Lifelong faves: mysteries, camp, cookbooks, young adult literature, satire. Niches: early film history, lifehacks, The Shadow, codes and ciphers, 20th-c. comic strip compilations, programming/data manuals for nonprogrammers, neurodivergent bright female characters, help for ADHD undiagnosed people. Growing interest in French literature, early 20th century psychological fiction. Top five at present: E. Waugh, R. Chandler, Alan Bradley, Agatha Christie, Gyles Brandreth, T. Sharpe Finished From the Abyss by D K Broster but unable to import it.
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Offers selected pages from the author's illustrated notebooks kept during a three year period when …
Helpful for learning to see and to open the eyes and in turn the creativity parts of the brain. Inspiring.
Inventive, Clever, Charming cartoons about books and the writing of them.
Luke Fitzwilliam, a retired colonial policeman has returned to England and chances to converse on a train with a woman …
Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper of Prydain, faces even more dangers as he seeks the magical Black …
more enjoyable than the first, thanks to plotted character development
Having had enough of life on board the ship that saved her from a watery …
Yaaaar, this be a rippin' yarn, with brave hearts, some asleep in the deep.
tbh I read 40% of this, the practical essays whose techniques I could use right away. But I was moved enough to borrow a book written by one contributor, and have slated for later in the month a project based on the topic of another essay. Change the inner world, the outer world will change as well.
Simon, the foundling from The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, arrives in London to meet an old friend and pursue …
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, …
A short sci-fi novel that kept me riveted is a five-star novel.
I read this because I am, like Paul, hungry for interaction with real people who present themselves as they are, and because I am, like Leonard, bereaved and cooped up for years because people felt they would die or bring death onto others if they smiled at me. Not much opportunity for getting out in the world and not much reward for doing so. I'm glad Mr. Hession knows people like us exist, even in real life, I wish I knew more who are.
Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space-and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family …
A BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF HAUNTED LOS ANGELES
Why did Cecil B. DeMille really …
Dear Mr. Powers, I love your imagination and the places it takes me to. Occultism, old Hollywood, Los Angeles landmarks, Catholicism: I vibrate to this combination. However, your publishing house does not respect you and assigns shoddy proofreaders to your works. Because of the Guy Kibbee eggs recipe I am giving this a four. If you want someone to do more than spell-check your manuscripts, if they are like this, Three Days to Never, and Medusa's Web, please consider me.
sort of finished. Read the stories reviewers deemed decent/good. Horror isn't my thing I guess, even with film-making as a theme.
Released in USA as "Stick Your Neck Out".
I seriously wonder if whoever thought up Bob and Doug McKenzie for "SCTV" upon CRTC requirements for "more Canadian content" had read The Incomparable Atuk first.
