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Douglas B. Green’s Singing Cowboys

Singing Cowboys! Just picture them, all dressed in their flashy Nudie shirts, plunking on a Martin D-45, perched on their faithful palomino or roan, singing their hearts out to the beautiful daughter of the local ranch owner. Gene Autry, or … Continue reading

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Nicholas Griffin’s Dizzy City

This book arrived in the Green Man mailroom some time ago as an uncorrected proof. The brownies put it into my review pile I think because I’ve reviewed other books about people who arrive in New York City and find … Continue reading

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Paul Green’s Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns: Supernatural and Science Fiction Elements in Novels, Pulps, Comics, Films, Television and Games

Craig Clarke wrote this review. Traditional Westerns offer some of the best reading around, but an enthusiast also appreciates a blending of genres now and then. Westerns with crime fiction tropes are fairly easy to find; that’s just your average … Continue reading

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Giorgia Grilli’s Myth, Symbol and Meaning in Mary Poppins: the Governess as Provacteur; and Valerie Lawson’s Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P. L. Travers

Faced with two books on a similar theme, where one is a critical analysis and the other a biography, I am generally inclined to the critical analysis. As an academic historian, I regard biography with a certain amount of suspicion. … Continue reading

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Chris Marie Green’s Night Rising: Vampire Babylon, Book 1

While recovering from the near-career suicidal move of assaulting a major movie star (he had it coming), stuntwoman Dawn Madison is contacted by an unusual Hollywood PI firm Limpet and Associates, because her father has gone missing. And even though … Continue reading

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Martin H. Greenberg and Brittany A. Koren, Ed.s’ Single White Vampire Seeks Same

Naomi de Bruyn wrote this review. Some people spend their entire life looking for love and never, ever find it. Love is elusive, and oft times very fickle; it can be an impossible task to find one’s “soul-mate.” And that … Continue reading

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Paul Grushkin & Dennis King’s The Art of Modern Rock

A long time ago, more years than I’d like to count, I was the assistant editor of my high school yearbook. Okay, it was 1968 and we had an art editor who was deeply influenced by the posters coming from … Continue reading

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Meri Allen’s Fatal Fudge Swirl

Meri Allen’s Fatal Fudge Swirl is the latest in her Ice Cream Shop Mystery series. As the third volume in the series, the book not only represents a run finding its stride but also introduces a decided holiday theme. The … Continue reading

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Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312

Kim Stanley Robinson fooled me again. The main body of his prose in 2312 is so calm and measured, coolly analytical and matter of fact, that I must have been expecting the Solar System-wide conflict that it portrays to be … Continue reading

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Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver

Ordinarily, when you read about the great discoveries of the Enlightenment and the lives of the men who made them, you get quite a sterile view of those lives. In Wikipedia’s entry on Isaac Newton, for instance: “In June 1661, … Continue reading

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