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I'm a librarian in Williamsburg, Virginia, where I specialize in readers' advisory and collection development. Lately, I've come to think of myself simply as a "bookman." It's a way of life.

I also write about books. My first book, Read On... Fantasy Fiction, came out in 2007, and my second, Fellowship in a Ring, a handbook for science fiction and fantasy book groups arrived in late 2009. I briefly had a monthly column, "Every Book Its Reader," for Booklist magazine.

I read a variety of fantasy and science fiction, nonfiction (especially history), historical fiction, mysteries, and literary fiction. I like theater, travel, movies, and puzzles in my spare time.
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Piper at the Gates of Dusk by Patrick Ness
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The Last Colony by John Scalzi
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John Perry and Jane Sagan are at it again, as they are recalled from their quiet life on Huckleberry to lead a new colony. But as usual, they are being manipulated by the higher-ups in the Colonial Union, who are using them as pawns in their battle t ...more
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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
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Graham Jones takes the historical concept of manifest destiny and reveals it for what it was for the native people: a horror story. The main narrative involves a diary found in a wall during archaeology that recounts the encoun
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1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin
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Sorkin is good at providing the details about some of the individuals who were key to the stock market and its failure in 1929, but ultimately I felt like that came at the cost of finding a point of view about what happened and w
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The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman
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This one reads like an overcomplicated RPG dungeon with a high concept plays, all structure in the setting of subway trains that only run certain directions and stop at certain stations doesn't really translate to a good gaming (or reading) experienc ...more
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The Sound of Mountain Water by Wallace Stegner
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I got to see Wallace Stegner read a couple of times at City Art, a Salt Lake City reading series where I tried to help the wonderful Sandy Anderson for about five years in the 1990s. I knew he was important, but I didn't know his work yet then. I wis ...more
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This Fierce People by Alan Pell Crawford
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The Revolutionary War history I had encountered in the past was always detailed in the events up north, and then there was some magical handwaving, and suddenly we were at Yorktown and the British were trapped, and Huzzah!

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The Daughters' War by Christopher Buehlman
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I'm four books into Buehlman's oeuvre now, two good horror novels and two strong dark epic fantasies, and they have all been five star reads. For this one, think if you had a book about Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride, but turn him into a young ...more
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Buckeye by Patrick Ryan
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This one started off really well, capturing a time and place in about as middle America as you can get (Ohio). It features Cal Jenkins, an affable young man shut out of WWII by one leg that is shorter than the other, who is trying to overcome being s ...more
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Tori Hey Neil! Maine is great. Quiet and uneventful enough to force me to focus. Not so quiet that I'm turning into a Stephen King character, although I've seen enough odd things to know where he gets the ideas for his stories.

I'm wanting to be performing again too. Keeping my eyes open for things to do this year. Let me know how you like Bedroom Farce. Is it in at the library yet and available to the public?


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