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Far Outliers: Wordcatcher Tales: Goze

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Exploring migrants, exiles, expatriates, and out-of-the-way peoples, places, and times, mostly in the Asia-Pacific region. The Roads to Sata: A 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan. By Alan Booth (Weatherhill, 1985), p. 130:. Well into the twentieth century this stretch of coast was the haunt of the. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Sapos yu laik toksave long mi, gmailim mi long faroutliers. Notes from a Tunnel. Frog in a Well. Arts and Letters Daily. A Step at a Time. Wordcatcher Tales: Bandori, Quaintify.

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ReadingBlog: May 2015

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A guide to good and bad reading experiences created by Ken and his reading buddies. And tell a little bit of the world what you think. Big books from a small country. Wrote both of these books by telling two stories: one from the past (that activates Department Q) and one from the present (which brings Mørck into conflict with the bosses who exiled him to the basement offices of Q). While reading, I imagine Adler-Olsen. Hey, and not one word about present or past tenses, until now. Department Q is assign...

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ReadingBlog: Revisiting a long-admired author

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A guide to good and bad reading experiences created by Ken and his reading buddies. And tell a little bit of the world what you think. Revisiting a long-admired author. Long ago, just after Bill Clinton had been elected president, he called Walter Mosley. One of his favorite authors. I remember thinking, "Walter who? Then I went out and got a copy of Devil in a Blue Dress. I was hooked and read many more of his books. Then Mosley. Spoiled me in 1997 by writing Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned. Story ...

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ReadingBlog: October 2014

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A guide to good and bad reading experiences created by Ken and his reading buddies. And tell a little bit of the world what you think. Familiar author, new story. I have four books sitting next to my desk that I've read and haven't written about. All of them were written by authors whose earlier books I'm familiar with. All of them were at least good. Should I do more than make a list of them? Well, of course. The top of the pile is The Spider's Web. St Stephen's parish (the model for Coel's church).

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ReadingBlog: No procrastination, this time

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A guide to good and bad reading experiences created by Ken and his reading buddies. And tell a little bit of the world what you think. No procrastination, this time. It's been over 40 years since I read any Dostoyevsky, but I had flashbacks last night while reading Karin Fossum's. Someone at NPR said a Fossum. Mystery is "equal parts whodunit, heart-thumper and creep show." Fossum. Says they are “small, quiet stories.”. Well, Bad Intentions. Posted by Ken Wedding. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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ReadingBlog: Better late than never?

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A guide to good and bad reading experiences created by Ken and his reading buddies. And tell a little bit of the world what you think. Better late than never? Once again, I have procrastinated about writing things about books I've read. The books have piled up on my desk and my dresser. Why, oh why? I have no answer. Stories so interesting. The new book is The Long Way Home. In the book that preceded The Long Way Home. The great detective cracked a major corruption case that involved the highest levels o...

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ReadingBlog: Familiar author, new story

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A guide to good and bad reading experiences created by Ken and his reading buddies. And tell a little bit of the world what you think. Familiar author, new story. I have four books sitting next to my desk that I've read and haven't written about. All of them were written by authors whose earlier books I'm familiar with. All of them were at least good. Should I do more than make a list of them? Well, of course. The top of the pile is The Spider's Web. St Stephen's parish (the model for Coel's church).

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ReadingBlog: Ignore this

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A guide to good and bad reading experiences created by Ken and his reading buddies. And tell a little bit of the world what you think. Seriously, ignore this. Not the book. Ignore my review. The book is Reginald Hill's. It's been so long since I read it, I have only the vaguest memories of the story. I read the reviews and still don't recall much of the plot. If I finished this 500-page tome, it must have been readable. Was it great? In The New York Times. In The Washington Times. In The Sunday Express.

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ReadingBlog: Traveling in another's mind

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A guide to good and bad reading experiences created by Ken and his reading buddies. And tell a little bit of the world what you think. Traveling in another's mind. Little book, Books and Island in Ojibwe Country. Didn't remind me of Dostoyevsky. It reminded me of Malcolm X's account of his pilgrimage to Mecca. It wasn't so much the enlightenment of the travel as the sense of sacredness and the repetition of ritual that made me think of the journey to a far away desert place. Mishipzheu on a cliff face.

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ReadingBlog: September 2014

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A guide to good and bad reading experiences created by Ken and his reading buddies. And tell a little bit of the world what you think. A few years ago, I invented an Improbability Award for books whose plots contained unlikely or wishful events. My inspiration for this was the spaceship Douglas Adams created in The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I think I have to hand out an Improbability Award in the nth degree to Steve Hamilton. For The Lock Artist. Adams' Heart of Gold. But the whole story and all t...