#books

See tagged statuses in the local Rambling Readers community

3/3: MC POV: You get to spend a fun night out with anyone. Who do you choose and where do you go?
Jerya: I’d spend it with my husband, and we’d do exactly what we did on the day/night we met, taking turns with a telescope looking at stars and my favourite, nebulae. We never seem to have time normally…
What I’d really like is to do this at Kendrigg, as I hear the Dawnsingers have a wonderful new ‘scope, but we’d have to disguise him as a woman…

This week I've been mainly reading, no. 214.

Nicola Griffith's novel of corporate control of intellectual property & the owners' family intrigues is sort of sci-fi, but really Slow River (1995/2012) is a business thriller (both legitimate & illegitimate businesses). Its a well written & intriguing read, which has a number of reveals that work well. To the extent is steps between genres its difficult to place, but very much worth reading.

@bookstodon

If you'd like to read more work by yours truly (haiku, poems, short stories), you can purchase e-books by @abpositiveart with a 25% discount until 8 March. Look for The Auroras & Blossoms...:

*...PoArtMo Anthology: Volume 4 (now $ 6,74) and Volume 5 (now $ 7,49)

*...Haiku Anthology: Volume 1 (now $ 2,99)

*...Magazine: Issue 1 (now $ 1,49)

https://www.smashwords.com/books/search/?wc=any&query=Auroras+%26+Blossoms&lang=

@poetry

@haiku

@bookstodon

@writingcommunity

in 1754.

Riot at Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin. Thomas Sheridan, the manager, resigns, and leaves Ireland on September 15 for London where his wife Frances Sheridan meets Samuel Richardson.

Thomas Sheridan was the manager at the time and had recently banned the presence of audience members on stage and the taking of money for the privilege of going backstage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smock_Alley_Theatre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sheridan_(actor)

Thomas Sheridan at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39471

The siege is over but the war goes on. ‘The Eye of Horus’ is an atmospheric World War Two thriller with settings that move from the Highlands of Scotland via Gibraltar to Malta.

Parts of Mgarr on the island of Gozo would be recognisable to the two central characters in the book who visit it as the story builds towards its conclusion. Much of what can be seen in this modern photograph is obviously more recent.

Find out more on our website:
https://www.arachnid.scot/book-eoh/index.html

This modern image shows a view over the harbour at Mgarr on the island of Gozo. There’s part of a roundabout at the foot of the frame with the water of the harbour beyond it, partly occupied by small boats moored at lines of pontoons. Mgarr itself is built on slopes that wrap around the far side of the harbour and has a range of building styles, from a church in the central skyline to modern apartments being built on the right. The sky is blue. The front cover of ‘The Eye of Horus’ is shown in the bottom right corner.