Saturday Miscellany—8/13/22

It’s Left Hander’s Day and I should have a list of characters to mention here, but I can only think of Kvothe and Arya Stark when it comes to fiction. Anyone out there know of any notable sinistral characters? There has to be a bunch of them…

I don’t have a long list today, apparently I wasn’t the only one not feeling incredibly creative this week. (or with time on our hands). More time for our Weekend Reads, right?

Odds ‘n ends about books and reading that caught my eye this week. You’ve probably seen some/most/all of them, but just in case:
bullet Where Are Mass Market Paperbacks Headed?
bullet The Fine Art of Naming Characters in Crime Fiction
bullet Anne Rice and the making of a modern vampire
bullet The Five Great Novels of Dashiell Hammett—for years I’ve told myself I need to read Hammett…this might have pushed me over the edge.
bullet NetGalley’s blog, We Are Bookish, had a couple of handy posts this week:
bullet NetGalley’s Guide to Who to Tag in Book Reviews
bullet Tips for Battling Reviewer Writer’s Block
bullet The Books that Made Me – The Once and Future King by T.H. White—Inexplicably, I’ve never been able to finish this book, I need to give it another shot.
bullet Different Ways To Categorise Fantasy—another helpful post from Peat Long
bullet Reading & Book Collecting
bullet 10 Years, 10 Favorite Books—Great idea for a post, but I have no idea how Caitlin was able to limit it to just one book for each year without at least one tie. (then again, I do, what 5 or 6 best of lists each year, I clearly have trouble limiting myself)
bullet How Reviewing Changed the Way I Read?

A Book-ish Related Podcast episode (or two) you might want to give a listen to:
bullet The Thriller Zone Episode 83: Eli Cranor, author of Don’t Know Tough—Cranor sounds and talks just like you’d expect, this was a great chat.

This Week’s New Releases that I’m Excited About and/or You’ll Probably See Here Soon:
bullet Bark to the Future by Spencer Quinn—Chet and Bernie are back for novel #13, and it’s a doozy. Bernie tries to help an old high school teammate and gets into a lot of trouble. I blogged about it couple of weeks ago
bullet The Art of Prophecy by Wesley Chu—What do you do when the prophecy about the Chosen One who will save the country is wrong? Taishi, the greatest war artist of her generation, decides to mold the object of the prophecy into who the kingdom needs him to be.
bullet The Deal Goes Down by Larry Beinhart—a retired PI is hired as a hitman and ends up working to save women from abusive marriages—and make money at the same time. (that’s a lousy job of summarizing the description, but without reading the book, it’s as good as I’m going to get…click the link)

Lastly, I’d like to say hi and extend a warm welcome to tinareadsallthebooks who followed the blog this week. I hope you enjoy the content and keep coming back.
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10 Comments

  1. Can’t believe you haven’t been a fan of “The Once and Future King” – all the fantasy skills of Tolkien but with a LOS sense of humor – especially in the first section, before Arthur is crowned. Try it again!

    • HCNewton

      It makes no sense to me, either. Clearly was in a weird mental space when I’ve tried it before…

  2. I meant LOL

  3. My first comment, mysteriously missing, was “Can’t believe you’re not a fan of “The Once and Future King” – all the fantasy of Tolkien, but with LOL humor to boot!

  4. Peat

    Thanks for the shout as ever, looking forwards to poking through the links. Speaking of – that Anne Rice one looks broke to me?

  5. It was super hard choosing just one – if I made the list again, I’d probably have different choices!

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