My review: The twelfth in Martin Limón’s Sueño and Bascom series, featuring two CID agents in South Korea in the early 80s, and I think his best by far. Three GI’s have gone missing, all of whom have abused Korean women, and Command sends Sueño and Bascom to find them. It’s a solid whodunnit, a…
Read more I’d never known anyone who cared less about the opinions of others.
Bunches of THG links I have been interviewed about The Harvey Girl. I am being interviewed about The Harvey Girl. I will be interviewed about The Harvey Girl. I shall have been about to be interviewed about The Harvey Girl. "I have no nervous left." "Tough, focused, protean." "For many of [the Harvey Girls] this was their first…
Quote: “As Michael monitored outgoing deliveries in the garage, he told me about a unit in Hackensack that had belonged to a socialite. It was heaped with trash bags containing Prada dresses, Hermès scarves and jewelry. There were also empty vodka bottles, divorce papers and distressing financial documents…Her life had clearly fallen apart,” he said.…
I heard the Indigo Girls sing this live in concert in Anchorage lo these many years ago. Pretty sure I was the only straight person in the first twenty rows. Heh.
A fascinating read, with something important to teach every writer, fiction or non. “You weren’t bitten by a dog,” one nurse told me. “You were mauled by one.” It took me months to recover, and that gave me time to think. I thought about my body, which hurt in ways I’d never felt—not just in worse ways,…
…Younger sons cannot marry where they like. …“Is this,” thought Elizabeth, “meant for me?” –Jane Austen At the time she had wondered whether the remark had held a warning and the suspicion had caused her some embarrassment which she had attempted to hide by turning the conversation into a pleasantry. But the memory of the…
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Dana sez, Fascinating discussion (video+transcript) on the Hungarian election, with a lot of details that never made it into the Western media. You’ll love the zebras. (Paul Krugman) These are the sweetest little videos. Love the one with the frog. (h/t The Kid Should See This) Quote: “The Epstein files offer the public an education…
April 2022. [internal chukar monologue]: “WTH. It’s April 7th, people, and instead of building a nest and making babies I’m sitting here getting snowed on while Crazy Lady takes pictures of me through her window. Enough to make a bird fly south again.” [internal Dana monologue]: “I looked up and he was gone, leaving this…
On Wednesday this showed up in my feed. It’s a great song but it’s been a nonstop earworm ever since. I see no need to suffer alone, so here you go. Along with the original, of course.
I love a good acknowledgements page at the back of a novel, where the author tells us where they got all their ideas. I try to write them for mine, too. Here’s the one I wrote for The Harvey Girl. It’s six pages long in the book, and it ain’t short here, either. I hope…
