sonnets, you owe Shakespeare quite a lot. According to scholars, he may have contributed as many as 1700 new words to the English language — words like abstemious, lackluster, and zany. He invented phrases… Read more »
One of the genres I enjoy is mystery, and particularly British mystery. Five women dominated the “Golden Age” of British mystery: Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, Josephine Tey, and Margery Allingham. Of the five, Christie and Sayers are probably the best-known. Christie and Marsh enjoyed the longest reigns. Sayers… Read more »
I’ve been watching the “Alleyn Mysteries” produced by the BBC in 1993-1994, based on Ngaio Marsh’s mystery novels. These adaptations are quite good, for the most part. Patrick Malahide and William Simons are perfectly cast as Alleyn and his assistant, Inspector Fox. Their interpretation of the characters and of the… Read more »
In the last month or two, I’ve been rereading Ngaio Marsh’s superb mystery series featuring Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard, most of them for the first time in almost 10 years. I loved them in my high school and college days, and collected the lot, most of them in hardcover… Read more »
