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This is another test.

This was also a pretty good book:

Don't mind me: experimenting with the Amazon Associate thing.

Just the link: Looking for Darla

Link and image:

Just the image:

Looks like a fun book, btw. Cthulhu Noir.

George MacDonald Fraser, 1925-2008

Via Ken Hite I have learned that Mr. Fraser passed away yesterday. I first discovered GMF's work in college: one of my history professors had mentioned the Flashman series in class, and once I read the first one I was hooked. I later branched out to his MacAuslan series and his nonfiction, but Flashman was always my favorite (although The Pyrates very close). I've been dreading this moment for some time, although I had not realized that he was ill: there was so much still unwritten of the Flashman series alone. Too much, it seems, for one man's lifetime.

I never met him, but I will miss him nonetheless.

Max Brooks' World War Z

My review of World War Z may be found here.

Terry Pratchett's Making Money

My review of Terry Pratchett's Making Money may be found here.

Very sad news about Terry Pratchett.

He has been diagnosed as having a "very rare form of early onset Alzheimer's". Details here, and his full statement here. While he notes (bravely):

PS I would just like to draw attention to everyone reading the above that this should be interpreted as 'I am not dead'. I will, of course, be dead at some future point, as will everybody else. For me, this maybe further off than you think - it's too soon to tell. I know it's a very human thing to say "Is there anything I can do", but in this case I would only entertain offers from very high-end experts in brain chemistry.

...I imagine that buying his latest book Making Money couldn't hurt. Prayers, too, humanist or not.

The Sky People Review

My review of The Sky People, prequel to SM Stirling's In the Courts of the Crimson Kings, may be found here.

I am doing book reviews, now.

Over at a site called Collected Miscellany. My first one is up, for Harry Turtledove's Opening Atlantis, and may be found here.

Check it out.

Also, I need a book recommendation.

A good general work on Voudonista / Santiera practices.  I presume that GURPS Voodoo: The Shadow War has a bibliography: if one of all y'all have gone through it already and determined which books were worth reading, that'd be useful as well.

Recommendations of the books

The Manolo, he has made suggestions for the books of the gift; I can endorse the Calvin & Hobbes and the Lileks and will take the rest on faith.  If you want more suggestions, I recommend Guy Gavriel Kay, Louis de Bernieres and Terry Pratchett to start.  No, not for me!  I've got those books already. 

No, just send me money, or maybe a Second Edition for In Nomine...