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Book Scribbles: July 2015
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Random Thoughts, Random Books, Random Minds. Wednesday, July 1, 2015. Will the Real Vulcan Please Stand Up. The second book in the interplanetary steampunk. Adventures of Capt Robert Folkestone and Sgt. Felix Hand is available in print. A complication in writing the story, but it had nothing to do with the characters or the plot. No, it had to do with Star Trek. Professor Lewis Swift- Astronomer and Searcher for Vulcan. Vulcan, the other. Vulcan. What Vulcan would that be, you ask? You can't find it?
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Book Scribbles: December 2014
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Random Thoughts, Random Books, Random Minds. Thursday, December 18, 2014. Learning to Read by the Colors. I attended Highland Elementary School in National City, Calif., through third grade before moving to Chula Vista and starting at Lauderbach Elementary. I've mentioned elsewhere. Your marbles), and I would be moving on to the upper level SRA Reading Lab (yes! I had big plans for fourth grade, but the best-laid plans of mice and schoolchildren oft go astray. In the summer of that year, my parents moved...
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Book Scribbles: August 2014
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Random Thoughts, Random Books, Random Minds. Wednesday, August 20, 2014. The Afterlife of HP Lovecraft. 20 August 1890 - 15 March 1937). But when Lovecraft died of cancer in 1937, was that really the end for him? Perhaps personally, if his beliefs were correct, but not for his name, his stories, or his ideas. It may not be reincarnation in the tradition of our Hindu brethren, but HP Lovecraft continues to touch minds and change lives 115 years after his birth. Question: "Have you ever read HP Lovecraft?
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Book Scribbles: October 2014
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Random Thoughts, Random Books, Random Minds. Thursday, October 2, 2014. For everyone who collects, accumulates or hoards books, there eventually comes a point where you have to shed books. No doubt, if you fall into one of those three categories, you have changed residences at least once in your life, meaning you already know what it's like to lose friends and/or family. The last time I moved (which was the last. Set that takes up so much room.hint. Ralph E. Vaughan. Links to this post. French magazine P...
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Book Scribbles: Unreal Biographies
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Random Thoughts, Random Books, Random Minds. Thursday, April 19, 2012. When you are a fictional character (in the real sense, not the metafictional. Sense), there are two ways you can tell you've crossed the boundary between the printed page and our world - you either get mail (as Santa Claus did in Miracle on 34th Street. Miss Marple, on the other hand, finished her last case ( Sleeping Murder. Was he a detective? Was he the editor of his own magazine? Was he even a real person? Nero Wolfe, America's gr...
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Book Scribbles: The Art Nouveau Books of Henry van Dyke
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Random Thoughts, Random Books, Random Minds. Thursday, June 14, 2012. The Art Nouveau Books of Henry van Dyke. I have a fondness for Art Deco design, the angular streamlining so familiar to fans of the Poirot. British television series set between the Great War and the Not-so-Great War, but I have a weakness. It was my weakness for Art Nouveau that first drew me to writings of Henry van Dyke (1852-1933), specifically a copy of Companionable Books (1922). By companionable books I mean those that are worth...
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Book Scribbles: 60 (yes, 60) Years of Bond
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Random Thoughts, Random Books, Random Minds. Monday, October 8, 2012. 60 (yes, 60) Years of Bond. Oh my, all the hype and hoopla about 2012 being the semicentennial or golden jubilee anniversary of James Bond, Agent 007 with a license to kill and thrill in defense of the British Realm. Life Magazine. Has even risen from dormancy to publish a special issue dedicated to the man with the Walther PPK and all those tricky cars; if you're a fan, I greatly recommend the Life. The problem is, this is not. Writte...
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Book Scribbles: The Story Behind "Sherlock Holmes, the Dreaming Detective"
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Random Thoughts, Random Books, Random Minds. Wednesday, January 26, 2011. The Story Behind Sherlock Holmes, the Dreaming Detective. Sherlock Holmes, The Dreaming Detective" was the second Sherlock Holmes/HP Lovecraft book published by Gary Lovisi at Gryphon Books in Brooklyn, N.Y., though it was the first book specifically submitted to him. At the time, I did not think I would write another Holmes/Lovecraft story, but this tale came to mind, and I had to set it down. The problem is that the story was.
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Book Scribbles: "Where's the beer?"
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Random Thoughts, Random Books, Random Minds. Thursday, February 23, 2012. America's greatest detective: Nero Wolfe. Portrait by Kevin Gordon). Beginning with his first appearance in the book Fer-de-Lance. Since this is more along the lines of a memoir, those seeking detailed biographical and analytical musings are referred to the excellent Trivia and Treasures from Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Detective Stories. How soldiers are; to top it off, for a period of time I was stationed in Germany - beer central!
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Book Scribbles: Leslie Ford's Fall from Grace
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Random Thoughts, Random Books, Random Minds. Sunday, July 8, 2012. Leslie Ford's Fall from Grace. Leslie Ford (Zenith Jones Brown). Since none of them read much of anything, and especially not period fiction which is my forte, I have to commit a visual sin to arouse their ire - The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. 1952), however, I am safe from their hateful predacity.if they only knew! In 1931 and her last, Trial for Ambush. Or The Speckled Band. Ah, perhaps you begin to understand why the Ministry of Political...
