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The Coldest City for an Atomic Blonde

Posted on July 22, 2018 by Brian Bixby

My partner is a cartoonist. So we take a particular interest in movies that are based on comics. For example, no sooner did we see The Death of Stalin, then she was on the phone to France, asking a friend to … Continue reading →

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The arrival of summer

Posted on June 29, 2018 by Brian Bixby

People argue about when summer begins. Is it when school lets out? Memorial Day? The summer solstice? The Fourth of July? No doubt in other parts of the world (especially in the southern hemisphere!), other dates are considered as well. … Continue reading →

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Six books I have read so often that they are falling apart

Posted on March 13, 2018 by Brian Bixby

I have a lot of books. I read a lot of books. And yet some books I keep coming back to, time after time, until their bindings crack and they are candidates for replacement, or, oddly enough, the recycle bin. … Continue reading →

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And we come to an end of riding the lightning bolt

Posted on March 2, 2018 by Brian Bixby

Daphne’s no longer going to be forced into an arranged marriage with some pathetic demigod. Her sister Agatha isn’t going to be forced to divorce her husband and marry her father. All’s right with the world, eh? Well, there is … Continue reading →

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In memoriam: Robin St. John Conover (1944 – 2008)

Posted on January 2, 2018 by Brian Bixby

It’s her birthday today, so I thought I would say a few words about my first Internet friend, Robin St. John Conover. We met in an online Brontë forum. I was the amateur, just reading my way through all the … Continue reading →

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In memoriam – ICB

Posted on July 24, 2017 by Brian Bixby

Last Friday, my mother, Isabella (Kyle) Campbell Bixby, passed away at age 92. She had been in an assisted living situation for almost two years, after a fall that injured her back and required her to use a walker, which … Continue reading →

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Death of a hat

Posted on October 2, 2016 by Brian Bixby

Besides visiting a fellow blogger, my partner E.J. and I spent several days last month in Normandy. Neither of us had been there before. Friends of ours own a pre-Revolutionary farmhouse that has come down through their family. Considering that … Continue reading →

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Reaching out to a fellow blogger

Posted on September 24, 2016 by Brian Bixby

Who’s that blogger you follow, or that comments on your blog? Is it a real person, or just someone trying to sell you something? And would you ever want to meet the real person behind that blog in person? For the … Continue reading →

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Women as werewolves: reviewing Ginger Snaps and When Animals Dream

Posted on April 3, 2016 by Brian Bixby

Horror creatures began as men. Varney the Vampyre and Dracula, Universal’s werewolf, even the original mummy monster, they were all guys. “Ah,” but I hear you say, “what about J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla?” Thank you for making my point. … Continue reading →

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Harry hits the road in chapter 14 of Magician’s Misfortune

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Brian Bixby

“It’s my way and the highway,” Persephone Désirée Arabia Nightfeather Sanderson tells Harry Eberhardt after deciding not to kill him. Seffie gets pissed off at men turning up in her bed uninvited, especially when they don’t even come in through the … Continue reading →

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