Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Inan arvio Kauhajoen runoista

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Kuten tuolla aiemmin, ennen kirjamessuja kirjoitin, tein pienen runovihon nimeltä Kauhajoen runot . Ina Westman sai sen messuilla ja intoutu...
Monday, October 27, 2008

My book out

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My book on Mika Waltari's little-known works is out. Unohdettu Waltari is available through bookstores and libraries, but since it came...
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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Vaskikirjojen uutuuksia

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(Just wanted to give a little boost to a small SF/fantasy publisher working in Finland.) Näin kirjoittaa Vaskikirjojen Erkka Leppänen: Kusta...
Wednesday, October 22, 2008

David Schow's Gun Work out from Hard Case Crime

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The mail brought the newest entry in the Hard Case Crime line, David J. Schow's Gun Work . It looks absolutely thrilling, but I'm tr...
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I ain't no slouch

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I heard today that my book on Mika Waltari has come out of the printers. Will post the cover in due time. I also dropped in by the digital p...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Blood Simple

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Last night I saw the Coen brothers' first film Blood Simple , well, maybe for the fourth time. It's an excellent film - a fitting tr...
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Sunday, October 19, 2008

A new cache of books...

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Just when James and Bill lamented over the fact that they can't find book caches like I do , I come home with a large plastic bag full o...
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Suomen Dekkariseuran blogi

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Suomen Dekkariseura on perustanut blogin, jota vetää seuran puheenjohtaja Kirsi Luukkanen. Uuden blogin voit tsekata täältä . The Finnish Wh...
Thursday, October 16, 2008

Friday's Forgotten Book: Half Breed, by Clint McCall

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I took another day off (I've been having back problems and my masseur told me to rest for a few days) and read some non-work books. Wel...
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The financial crisis: nothing new

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As I said earlier, I was reading Peter Ackroyd's new biography of Poe (highly recommended, solidly written and short and seems to contai...
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Soul Patch [with links added]

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I have a soul patch , so there was a personal sympathy involved when I read Reed Farrel Coleman's award-winning novel Soul Patch . I fin...
Sunday, October 12, 2008

The Shamus awards

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I notice from The Rap Sheet that the Shamus awards (given to the best private eye novels published during a year, mainly (or only?) in the U...
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The year's best book haul

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We took a day off, Elina and I, last Friday and jumped on a train and travelled to Salo (which is half an hour away from Turku) and hunted i...
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Sangster's Private I

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I finished this last night. Well, I can't actually say I finished it, because I had to stop reading some 40 pages before the actual end....
Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Typewriter generated stuff

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Over at Facebook, I commented Ed Lynskey's status. His computer had broken down or something and he was thinking whether he should take...
Monday, October 06, 2008

They give rock cred a new meaning

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Elina was cleaning up and found a clip from the Finnish rock magazine, Rumba, that I'd saved in order to scan a piece from it and post ...

Oh, there was one more still

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One picture more from Muestrario Gaucho .
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Muestrario Gaucho

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I picked this book for 50 cents at the university library's remainder sale. I didn't know what I'd do with it, but the subject ...
Sunday, October 05, 2008

African psychedelia, pt. 2

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I still get a few hits on my old posts that I wrote about African music. A collection that I'd been listening to contained some pieces t...
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Thursday, October 02, 2008

Friday's Forgotten Book: Foreign Exchange, by Jimmy Sangster

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As some readers of this blog may remember, I've been doing a book on British pulp and paperback fiction for years now. It's been on...
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