Current read

While I'm at it, it occurs to me to post about the book I am currently reading. Dust and Shadow (Lyndsay Faye; Simon and Schuster) pits Holmes against Jack the Ripper. I am about 100 pages into this pastiche and it's keeping my interest. The squalor of victorian London is well captured and the pace moves along briskly. Worth a look I feel if you enjoy the Sherlockian reprints from Titan Books.

upcoming goodness

Sadly the combo queen remains unconvinced of my need to be constantly buying books ay a rate at which I can't possibly read them. My TBR (to be read) pile causes enough consternation without her knowing about my TBD (to be delivered) books. How do I explain the steampunk thrills of George Mann's The Immorality Engine? Or the visceral terror to be induced by The Vampyricon Trilogy? It matters not that Cemetery Dance always deliver. And as for Campus Tramp by Lawrence Block? Best not to go there

First Post

Hi there. I am the Combo King, no really, and I will be using this blog to bring together my interests in golf, music, movies and books. So expect entries, thoughts, essays and ramblings on anything from the new M.I.A album to Chinatown to the most recent Sumptown comic to the latest Busted Flush Press Fiddler & Fiora reprints and everything cool inbetween. plus, of course, swing uploads and my ongoing attempts to break 80.
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