summer reading
September 5, 2009
- Summer is almost over. I thought I would talk about the books I've been reading this summer. Actually, I'm a little embarrassed. They are kind of low brow. I thought of trying to impress you by saying that I was re-reading Thomas Mann's masterpiece, Doctor Faustus, while playing Wagner's majestic Goetterdaemurung as backround music. But I don't think I would be fooling anybody.By the ...
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August 10, 2009
- I'm delighted to announce I've posted "New World Man" on my site, as of this morning. I consider this tale to be one of the ten best I've ever written--it appears in my Reality Machine (1997) collection and posits a near future world where even the traditional family has broken up...and revolution is in the air. I once jokingly called it "the last cyberpunk story" and ...
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July 10, 2009
- Across the Pond by Storyheart - New Reviews Across the Pond a book for the young and young at heart. YA, teen, romance what ever you like to call it.With the book now being available in book stores I have started to receive some new reviews from the book launch.Here is what a couple of readers have said about the book today...ReviewTheBook.com Reviewed by Angela SimmonWith characters so lively ...
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June 17, 2009
May 29, 2009
- What do two English professors on vacation bring to the beach? Oh, sure. We have Harper's, a New Yorker, and A Comics Study Reader, a book about comic critique (this is not my book--Kris is writing a review). I brought the text I'm using in my summer classes, but we've read none of these. Below follows the material we've consumed: People (Bristol Palin on the cover), Redbook, Marie ...
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May 26, 2009
- Good afternoon everyone! What a month we've had! First of all, the new website is up and running at last...please stop by, take a look and tell your friends!!! www.jrreardon.com This morning I awoke to find that CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS has received another fabulous review on Amazon! Check it out below..."****Mystery fans, meet attorney Rebecca Lawson, May 25, 2009 By Reads to SleepIn J. ...
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April 27, 2009
- MAY NEWS FROM SUSAN WIGGS“…you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable / And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table / No one can find the rewind button, girl / So cradle your head in your hands / And breathe... just breathe…” – Anna Nalick, “Breathe(2am)”In this Issue... In stores now! JUST BREATHE, out for the first time in paperback!Watch the Just Breathe ...
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July 23, 2008
- Over the past few weeks, newspapers and magazines have been engaged in one of the more persistent rites of summer—the publication of articles focusing on “beach reads.” These articles (often just lists of beach read suggestions) tend to assume we’re all on board with the concept they promote—that is, when summer comes we only want books that are entertaining, and that don’t make us ...
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June 30, 2008
- The summer just before I turned eleven years old, I first read Burroughs and Baum. That's William Burroughs: author of Junkie and Naked Lunch. And L. Frank Baum: author of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz books. When I was ten, we moved from San Francisco to Larkspur, a small town in Marin County which had yet to become the cutesy "historic" village it is today. That first year -- my fifth ...
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June 30, 2008
- The only reading I got done yesterday involved The NY Times, The SF Chronicle, and redroom blogs, which were so interesting to me in terms of discussing King Lear and "genius." I'm not sure I have an answer of the genius definition, but it was fun getting toward it. Often, I fine defining things shrinks them, so maybe I prefer a constant state of trying to figure something out. Life ...
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