Sunday, July 31, 2005

We're back

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We just came back from our trip. I don't know how much I'll be able to write about our trip, since my daughter Ottilia is coming ove...
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Monday, July 25, 2005

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Chase's Shock Treatment , the Finnish edition in 1971. The cover is by Matti Louhi, one of the most prolific cover illustrators in the ...
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Couple more British thrillers

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I finished two British thrillers last weekend. The better one was The Sad and Tender Flesh (1966) by Stephen Frances, whom I mentioned ear...
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Friday, July 22, 2005

W. Howard Baker

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Here's the Finnish cover for Strike North (1965) by W. Howard Baker. It's a competent paperback novel of war at sea, with the theme...

Jack Higgins as Martin Fallon

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The Finnish cover of the Martin Fallon/Jack Higgins book I wrote about earlier. It's probably Spanish in origin, since there's the ...

My surprising success with women

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I was at the gym yesterday. There was this quite nice-looking young girl, maybe 20-22. When I was already finishing my workout she came to m...
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Thursday, July 21, 2005

Uh All Night

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I've used the word here before, but Kauto was a real pain-in-the-ass last night. He woke up at 00:00 and Elina tried to sooth him back t...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Sin City

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I noticed scrolling down my earlier posts that I promised to say something about Sin City . The film has had some mixed reviews - no wonder...

Disney tie-in novel

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A novelization of the Disney movie Davy Crockett with Fess Parker. There's no author mentioned, but I believe it's Ardis Edwards Bu...

Ugly James Hadley Chase cover

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James Hadley Chase's second novel was called "The Dead Stay Dumb" and it was published in 1939. For some reason, the first Fi...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Spanish pulp covers

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Roberto who had a comment on my previous post (or one of them, I can't keep track of them anymore) keeps a great blog here . I don't...
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Monday, July 18, 2005

Pulp Fiction, African style

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I got these from an e-mail list I'm on. They are about African, mainly Nigerian, pulp literature that has traditionally been called ...
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Writing binge

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I'm on a writing binge, which is quite rare to me. Once I started working on my mainstream novel about the comic artist I've been at...

Susanna wins a photograph contest

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I've forgotten to mention that my friend Susanna Majuri has won a big photograph contest in France - it was during a show called Work in...
Thursday, July 14, 2005

Negro enjoy banana! Yummy!

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This is from an ABC book I found in a flea market couple days back. It says: "Negro enjoys a banana." [Due to popular demand, I ch...
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Turun Sanomat, the leader of Finnish journalism

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Turun Sanomat (The Turku News) is the leading newspaper in the town we live in - and what a shame that is! It's a boring paper, filled ...
Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Beautiful raw sounds of garage rock

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Haven't been writing about music for a long time, even though I listen to records all the time I'm writing. Past few days I've b...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Missions accomplished

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I finished today two jobs: got to the end of the juvenile novel (it's not actually YA, as I said here before, it's about a 14-year o...
Monday, July 11, 2005

Mark Preston

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I forgot to note last night that the ever reliable Thrilling Detective site has a small entry for Mark Preston, the P.I. hero of Peter Chamb...
Sunday, July 10, 2005

Various stuff, pt. 2

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Now it's cooled off a little bit, so I decided to some blogging while I'm editing a short story for Isku. It's written by some h...