This week was a mixed bag of short stories, non-fiction, a mystery, and not much time for making notes on the books and uploading cover images. I'm really surprised that I've been pretty faithful with the Deal Me In challenge
.
A lot of my reading this week had to do with places I've been.
Story: The Boar-Pig (in
Beasts and Super-Beasts by Saki)
A short piece involving party crashers, a mischievous girl, and a ferocious beast. This is a gentle story, not one of Saki's macabre pieces.
Card: Ten of Diamonds.
This card from
Roy at Deviant Art has nothing to do with the story. I just thought it was a fun design.
from the library....
The Lying Game by Ruth Ware (Kindle edition)
from my shelves...
Conversations on Art and Aesthetics by Hans Maes
One of my better wins. This is a keeper.
free finished copy from publisher through Goodreads
Russian Émigré Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky by Bryan Karetnyk (Editor/Translator)
Super anthology.
Old Rendering Plant by Wolfgang Hilbig: translated from the German by Isabel Fargo Cole
Not crazy about this one.
Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology by Eric H Cline, Glynnis Fawkes (Illustrator) (Kindle ed)
Kind of a refresher course for me. Read it mostly to get updated on recent stuff.
The Lawrence Durrell Travel Reader by Lawrence Durrell, Clint Willis (Editor) (Kindle ed)
And this was a bit of a trip down memory lane.
San Francisco Noir by Peter Maravelis (Editor) (Kindle ed)
I've read a bunch of these anthologies in the Akashic Noir series and this is my least favorite. I really didn't much like any of the stories.
Stories by Domenic Stansberry, Barry Gifford, Eddie Muller, Robert Mailer Anderson, Michelle Tea, Peter Plate, Kate Braverman , David Corbet , Alejandro Murguía, Sin Soracco , Alvin Lu, Jon Longhi, Will Christopher Baer, Jim Nesbit, David Henry Sterry.
Ccaspian Rain by Gina B. Nahai (Kindle ed)
A tragic story of a Jewish family in Tehran immediately preceding the 1979 Revolution. I really liked this.
Return to Dust (Rick Van Lam Mystery #2) by Andrew Lanh
Set in Farmington, Connecticut with a Vietnamese-American private investigator. An ok read with nice local color.
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