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Daily Journal March 15, 2020

March 15, 2020

Hobie was the Maine Coon cat I got in 1991 to replace Dexter, the Abyssinian that died in September Read More

June 1, 2019

I just finished The Tuscan Child, a 2018 novel by Rhys Bowen. It’s the first book I’ve read by her. Read More

February 23, 2019

Past Tense is the 23rd Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child. I’ve read all of them, starting with the Read More

February 2, 2019

Reckless Daughter is a biography of singer Joni Mitchell written by David Yaffe. The book was Read More

February 2, 2019

Thirteen is the third book in a series by Belfast author Steve Cavanagh with Eddie Flynn as the Read More

October 10, 2018

I finished the 2017 book by British spy novelist John le Carré a few weeks ago. In the late 70s I Read More

October 8, 2018

Pushkin Vertigo is a London-based imprint of Penguin Random House that has been reissuing Read More

September 2, 2018

The Weekly Standard had an long (and good) article about John Coltrane and the history of post-WW II Read More

August 7, 2018

I just finished reading The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (TGWTAEFAE), by David Lagercrantz. It’s Read More

July 31, 2018

I’ve been reading a lot of Celtic and Scandinavian noir stories lately and stumbled across this Read More

July 24, 2018

I just finished the 4thbook in the Millennium series – The Girl In The Spider’s Web(TGITSW). Read More

July 10, 2018

I finished The Immortalists the other day, a second novel by Chloe Benjamin. Full disclosure – Read More

July 10, 2018

I got to thinking about this list when I was noodling about the remarkable strong run of albums from Read More

July 10, 2018

I don’t usually remember dreams. Sometimes I’ll wake up in the middle of the night thinking that the Read More

June 15, 2018

We moved into the house shortly after construction was completed in early 2012. The 3 acre yard then Read More