What Are You Reading? Part Deux

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Dana Jean

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I do love some Fannie Flagg morgan ! I have All Girls Filling Station - I just didn't finish it - I got distracted and didn't go back.

Nice surprise to see you MadamMack !!

I finished Those Who Wish Me Dead - wow! Very good - I've heard there will be a movie and I'm looking forward to it!

I've started back on One Hundred Years of Solitude. It's interesting and the writing and visuals are awesome. I just think I need more numbers in my IQ to understand it easily. It's a gratifying read, not an easy one.
I also got interrupted when I started All Girls. I'll get back to it some day and start from the beginning. Fannie Flagg is a really good writer. Just writes like people talk and think. Full of information and quirk.
 

Dana Jean

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...quite!!.....
wait wait wait.... let's back this hack train up.

I just pulled my copy down and this is an anthology with lots of authors contributing. I thought this was ALL Petah ALL the time!

So, my hope is soaring that there are some good stories in here. But first,

I am reading:

Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
 

GNTLGNT

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wait wait wait.... let's back this hack train up.

I just pulled my copy down and this is an anthology with lots of authors contributing. I thought this was ALL Petah ALL the time!

So, my hope is soaring that there are some good stories in here. But first,

I am reading:

Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
...yeah but Petah picked a peck of poopers....
 

Dana Jean

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Psycho by Robert Bloch.

Seen all the movies, the T.V. show, but never read the book. Which the one I own was published by Overlook Press. Can someone tell me if this was possibly sent out in a Cemetery Dance grab bag of other publisher's works? Something about the book is making me think it was.

This is not to be confused with Psychos, an anthology that Cemetery Dance put out (which I wish I owned.)

Anyway, interesting read. Some differences and changes, small, but Alfred Hitchcock did a great job with this story, and Robert Bloch did a great job inspiring the images.
 

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I read a novella called Backshot by Tom Piccirilli. It was a book I got in a grab bag from CD. It is about a career criminal out for revenge after he was shot in the back by his partner and made to take the fall for a robbery. Good stuff. That was the first book I have read from this author and am going to find some more. I read that he died a few years ago at age 50 from brain cancer.
 

Dana Jean

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I read a novella called Backshot by Tom Piccirilli. It was a book I got in a grab bag from CD. It is about a career criminal out for revenge after he was shot in the back by his partner and made to take the fall for a robbery. Good stuff. That was the first book I have read from this author and am going to find some more. I read that he died a few years ago at age 50 from brain cancer.
Backshot was one of my Cemetery Dance thread's thoughtsapaloozas. THere are two Backshots by Ed Gorman and Tom Piccirilli, 1902 or 2012, which did you read?
 
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