Category Archives: Books

More Bondage in Nancy Drew

Posted on March 17, 2016 by ubu507

The Bungalow Mystery by Carolyn Keene, 1960 edition. There is a fair amount of people getting restrained in ND, but that’s probably because there isn’t a lot of actual murder.

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Hard Light, Elizabeth Hand, Minotaur, $25.99.

Posted on February 29, 2016 by ubu507

A stolen passport will only get you so far. That memorable first sentence reintroduces us to one of my favorite protagonists, Elizabeth Hand’s Cass Neary. Hard Light, the third installment in the misadventures of our anti-heroine follows closely on the … Continue reading →

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from the Great Lakes Center for the Literary Arts Literocity Book Culture Club

Posted on February 26, 2016 by ubu507

Homer Pettingil was a decent little man – sober, industrious, a pillar of his community, until he… attended a convention, met up with a back-slapping buddy, drank enough daiquiris to douse his discretion, accepted the invitations of a shady lady … Continue reading →

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The Reader Wreathed with Flowers (Virgil’s Muse)

Posted on January 13, 2016 by ubu507

 Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1845 Musée du Louvre, Paris

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Holiday Reading From the Superior Center for Literocity

Posted on December 24, 2015 by ubu507

Inside the box were five golden rings. With the fingers still in them (as my daughter likes to say about earrings, the bigger the O the bigger the HO)

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Bethany

Posted on September 18, 2015 by ubu507

“In case of emergency dress slutty to distract a boy from seeing the real you.” — Bethany Neal, My Last Kiss

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The Romance of Old Books

Posted on July 8, 2015 by ubu507
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817 South Stull

Posted on June 18, 2015 by ubu507

While I was in Bloomington I made a pilgrimage to the house Ross Lockridge, Jr. was living in at the time of his suicide. There was a guy standing outside it with a compost bag. Is this 817 South Stull? … Continue reading →

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From the Great Lakes Center for the Literary Arts and Litterlatte Book Salon Community Book Read

Posted on June 2, 2015 by ubu507

PERRY MASON’S CLIENT WAS GUILTY — at least of some things. She was living under a false name. She had taken another woman’s purse containing $4, 000. She had stabbed a man with an ice pick. She had fled from … Continue reading →

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The Tourist and All the Old Knives, Olen Steinhauer, Minotaur, $14.99, 23.99.

Posted on May 26, 2015 by ubu507

The world of the spy novel can be a fascinating one. In the mystery universe murder is always lurking below the surface of our quotidian world, but it’s an anomaly, a rent in the social fabric that must be repaired. … Continue reading →

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