Portfolio Tag: Supernatural

Halloween Book Bingo 2022
Blackout: Oct. 28, 2022 Reading Blackout: September 30, 2022. The Books Amateur Sleuth: Ianthe Jerrold: Let Him Lie – finished Sept. 6, 2022. Murder & Mayhem by the Book: Terry Pratchett: Mrs Bradshaw’s Handbook – finished August 29, 2022. Cozy Mystery: Miranda James: Murder Past Due – finished Sept. 22, 2022. Spellbound: Terry Pratchett: The […]
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Halloween Book Bingo 2021
My Card and Game Progress The Books Amateur Sleuth: E.C. Bentley & H. Warner Allen: Trent’s Own Case – finished Sept. 18. Relics & Curiosities: Barbara Hambly: Graveyard Dust – finished Sept. 15. Halloween: Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – finished Sept. 18. Mad Scientists and Evil Geniuses: Barbara Vine: The Blood […]
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Narrativium: Where the Falling Angel Meets the Rising Ape
The Discworld Novels (and Subseries) The Colour of Magic (1983) – Rincewind #1 ♦ Review HERE The Light Fantastic (1986) – Rincewind #2 ♦ Review HERE Equal Rites (1987) – Witches #1 ♦ Review HERE Mort (1987) – Death #1 ♦ Review HERE Sourcery (1988) – Rincewind #3 ♦ Review HERE Wyrd Sisters (1988) – Witches […]
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Halloween Book Bingo 2020
My Blacked-out Card: The Books: Sleepy Hollow: Alice Hoffman: The River King – finished Sept. 26, 2020. Film at 11: Ellis Peters: The Devil’s Novice – finished Sept. 24, 2020. Southern Gothic: Sharyn McCrumb: The Ballad of Tom Dooley – finished Sept. 19, 2020. Murder Most Foul: Michael Connelly: The Night Fire – […]
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Halloween Book Bingo 2019
THE BOOKS: OFFICIAL CARD International Woman of Mystery: Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments – finished September 29, 2019. Locked Room Mystery: Clayton Rawson: Death from a Top Hat – finished September 23, 2019. Murder Most Foul: Michael Gilbert: Smallbone Deceased – finished September 13, 2019. Psych: Sofi Oksanen: Fegefeuer (The Purge) – finished September […]
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The BookLikes Crowdsourced Reading Lists
The Complete Lists Crowdsourced! A Badass Booklikes Booklist: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qYl32e0L3R3X_82XldWaCOt2naBFtvoJsaQY8zzUU3E/edit#gid=0 Historical Fiction Essential Reading: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PqlPzGtuuiuoy8z04LNVl-QWJpe2M0ihTV_xkMSTMBM/edit#gid=0 Essential History Reading List: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Wvymq7mUjdIllr0a2eNoN6XXwIhu6UvpUAsRUNFtObQ/edit#gid=0 Own Contributions General / Main List Books With a Difference Crowdsourced: More Books With a Difference — Fiction Crowdsourced BookList: A Shorthand Quickie Towards the 1001 (Part 1: General Fiction & Nonfiction) Crowdsourced BookList: […]
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Halloween Book Bingo 2018
The Books: Country House Mystery: Georgette Heyer: Penhallow (Ulli Birvé audio) Cryptozoologist: Patricia A. McKillip: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (Dina Pearlman audio) Romantic Suspense: Susanna Kearsley: A Desperate Fortune (Katherine Kellgren audio) Terrifying Women: Mary Roberts Rinehart: Locked Doors (Anne Hancock audio) Terror in a Small Town: Joy Ellis: Their Lost Daughters (Richard Armitage audio) A Grimm Tale: Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber (Emilia Fox / Richard Armitage audio) Genre: Horror: Michael McDowell: Gilded […]
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Halloween Book Bingo 2017
The Books Cozy Mystery: Donna Andrews: Lord of the Wings Gothic: Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights Romantic Suspense: C.S. Forester: The African Queen Amateur Sleuth: Simon Brett: An Amateur Corpse Diverse Voices: James D. Doss: Grandmother Spider Vampires: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla Locked Room Mystery: Martin Edwards’s (ed.) & Various Authors: Miraculous Mysteries: Locked-Room Murders and Impossible Crimes Terror in a Small Town: Agatha Christie: Mrs. McGinty’s Dead Murder Most Foul: Various […]
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Halloween Book Bingo 2016
The Books: Read by Candlelight or Flashlight – E.T.A. Hoffmann: Das Fräulein von Scuderi (Mademoiselle de Scuderi) => Bingos No. 1, No. 5, No. 6 & No. 12 Magical Realism – Isabel Allende: La casa de los espíritus (The House of the Spirits) => Bingos No. 6 & No. 11 Witches – Terry Pratchett / […]
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On Page and Screen
Bringing together great literature and its equally great screen adaptations. Note: Authors are included here if I own a screen adaptation of at least one of their works and have either reviewed / blogged about that screen adaptation or about any one of the author’s literary works. At the same time, however, for each of […]
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221B Baker Street
The World of London’s Only Consulting Detective Arthur Conan Doyle Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links (Auto-) Biographies and Nonfiction about Arthur Conan Doyle: Hesketh Pearson: Conan Doyle: His Life and Art (1943) Daniel Stashower: Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle (1999) (Ed.): Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters […]
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