Monthly Archives: November 2023

I read twenty three books in November, taking my total for the year so far to one hundred and fifty four titles. As in October there were a lot of short books – Amazon gave me a month of free … Continue reading →

A review that originally appeared on the Case Notes blog at the TTA Press website on 9/9/2010: – FATHOM Cherie Priest (Tor paperback, 384pp, $15.99) Nia goes to stay with her wealthy cousin Bernice, but the latter implicates her in the murder … Continue reading →

This comes out the day after Christmas.

A review that originally appeared on the Case Notes blog at the TTA Press website on 10/5/23: – Released in paperback in 2015 by IFWG International Publishing, according to the front cover The Gate at Lake Drive is “Book 1: Dillon the Monster Dick … Continue reading →

We finish this year’s musical odyssey as we began, with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, the last track from the first album, and Bruce even dedicates it to me.

This post follows on from Books Read in 2020, which I posted at the end of October 2023. In 2021 I read one hundred and fifty books, down fifty one from the previous year (which was the year of lockdown … Continue reading →

A review that originally appeared on the Case Notes blog at the TTA Press website on 3/5/23: – Published by Jo Fletcher Books in hardback in 2013 and edited by Stephen Jones, Faerie Tales comes with the subtitle ‘Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome’. … Continue reading →

A review that originally appeared on the Case Notes blog at the TTA Press website on 26/4/23: – Originally published in hardback by Gollancz in 2016, Ezekiel Boone’s The Hatching is the first volume in a trilogy. I guess you could describe the book … Continue reading →

Latest from Ridley Scott.

A review that originally appeared on the Case Notes blog at the TTA Press website on 19/4/23: – Published by Chaosium Inc in 2015, Cassilda’s Song is the second anthology of stories inspired by “The King in Yellow” mythos of writer Robert W. Chambers … Continue reading →