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August 2016

August 01, 2016

In which the Blogger is Very Truly Run After

Those happy few who have read Vikings at Dino's sure seem to like it; the...

June 2015

June 23, 2015

The Daughter of Time, by Josephine Tey

Following a nudge by Tom McDonald I've just re-read Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time,...

May 2015

May 26, 2015

Book Review: Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture, The Gospel of John

I recently received a review copy of The Gospel of John, by Francis Martin and...

May 20, 2015

Steven Pressfield: The Lion’s Gate

Last year I read and reviewed Steven Pressfield's excellent book The Lion's Gate, which tells...

May 15, 2015

Puttin’ on the Ritz in Fits: Fred Astaire meets Gene Wilder

Because these things make me smile, here are two famous performances of Irving Berlin's "Puttin'...

May 13, 2015

Ngaio Marsh: Night at the Vulcan

Night at the Vulcan, also published as Opening Night, is the sixteenth of Ngaio Marsh’s...

May 05, 2015

Julian May: The Saga of the Pliocene Exile

Julian May's Saga of the Pliocene Exile is a collection of four books: The Many...

April 2015

April 28, 2015

Ngaio Marsh: Death in a White Tie

I’ve been re-reading Ngaio Marsh’s “Roderick Alleyn” mysteries in publication order; and one of my...

April 17, 2015

They’ve Seen Him Out Dressed In My Clothes

Johnny Cash sings the best song about Original Sin I've ever heard: "The Beast in...

April 14, 2015

Ngaio Marsh: Vintage Murder

Ngaio Marsh’s first novel, A Man Lay Dead, is a competent, entertaining mystery, and already...

April 07, 2015

Ngaio Marsh: A Man Lay Dead

Ngaio Marsh (pronounced "NYE-oh") is one of my favorite mystery authors; and she’s striking because...

March 2015

March 31, 2015

A Tour of Tim Powers: On Stranger Tides

After the disappointment of Dinner at Deviant’s Palace I waited with muted anticipation for Tim...

March 24, 2015

A Tour of Tim Powers: Dinner at Deviant’s Palace

This week we continue our tour of Tim Powers' works with his fifth novel, Dinner...

March 10, 2015

C.S. Lewis: The Space Trilogy

A couple of weeks ago, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry posted about his first encounter with C.S. Lewis’...

March 03, 2015

A Tour of Tim Powers: The Anubis Gates

This week I continue my tour of Tim Powers with his first big hit, The...

February 2015

February 24, 2015

Review: Between Silk and Cyanide

I’m taking a break from the Tim Powers tour this week to review a book...

February 17, 2015

A Tour of Tim Powers: The Drawing of the Dark

The third book in Tim Power's body of niftiness is distinctly better than his first...

February 12, 2015

Steven Brust on Being at Peace with Yourself

I remember being accosted on Forbes and Murray in Squirrel Hill by a Buddhist who...

February 10, 2015

A Tour of Tim Powers: The Skies Discrowned and Epitaph in Rust

I had a lot of time on my hands recently, being home with the 'flu...

January 2015

January 27, 2015

Review: The Incrementalists

Despite being a long-time Steven Brust fan, I had somehow missed his collaboration with Skyler...

January 23, 2015

New Book: Slubgrip Instructs

My fellow Patheos blogger Fr. Dwight Longenecker has a new book out, a sequel to...

January 20, 2015

The False Religion of Tomanāk

I'm always fascinated by the presentation of religion in fantasy and science fiction novels. Most...

January 13, 2015

Review: J.R.R. Tolkien, A Life Inspired

Having been a Tolkien fan since I was nine years old, I naturally nabbed Wyatt...

January 06, 2015

Review: Weber’s Star Kingdom Series

As readers of David Weber’s Honor Harrington series know, Honor Harrington is accompanied everywhere she...

December 2014

December 16, 2014

Review: The Latest Honorverse Novels

Once upon a time, David Weber wrote reasonably-sized individual novels concerning a character named Honor...

December 09, 2014

Review: Honor Harrington and the Honorverse

I'm a longtime fan of David Weber, and especially of his Honor Harrington series, which...

November 2014

November 19, 2014

Review: A Call to Duty, by David Weber and Timothy Zahn

A Call to Duty, by David Weber and Timothy Zahn, is the first book in...

November 11, 2014

Review: Gay and Catholic, by Eve Tushnet

Eve Tushnet has been blogging about being a celibate gay Catholic since the term "blogosphere"...

October 2014

October 21, 2014

Review: Hawk, by Steven Brust

There are three authors whose latest books I have regularly bought in hardcover on initial...

October 07, 2014

Review: Desolation Island, by Patrick O’Brian

I've been working my way through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series over the last few weeks;...