Friday, August 28, 2009

Friday's Forgotten Book: Päivö Suomela's Mustan ketun kirot

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Okay, this is really a forgotten book, since it's Finnish - and I don't think anyone's read that even in here for at least 20 ye...

Another blog post on another blog

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Hell, I seem to be more active in my other blogs than this one... Here goes nevertheless: another post on Finnish war-time magazines here .
Thursday, August 27, 2009

Allan Guthrie's Savage Night

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Allan Guthrie's Savage Night (2008) is not an easy feat. It's not entertainment, even though it's wildly funny, in a way you ju...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Citta Violent/The Violent City

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I watched last night an Italian film called Citta Violenta aka The Violent City . It's one of the better Italian crime films from the si...

Pulpish illustration from a Swedish mag

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Bought this earlier today from the Turku market square, where there's a bookseller. It's a Swedish hobby mag from 1944. The illustra...
Thursday, August 20, 2009

Panu Räty on Finnish pulp literature

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Quote from the City weekly in 1991. Sorry 'bout being in Finnish. Can't really begin to count the errors on this small item... Let...
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Sunday, August 16, 2009

Harlequin's vintage collection

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Someone pointed out earlier today at the Rara-Avis e-mail list (which is focused on hardboiled and noir crime writing) that Harlequin is bri...
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Reading doesn't pay: Gregg Hurwitz: The Program

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As I mentioned, I've been silent here for some days now, mainly because I've been both working frantically and trying to spend some ...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

A piece on Finnish fictionmag

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I posted a piece on a Finnish war-time fictionmag on one of my other blogs here . Sorry to have been so silent, trying to get the work routi...
Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Bloodstone

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I've been watching some films lately, which is surprisingly rare for me nowadays - the work (which involves a lot of reading and I don...
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Friday, July 31, 2009

Jason Starr's Panic Attack, part 2

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Will try to say something about this. I've been working almost all day (save for dropping at a thrift store earlier today) and I'm g...

Comixology on The Hunter

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Interim here's a link to Comixology's post about the new graphic novel adaptation of Richard Stark's The Hunter.
Thursday, July 30, 2009

Am trying to come up with something tomorrow

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Haven't had much chance to blog this week, but I'll be posting something tomorrow, either about Jason Starr's Panic Attack or s...
Saturday, July 25, 2009

My text on I.G. Edmonds

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I posted the entry for I.G. Edmonds from Pulpografia on one of my other blogs here . It's in Finnish, but if you're interested there...
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Friday, July 24, 2009

Friday's Forgotten Book: Floyd Smith's Action Girls

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I can't tell you much about this book, since I can't find any info about it or its writer on-line. It was published in the Finnish s...
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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Robert Bloch's Shooting Star

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Okay, this will be short and not very insightful. I read Robert Bloch's private eye novel Shooting Star (Ace 1958). It was reprinted by...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Back from vacation: short notice

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Just wanted to tell you that we are alive. Got back from out trip on Sunday and have been adjusting to normalcy for two days now. Will be bl...
Thursday, July 09, 2009

Vacation; a notice on a post elsewhere

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Starting my vacation tomorrow and heading off to a trip longer than a week, so won't be posting. Ottilia's with us for three weeks. ...
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I don't really know why I read this..

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..but I was entertained by the idea. Just a basic novelization fodder which wouldn't work if it were not for the movie. Arnold's cha...
Thursday, July 02, 2009

Tuuli Rannikko's take on Conrad Hirst

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During Kevin Wignall's visit to Finland the Kouvola Crime Fiction Festival we met the charming Finnish writer Tuuli Rannikko, who's ...