When I Have a Lull, I Write
“When I have a lull in my life, I write, and that’s fairly often,” Lauren Bacall, 80, said, according to the AFP. “Nothing is ever as go...
Year: 2005
Twelve Step Fandango by Chris Haslam
Nominated by the Mystery Writers of America for an Edgar award, Chirs Haslam’s Twelve Step Fandango takes the reader on a fast trip through Spain’s ...
Charlotte Simmons in the Tournament of Books
The First TMN Tournament of Books concludes Monday, and I think it has been successful. I suppose the goal is reader enjoyment, but maybe they are measuring the...
The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Somewhere I’m sure I read The Inimitable Jeeves labeled as a novel. If it is, then it’s a novel in the sense that it’s a book of fiction, not ...
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
As anyone who has tried it can tell you, writing book reviews is hard. It is one thing to read a book and post a couple of sentences on why you liked it, anothe...
An Edgar Nominee in the TBR Pile
Mental Multivitamin has named Collected Miscellany as one of her favorite blogs; she called the writing here ‘smart and worthwhile.’ Kevin and Phil&...