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An audio crush

April 9, 2020 by Dave Knadler

One little-discussed provision of the pandemic relief bill is that all ad copy and commentary must begin with the words “during these uncertain times.” So. During these uncertain times, I’ve been reading a lot of Agatha Christie. I got the idea after my favorite podcast host, Phoebe Judge, decided to read a chapter a […]

Filed Under: Books, reading, writers

Fifty-two books
and counting

October 16, 2019 by Dave Knadler

the furious hours

I participate in the Goodreads reading challenge mostly to keep track of the books I read in a calendar year. Why that’s important, I don’t know. At this point in life, I guess, I like to take note of the few challenges I can actually accomplish. Now that I’ve ruled out paddling around the […]

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Thar he blows

March 2, 2017 by Dave Knadler

moby dick illustration

Call me Ishmael. Or call me Dave. Really, either one is fine. The thing is, I’ve started reading “Moby Dick.” It’s a Lenten exercise. Last year it was “War and Peace,” this year it’s the great white whale. Somehow I’d managed to avoid it until now. Then Lent rolled around and I started thinking […]

Filed Under: Books, Me, reading

Big Book o’ Time

March 26, 2014 by Dave Knadler

time traveler's almanac

I can’t resist time-travel stories. So when I happened across The Time Traveler’s Almanac on Amazon, I hit the “buy now” button at very nearly the speed of light. If I’d been even quicker, maybe I could have read this post without the trouble of actually writing it. Or something like that. When you […]

Filed Under: Books, reading, short stories

A breath of fresh air from Ontario

March 25, 2012 by Dave Knadler

Black Fly Season giles blunt

For a blog that was supposed to be about crime fiction, the subject hasn’t come up much lately. If you’re one of my eight or so regular readers, it must seem that all I do these days is cruise the news sites in search of current events to be snide or self-righteous about. As […]

Filed Under: Books, reading

One for the price of two

February 24, 2012 by Dave Knadler

ruth rendell rottweiler book cover

Ever pay good money for a book, and then realize two chapters in that you’ve already read it? That’s happened to me more than once, most recently with Ruth Rendell’s The Rottweiler. The bad news: it’s not so great a book that I’d have knowingly bought it twice. The good news: I’ve forgotten how […]

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Time to consume some printed content

February 18, 2009 by Dave Knadler

Read any good books lately? Neither have I. In fact, since the start of the year, I can count the number of books I’ve finished on one hand — and three of them I’ve read before. What’s up with that? The hip, facile answer would be to blame New Media. These days the Web […]

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