Category Archives: books
Thrilling & Manipulative
These days the U.S. adult genre fiction market perhaps breaks down into about 2/5 romance, 1/3 crime/mystery/thrillers, and 1/4 science fiction/fantasy. Within the second genre group, I’m much more interested in mysteries than modern thrillers. Years ago I did enjoy … Continue reading
Cheever’s Wapshots
A decade ago I purchased Kindle edition of The Stories of John Cheever, a collection which won a Pulitzer. I knew The New Yorker had published over 120 of his short stories, and I knew that The Swimmer, a 1968 … Continue reading
Final Outings with Carlton Keith
The autumn of 2020 featured pandemic travel restrictions, and one of my responses was to collect from around the world each of the six adult mysteries authored by Carlton Keith, a pseudonym for Keith Robertson, who used his real name … Continue reading
Escaping to Scotland with Mary Stewart
Mary Stewart’s second novel, Wildfire at Midnight, is set on the coast of the Isle of Skye off the northwest coast of Scotland. The first of her suspense romances I had read was her seventh, The Moon-Spinners of 1962, which … Continue reading
PNW 2026, Days 5-8: Victoria
My only ventures beyond the United States have been to Victoria and Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. I visited them in 1999 and returned to Victoria in 2005 and 2008. Wendy and I traveled to Victoria from the Olympic Peninsula … Continue reading
Meador Manor 