Friday, March 20, 2009

THE SUMMING UP, Friday, March 20, 2009


Amy Winehouse reading.








For a complete list of the books, see here.



Paul Bishop, Harvard Lampoon's J*ames B*ond Alligator, I*n Fl*m*ng
Paul Brazill, Suckers, Anne Bilson
Michael Carlson, Joe Gores' Interface
Craig Clarke, Walk in Shadows, Nicholas Kaufmann
Cathy Coles, Art History Mystery Series, Iain Pears
Bill Crider, The Way to Dusty Death, Alistair MacLean
Martin Edwards, Sunspot, Desmond Lowden
Elizabeth Foxwell, Philip Bennion's Death, Richard Marsh
Cullen Gallagher, Murder Plus, Marc Gerald
Ed Gorman, Go Home, Stranger, Charlie Williams
Lesa Holstine, The Old Man in the Corner, Baroness Orczy
George Kelley, Kiss for Killer, (Honey West) G.G. Fickling
Randy Johnson, The Gift Horse, Frank Gruber
Todd Mason, The Horror Hall of Fame, edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin Harry Greenberg
Kris Neri, The Tightrope Walker, Dorothy Gilman
Charlie Newton, God's Pocket, Pete Dexter
Scott D. Parker, First Evidence, Ken Goddard
Eric Peters, Horror Show, Greg Kihn
James Reasoner, Strictly for Cash, James Hadley Chase
Kerrie Smith, Memento Mori, Muriel Spark

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Uh, Patti, I don't think Amy Winehouse is actually reading. Actually, the only literary association that comes to mind is Doris Lessing's The Cleft. Hmm, wonder why?

Gary Dobbs/Jack Martin said...

I certainly like Amy's music but she does look a mess. She's a troubled woman but a very good artist.

Todd Mason said...

Bish has it slightly off...that's THE HARVARD LAMPOON's ALLIGATOR...the NATIONAL LAMPOON wouldn't be founded till the 1970s, admittedly by HARVARD LAMPOON folks.

Cullen Gallagher said...

A day late (but only by 35 minutes!) - I tried to finish it earlier, but sometimes life just won't comply. Anyway, just thought I would share this collection of True Crime I found at a bookstore, which included pieces by some of my favs - Craig Rice, Jim Thompson, Day Keene, Harry Whittington, to name just a few.

http://pulpserenade.blogspot.com/2009/03/murder-plus-by-marc-gerald-pharos-books.html

Unknown said...

I'm not convinced that Amy's much of a reader. A singer, okay. A reader? Not so much.

pattinase (abbott) said...

I'm not so sure, Bill. She seems to be willing to crawl to get to the book.

debra said...

Maybe she's on her way to reading. By, uh, stretching first.

Anonymous said...

Muriel Spark, that is...though such a protean talent can seem plural.

I remember picking up a cheap copy of MURDER PLUS, mostly for the Robert Bloch essay on Gein and PSYCHO...

Anonymous said...

Amy Winehouse might've thought the books were smokable, particularly the ones across the table from where she had been...or perhaps she heard yet another potential drowning victim just offshore there...