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Teaser Tuesday 2/21/2017: “Invasion of the Tearling”

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So the astute reader, or at least those without short-term memory loss, may remember that a few weeks ago, before I got all sidetracked by Shards‘s unexpected nomination as a Pitch Perfect Pick over at Undeground Book Reviews (which it won — thanks everybody!), I mentioned that I had started working on my next project.  That means it’s time to get back to the work-in-progress teasers, which in turn means it’s time to get back to the Teaser Tuesdays for what I’m currently reading.  Because who wants to just see teasers from an unpublished novel?  No one!

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Teaser Tuesday 10/11/2016: “Mystic River”

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So this week I am, somewhat belatedly, reading Mystic River, by Dennis Lehane, in which a childhood trauma in the 70s leads to a tragic murder in the 00s.  Or at least, that’s how it looks so far …

 

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Not to be confused with Mystic Rhythms

 

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Teaser Tuesday 10/4/2016: “The Lost Fleet – Dauntless”

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So this week I’m reading Dauntless, book one of “The Lost Fleet” series, by Jack Campbell.

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Is this the Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy?

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Teaser Tuesday 9/6/2016: “Seveneves”

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So this week, and given its size, probably for a few more weeks, I’ve been reading Seveneves, an apocalyptic doorstopper of a novel by Neal Stephenson.  Of course, “doorstopper of a novel” and “Neal Stephenson” do tend to go together; this particular one, if I shook it out of my eReader onto a stack of paper, would add up to about 900 pages, or about the same length of the original Shards before I split it into two parts, which I did because nobody is going to cough up $17.99 $11.99 (the current price of Seveneves) for an eBook by me …

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Is it my imagination or did the moon just explode?

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Teaser Tuesday 8/16/2016: “Ticker”

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So this week I’m reading Ticker, by Lisa Mantchev, another in a recent series of steampunk novels that I’ve accumulated over the last few years that have suddenly percolated to the top of the list.  Evidently my random novel selection process has decided that the shelf for this genre needs to be thinned out.

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A girl dog with a clockwork heart must make every second count.

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Teaser Tuesday 8/2/2016: “People Like Us”

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So this week I’ve been reading People Like Us, by Zichao Deng, an amusing, quasi-journal-style crime caper in which two criminally-inclined Englishmen in Brittany plot to relieve a nunnery of an unidentified, but evidently very valuable, artifact.

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Teaser Tuesday 5/24/2016: Not Quite “The End of the Story”

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So this week I’m still reading The End of the Story, by Clark Ashton Smith.

Cover of "The End of the Story"
I know I left a scimitar around here somewhere …

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Teaser Tuesday 5/10/2016: “The End of the Story”

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So this week I’m reading The End of the Story, a collection of short works by Clark Ashton Smith, who was a writer in the vein of HP Lovecraft, albeit (so far) a little less eldritch in his abominations.

Cover of "The End of the Story"
Magic Jammies?

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Teaser Tuesday 4/12/2016: “The Golem and the Jinni”

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So this week I’m reading The Golem and the Jinni, by Helene Wecker, which is not about Grundy and somebody who does not grant wishes, but rather, about a golem whose master dies almost immediately after she becomes animated and a jinni who is accidentally freed from an olive oil decanter while it is in for repairs.

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Both of these rather lost supernatural creatures find themselves adrift in New York City at the very end of the 19th century.  Hilarity, most likely, does not ensue.

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Teaser (Sort Of) Tuesday 2/16/2016: “That Frequent Visitor”

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So last week I was reading a book called That Frequent Visitor, by K. Hari Kumar.

Talk to the hand.
Talk to the hand.

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