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Earlier this week, John Ottinger of Grasping for the Wind posted another of his ‘Inside the Blogosphere’ interview series, where he asks fellow book bloggers a question about books or reading and posts everyone’s results. ‘How do you organize your library’ was the question this time around, and John got a lot of terrific responses [...]
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Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast books are among my all-time favorites — lush, weird, and full of unforgettable characters locked in a near-operatic conflict of competing passions and duties. As fans of the series know, Peake’s degenerative illness cut this amazing series short, and quite possibly radically influenced the tenor of the third book, Titus Alone. For [...]
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Over at the big BG today I posted a brief write-up that looks at a relatively new line of chapbook novellas from small press Blackwyrm. Focusing on stories that skew genre conventions, the Blackwyrm line has a lot of personality, and it’s great to see a publisher — whether big or small — taking the [...]
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Over at Black Gate I’ve put up a post that provides links to many of my reading related posts from the last year, including the recent ‘Ramp Up Your Reading’ three-parter over at Grasping For the Wind, and some of my old favorites from BG itself, such as my posts on book lists, bookmarks, and [...]
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Just when I thought 2009 had said all it was going to say I see the announcement over at Black Gate that the fourth book in the Imaro saga — that’s right, the never-before-read-or-seen-by-human-eyes fourth book — has just been released from Sword & Soul. With less than twelve hours left in the year, this [...]
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A decade or so ago, when I first discovered Gene Wolfe’s opus The Book of the New Sun, I looked hungrily around for more. More books by the same author, of course, but also books about the New Sun itself; books of criticism, and of reference. Wolfe himself has written some excellent and fascinating essays [...]
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. . . Not even a bibliophile. Since my Black Gate blog day falls on Friday I have the heavy responsibility of coming up with something for Christmas. So, go scan ye merry gentlemen ‘Books at Christmas,’ a simple post I’m offering for kids from one to ninety-two. In it I talk about how books [...]
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This week I’ve had the honor of guest posting over at John Ottinger’s science fiction and fantasy review blog, Grasping For the Wind. My posts appeared Monday, Tuesday, and today, and take the form of a three-part article entitled ‘Ramp Up Your Reading.’ Those of you who have read my posts at Black Gate will [...]
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