Reviews
Antonio Garrido: The Corpse Reader
The Corpse Reader is a fictionalized account based on the man known as “the founding father of forensic science”. Song Ci lived during the medieval period in China and wrote the “Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified“, which has been ultimately translated into English and many other languages. Typically, I figure a book is a good [...]
A Year of Reading Dangerously
It has been a really busy few months (okay…a really busy year) and I’ve sort of let Old Musty books and the book review portion of the show suffer a bit. To try to compensate I’m going to catch you up with some of my best reading during this time. Most of my reading, as [...]
Jeremy Bates: White Lies
Today’s Daily Deal on Amazon for the Kindle is White Lies by Jeremy Bates. For today only, August 16th, 2012, the Kindle price of this book is $1.99. I had the opportunity to read for review White Lies and though I found it predictable and unrealistic, it wasn’t a bad read. The biggest thought-provoking idea [...]
Editorials
A Year of Reading Dangerously
It has been a really busy few months (okay…a really busy year) and I’ve sort of let Old Musty books and the book review portion of the show suffer a bit. To try to compensate I’m going to catch you up with some of my best reading during this time. Most of my reading, as [...]
Old Book Store in Northampton, Massachusetts
At the beginning of July, I had the pleasure of browsing through the books at Old Book Store in Northampton, MA. The place is awesome and had an amazing selection of books! The bookstore is a room with bookshelves used to partition the many areas at the bottom of a really old looking red-brick building. [...]
Book Stores Located in London
I have wondered a couple times since last Friday what it would be like to be at the Olympics in London this year. Each time I consider all the events I’d like to see, I wonder how many book stores I could get in during the duration of the Olympics… you know, like my own [...]
Guest Post: Giacomo Giammatteo
Today’s guest post is by Giacomo Giammatteo. He is the author of the new release Murder Takes Time. Follow the link at the bottom to Pump Up Your Book for a chance to win an IPad or a Kindle Fire. Without further ado… Selecting the Right Agent If you are a writer, and assuming you’ve [...]
Think About It
The Quiet Place
This is an atypical post for Old Musty Books, but I thought it was worthy of sharing. My young friend shared it with me, because he thought I’d find value in it. I did…and I was most impressed he did, as well. Please follow the link below. Make sure you volume is on, and do [...]
Invictus – A Poem
Last night, I watched the movie Invictus – what a great inspirational movie. This morning I woke up wondering about the poem that Mandela shared with Francois Pienaar in the movie. It was difficult to hear some of the words of the poem, as they were recited over much background noise. Did it exist or [...]
What Matters is Not Wealth – but How Well We Have Loved
Normally, I don’t use a politician in the “think about it” category, mostly because one never knows what to expect the reaction will be. However, there were some things President Obama said last night at the Together We Thrive memorial in Arizona that I think bear thinking about – not as a Democrat or a [...]
Google’s New Database for Geeks like Me
The New York Times today has an article about the Google release of a new book database. The digital storehouse, which comprises words and short phrases as well as a year-by-year count of how often they appear, represents the first time a data set of this magnitude and searching tools are at the disposal of [...]
