Month: May 2019
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Back in the Saddle (Memorial Day Edition)
Excuse the radio silence here for the last month. A lot has been going on in my life — maybe at some point I’ll go into detail, but not now. Generally though, my time sucks are behind me, so I’ll be back to blogging and other literary things. Stay tuned!
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Minor Sketches & Reveries by Alberto Balengo (Stories)
Title: Minor Sketches and Reveries (Stories) by Alberto Balengo. Amazon pre-release page: Smashwords Pre-Order page. These introspective tales feature animals, allegories and melodramas of everyday life. At the center of the stories are tiny creatures (a sparrow, earthworm or paperclip) struggling to make sense of larger mysterious forces. Human protagonists are equally perplexed by ordinary…
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Dear GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS (RANT!)
A few years ago I started using Google Play Books (GPB) as my primary epub reader. I did so after learning that GPB supported epub very well and had an incredibly simple drag-and-drop upload feature. I quickly uploaded 100s of public domain and self-created and Smashwords titles to it. GPB was cross-platform and cloud-based. Horray!…
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Robert’s Raves & Reviews #2 (Books & Ebooks)
View all Raves & Reviews || View the Roundup series View Previous Raves & Review and Next Raves & Reviews I’m really behind, so I’m just going to hit PUBLISH and move on. I’ve been reading a tremendous amount recently: Jack Matthews‘ Picture of the Journal Back, Bill McKibben‘s Falter and Alissa Quart‘s Squeezed (author…
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Robert’s Roundup #10 (May 2019) of Ebooks
View Previous Roundup and Next Roundup Preface Ok, apparently there’s another Kindle Unlimited 2 month trial offer. From now on Kindle titles won’t receive hyperlinks, but I’ll include links to author website. But “KU” will indicate Kindle Unlimited ebook. Sorry to whine, but one reason this column is so late (among many!) is that I have…
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Ok, the journey back..
I’ve been busy with various things over the weeks. Last week I attended the destination wedding of my sister Maureen in Cabo San Lucas in Mexico. Fun, but exhausting! It’s always a challenge trying to decide the reading material to bring on the trip. Eventually I settled on an early novel by Jack Matthews which…