tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28999069370013326632012-01-11T17:19:40.871-05:00...far too many words, but you knew that...Abbeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09074750100009800321noreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899906937001332663.post-8473298891116399382012-01-11T17:15:00.003-05:002012-01-11T17:19:40.879-05:00

Mortal Stakes by Robert B. Parker My rating: 4 of 5 stars BOTTOM LINE: This third Spenser story is a tidy PI tale centered around baseball, porno movies, and blackmail, mixed with a good deal of information about what makes Spenser "tick". A bit old-fashioned seeming now, but still powerful - and entertaining. Three-and-one-half stars, but I don't know how to give a rating of a half-star.

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A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh My rating: 4 of 5 stars BOTTOM LINE: Thoroughly old-fashioned "good read!", with an aristo-detective, all the suspects gathered in A Great House for a weekend house party, a peculiar murder method, wild Bolsheviks complicating everything, family intrigues galore, an affable-but-dim Watson - what's not to like? First mystery novel (1934) from a now-classic author

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Ghost Story by Jim Butcher BOTTOM LINE: Unlucky #13 for Butcher/Dresden Files? This was the first novel of the series that hasn't completely grabbed me by the throat from the get-go and MADE me read desperately to the end. Or, perhaps, it's just that the author has slowly become more subtle in his effects....? I'm of at least two minds about this novel. True, I couldn't easily put it down

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I'm unsure as to whether or not anyone would still want to read my rantings and ravings, as I've not submitted a new post for almost a year now, but I'm going to try and post one a week in 2012. Likely to be about books, what I'm reading or discussing at Goodreads or 4MysteryAddicts or DorothyL, or maybe crafts or cats or spiritual matters...! It's bitterly cold around here (Boston) today, and

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What's going on in your neck of the woods re. library funding and usage these days? I've just heard that my local library branch is coming extremely close to the ol' guillotine, its small size having likely condemned it to extinction due to budget cuts. Most folks in Boston have known that city and state funding to libraries will be a lot less this year, but to hear that my local library is

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ALL right. as you may have already suspected, I haven't a clue as to what I'm doing here, but wanted to claim the name for myself since I can't think of anything better and, well, "you know". Despite many urgings by my overwhelmed email correspondents over the years I have resisted starting my own blog but have finally decided to give 'em a break. But I truly hate not knowing how to proceed!

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