Gotta love those gothic tales.

The Tell-Tale Heart
I love the old man, but his staring eye gives me the creeps. I'll just have to chop him up. And bury the bits under his bed. BUT HIS HEART KEPT BEATING I HEAR IT, I TELL YOU.

Gothic checklist:
Obsessed main character who thinks he's perfectly normal - check. He's not even crazy, he just has super ( Read more... )

What does an adrenaline-junkie soldier do upon reaching the top of the promotion ladder, and the next promotion up is a desk job?  Find a new ladder.   Devi wants to join the elite King’s Guard even though she’s barely thirty, and that means finding an active-duty job.  Her boyfriend finds a cursed ship looking for security. While Devi doesn’t ( Read more... )

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Uh, who says um more than once a sentence? Why do we do that?

It used to be that people ignored the 'um'.
Then Freud said its a sign of deep seated anxiety.
Then Reverend Spooner turned the whole business into a joke.
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The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
What if Abraham Lincoln (national leader, freed the slaves) and Osama Bin Ladin (terrorist, slaughter of innocents)  were rolled up into one person?  And what if you threw in a bit of Borgia (poison your political enemies) just to round things out?   ( Read more... )

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I have a story in an anthology - hurray!
at amazon, here:http://www.amazon.com/Undead-Winter-Sarah-E-Glenn/dp/0989007650/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1386092698&sr=1-1&keywords=

Subtitle: Women and Work in Medieval Europe

If you want to know what people do for a living, just remember how the United States government trapped mobster Al Capone: Follow the Taxes. Notice what other people quote them as saying or doing. And when possible, track down their own words.

This was an enjoyable book, well worth reading.

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According to http://www.cozy-mystery.com/Definition-of-a-Cozy-Mystery.html, a cozy mystery is becoming more and more popular.  And except for the 'usually a woman' phrase, this all describes a Dick Francis novel...  no wonder I love his books.
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