Nov 17
Nov 17, 2016
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Disclaimer: I received a free copy of Sinner Man for review purposes. If you’re a long time reader of The Soap Boxers, you’ve probably read others articles I’ve written about Lawrence Block. If not, you can find them all here. Block is my favorite author. He’s been writing professionally since the 1950s, and as a result has […]
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Sep 30
Sep 30, 2016
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Disclaimer: I received a free copy of Quarry in the Black for review purposes. Quarry in the Black is the 13th in the series by Max Allan Collins. I hadn’t read the previous twelve books in the series, so I was jumping in blind. There’s always a danger in doing that, as there can sometimes […]
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Jun 13
Jun 13, 2016
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Disclaimer: I received a free copy of Daniel Godfrey’s New Pompeii for review purposes. A quick glance at the book’s synopsis had me hooked. A company has found a way to bring people from the past forward through time and land them in the present day. Their biggest challenge so far was to rescue the population […]
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May 26
May 26, 2016
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I recently decided to buy a tablet. I’ve thought about it in the past, but recently received a financial award at work and decided to spend a (small) chunk of it on myself and save the rest. We do already have some tablets in the house: A Kindle Fire 1st generation – Fewer and fewer […]
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Apr 29
Apr 29, 2016
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Things have been very quiet around here lately, mostly because work had been consuming my life for the year or so. The good news is that my work hours have now dropped off significantly (to 40ish, down from 65 or 70 recently). That should give me quite a bit more time to write. I’m probably […]
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Aug 12
Aug 12, 2014
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Late late year I (along with several others) was contacted by the publicist for my favorite author, Lawrence Block. Would I like to receive an Advance Review Copy of his forthcoming book. Absolutely! I’d read the book and then write a review soon after. Life got in the way, as it tends to do. Winter […]
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May 19
May 19, 2014
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Keith Law is a baseball writer for ESPN who focuses primarily on prospects (players not yet in the Major Leagues). He’s also a bit of an anti-Jenny McCarthy, never missing a chance to point out studies that show no link between childhood vaccines and autism. Reading the responses to his tweets is often, um, educational. […]
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