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Showing posts with label topic: cincinnati. Show all posts
Showing posts with label topic: cincinnati. Show all posts
22 July 2024

The Wizards on Walnut Street by Sam Swicegood

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The Wizards on Walnut Street by Sam Swicegood This is a fantasy novel set in Cincinnati, which I read as part of my project to read books s...
11 December 2023

The Making of the Cities: Cincinnati by Lee Davis Willoughby

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Americana: The Making of the Cities: Cincinnati by Lee Davis Willoughby The Making of America was a series of novels published from (accord...
31 July 2023

Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga

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Originally published: 2019 Acquired: December 2022 Read: April 2023 Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga I read this ...
12 June 2020

Review: Stringtown on the Pike by John Uri Lloyd

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Hardcover, 414 pages Published 1900 Acquired July 2019 Read November 2019 Stringtown On the Pike : A Tale of Northernmost Kentucky by...
24 June 2019

Review: Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld

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Hardcover, 492 pages Published 2016 Acquired December 2016 Read June 2019 Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld This is a re-telling of Prid...
24 September 2018

Review: Double Dutch by Sharon M. Draper

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I have two new reviews of Doctor Who audio dramas up at Unreality SF : the fifth Doctor and UNIT in The Helliax Rift and the sixth Doctor ...
10 September 2018

Review: 42 Miles by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer and Elaine Clayton

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If there's anything I like about Big Finish, other than Charley Pollard, it's that I'll occasionally pick up an adaptation of a ...
11 June 2018

Review: The Serpentine Wall by Jim DeBrosse

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Hardcover, 327 pages Published 1988 Acquired December 2016 Read June 2017 The Serpentine Wall by Jim DeBrosse My ongoing missio...
13 November 2017

Review: Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler

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Trade paperback, 325 pages Published 2014 (originally 2013 ) Acquired December 2014 Read November 2016 Calling Me Home by Julie Kibl...
14 April 2017

My Radioactive Childhood

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  Something recently reminded me of the fact that I grew up a nine-minute drive (fewer than three miles as the crow flies) from a nuclea...
30 December 2016

Christmas Special

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Merry Christmas to all of you out in blogland. I've been on a whirlwind trip to see my/my wife's family-- one day of travel, two ful...
24 June 2016

How Now Pink Cow?: The Origins of Red Cream Soda

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One of the things you learn when you move to a different region of the country is that many things you took for granted as being part of The...
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17 June 2016

Alert New London!: The Lost Names of the Backroads of Rural Ohio

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I recently had cause to be driving around the backroads of Butler and Hamilton Counties, Ohio, right on the Indiana border, in this area: ...
11 January 2016

Review: Queen City Jazz by Kathleen Ann Goonan

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My most recent audio drama review is up at USF, on a "Big Finish Classics" adaptation of a book very near and dear to my heart: Th...
17 September 2015

Review: William Wells and Maconaquah, White Rose of the Miamis by Julia Gilman

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Trade paperback, 317 pages Published 1985 Acquired December 2012 Read May 2015 William Wells and Maconaquah , White Rose of the Mi...
11 September 2015

(Cheese) Coney (Islands)

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the cheese coney in its natural habitat A couple months ago, I used the phrase "cheese coney" to the consternation of those aro...
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28 March 2012

A Republican I Can Support (Though Maybe Not-- He's Pretty Big)

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Trade paperback,  249 pages Published  2012 Acquired February 2012 Read  March 20 12 Taft 2012 by Jason Heller As a Cincinnati...