Teaser Tuesday: “The Night Bird”

This week’s Teaser Tuesday comes from The Night Bird, by Brian Freeman, in which a serial killer starts targeting the patients of a psychiatrist whose therapeutic technique involves replacing her patients’ traumatic memories with new, non-traumatic ones, thus curing them of their phobias or whatever. Sort of like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, only without the attractions of any actual science fiction or Kate Winslet.

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A Flock of Crows is Called a … Oh, sorry, different book.

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Teaser Tuesday: “Spin”

So this week I was reading Spin, the Hugo award-winning novel by Robert Charles Wilson, in which mysterious aliens give Earth the Krikkit treatment by encasing it in a “membrane” that induces an extremely steep time differential between what’s inside and what’s outside. Hilarity ensues.

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Down the drain.

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Teaser Tuesday: “Wonder Boys”

This week’s Teaser Tuesday comes from Wonder Boys, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon. This is a book I actually finished quite some time ago, but which I’ve been saving for after my series about The Event was finished.

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Woof.

Since that series is now complete, here is your long-deferred Wonder Boys teaser.

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Teaser Tuesday 11/26/2019: “Night After Night”

Recently I was reading Night After Night, by one of my favorite authors, Phil Rickman, who wrote a couple of amazing horror novels back in the day, but who’s now probably best known for the Merrily Watkins series of (somewhat) paranormal mystery novels. This one is not a Merrily Watkins novel, but it is a—wait for it!—paranormal mystery. Of sorts.

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Knock knock

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Not A Review Of Some Other Stuff I Watched While Waiting For “Avengers: Endgame”

So Netflix finally sent me Avengers: Endgame, a little over a month after it was released on disc. As previously noted, we—mostly meaning me—had to watch a number of other movies while waiting for that one (#firstworldproblems). My wife paid little to no attention to those movies, but she did make a few observations here and there. First up: The Lego Movie.

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It’s “Important” To Put Your Quotation Marks In The “Right” Place

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How “accomplished” are you?

Not A Review Of “Fast Color”

Ever since we got a good-sized television and a Netflix disc subscription, we haven’t been to a movie in the theaters. Not once. Not even for Avengers: Endgame*. But that’s okay, right? Because now it’s out on Blu-Ray and surely Netflix will have bought a zillion copies of it** so that everyone who wants it can see it right away, right?

Wrong.

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Teaser Tuesday 10/15/2019: “Here & There”

Recently I was reading Here & There, a science fiction novel by Joshua V. Scher.

 

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Here and there (and everywhere?)

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Gone Out Of Business Sale

Recently I was reading Plague of Angels, by John Patrick Kennedy:

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4/4 Flying, Vigilance

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Teaser Tuesday 9/17/19: “The Forgotten Ones”

This week’s Teaser Tuesday comes from The Forgotten Ones, by Laura Howard.

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