Category: Books
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The Bacteriologist
“…when you come down to brass tacks a bacteriologist is no great shakes.” As a bacteriologist, I’m offended. But perhaps Somerset Maugham—who studied medicine at St. Thomas Hospital in London, and certainly would have got a mouthful of bacteriology while he was there—suffered some slight about his professional background at the hands of an officious…
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Books in Boston
In town for the annual Boston Book Festival in Copley Square. Lots of tents and tables between Trinity Church and the Boston Public Library (BPL).
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Call me slow in getting here.
I started my own little literary tour of New England authors at the end of 2022. My last visit and blog entry about this tour was in July 2023. Finally, yesterday, I was able to add a new site to the tour. This one: Arrowhead. Herman Melville’s home in Pittsfield, Massachusetts where he penned Moby Dick and never…
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In the Library
One’s missing. I guess The Fever Hut was checked out.
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One More Platform
Back in February, I wrote a little blog post wondering how many websites/platforms an author needed today. The answer was, “Apparently, a lot.” So many that I forgot one. BookBub. Here it is. So now I have… eleven sites?
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Reading
Catching up on my Iceland Writers Retreat reading. Rick Jervis, USA Today reporter. Eliza Reid, former First Lady of Iceland.