December 2012
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Dark Reads for Dark Winter Days
In many ways, winter is an ideal setting for a story. Stark landscapes of vast white nothingness, silence punctured by the occasional chirp of a bird or a distant train whistle, and the sense of time standing still provide a fitting backdrop for tales of sorrow, solitude, suspense and ennui. Here are five fiction selections… Continue reading
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Death Comes Knocking
Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me. The Carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. -Emily Dickinson A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore is an edge-of-your-seat read. After seeing a man in mint green at his wife’s hospital bedside – a man he shouldn’t be able to see – Charlie Asher’s life… Continue reading
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Three For Free: Old Blues for Me, Please…
I just downloaded three free songs from the library. No fee, no borrowing, no waiting–they’re all mine. It could have been any genre, but lately for me it’s all about the Blues–old, gritty, raw Blues–the kind of sound that lingers long after the music stops. One was “Boogie Chillin” by John Lee Hooker. It’s great for heading… Continue reading