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Benjamin Chandler is a writer and illustrator who never lost his childhood love for all things prehistoric. His paleofiction blog, Antediluvian Echoes, has been been cited in "The Atlantic Monthly." "Lasturia" is his first novel. He enjoys cooking, bird-watching, and listening to podcasts. He does not enjoy doing the dishes. ...more

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Dian of the Lost Land

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Of Gods and Globes III: Tri...

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Gargantua

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Lasturia

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The Way You Call into the M...

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The Topaz Crown

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Marked for Murder
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Stairway to an Empty Room / Terror Lurks in Darkness by Dolores Hitchens
"11/2022

Stairway to an Empty Room
1951
I read this before and loved it. This time I found it too long. Apparently I didn't when I read the old smelling 1951 hardcover.

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Marked for Murder by Ross Macdonald
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The Sleuth Patrol by Manly Wade Wellman
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A bunch of boy scouts who want to be detectives when they grow up uncover a couple of criminals hiding out in a "haunted house". Some good thrills and solid writing by Wellman, but sometimes I felt like the kids spoke unrealistically. Very quippy, bu ...more
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Go Home, Stranger by Charles    Williams
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This was really good.

Reno's sister is in jail, awaiting trial for murdering her husband, who also happened to be Reno's best friend. Reno knows she's innocent, but the evidence seems to point otherwise. Reno takes it upon himself to find out the tru
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Case of the Laughing Virgin by Jonathan Craig
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What if the guys from Dragnet were snarky?

Breezy, but dripping with procedure. Two cops, Selby and Rayder, are sent to get a naked young lady off of the edge of an apartment building's roof. When they take her back to her room, they find her boyfrie
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Cobean's naked eye by Samuel E Cobean
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Gulliver of Mars by Edwin Lester Arnold
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I couldn't tell if this was a really weak adventure or a really weak satire. Pity, because Arnold's prose is really quite nice. ...more
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Groucho Marx
“Who says Television isn't educational, as soon as the T.V. comes on I read a book.”
Groucho Marx

Shel Silverstein
“Ma and God

God gave us fingers--Ma says, "Use your fork."
God gave us voices--Ma says, "Don't scream."
Ma says eat broccoli, cereal and carrots.
But God gave us tasteys for maple ice cream.

God gave us fingers--Ma says, "Use your hanky."
God gave us puddles--Ma says, "Don't splash."
Ma says, "Be quiet, your father is sleeping."
But God gave us garbage can covers to crash.

God gave us fingers--Ma says, "Put your gloves on."
God gave us raindrops--Ma says, "Don't get wet."
Ma says be careful, and don't get too near to
Thoses strange lovely dogs that God gave us to pet.

God gave us fingers--Ma says, "Go wash 'em."
But God gave us coal bins and nice dirty bodies.
And I ain't too smart, but there's one thing for certain--
Either Ma's wrong or else God is.”
Shel Silverstein

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