#author blogging

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Yesterday afternoon I was sitting on my stoop waiting for my ride to pick up my car from the mechanic (I hope and expect that purchasing new tires will be the last major expenditure involved in get…

What this book is, I decided, is All Creatures Great and Small, if it were about dead bodies instead of animals.

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It is very cold and a very fine snow is misting down, and that is just as it should be. Some notes from the home front: While my tea is steeping, I’ve taken to picking up the camera and pract…

In which I post some photography, and muse on my worlds real and imagined.

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Things to be noted

A couple of blogs ago I used to borrow Harriet Vane’s method of detective synthesis and make corresponding lists of “Things To Be Noted” and “Things To Be Done.” It wa…

In which I finally get to brandish an epee.

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Review: Alexandra Rowland, A Conspiracy of Truths

I really thought I was going to like this.

In which I review a book I wish I’d liked.

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…And the living is easy

Not much has been going on here at Maelstrom Manor in the last week or so. I have consumed an appreciable amount of media and an equally appreciable number of very good grilled cheese sandwiches. I…

In which I muse over recent viewing, with a grilled cheese sandwich.

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Admiring other writers, and other invitations

Writers, what mad skills of other writers make you stand back and admire? I’m not talking about the obvious stuff; I’m talking about the kinds of things you know are tricky from trying …

In which I ask the chefs where to dine.

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Review: Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire

I admit my reading is a bit peripatetic. So often do I clamber wearily through my weekly schedule without the energy to do anything more than open up, say, a Vorkosigan omnibus to some random place…

In which I review my weekend’s read.