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
October 11, 2012 By
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
August 16, 2012 By
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 [...]
Old Book Store in Northampton, Massachusetts
July 31, 2012 By
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
July 31, 2012 By
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
July 19, 2012 By
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 [...]
Guest Post: Jeanette Baker
June 5, 2012 By
I would like to introduce you to Jeanette Baker. She is the award-winning author of fifteen novels, published by Pocket, Kensington and Mira Books, many of them set in the lush countryside of historical and contemporary Ireland where she lives and writes during the summer months. Today’s guest blog is about what its like to [...]
Moira Young: Blood Red Road
May 25, 2012 By
I like a great story of survival despite the odds, even when some of the details don’t actually seem to add up. Blood Red Road by Moira Young is one of these books. This book has been sitting on my book stack since last June – yep, that’s almost a whole year. I picked it [...]
