Meyer Levin’s The Old Bunch has been sitting on a shelf ogling me for a few years. Really gotta do something about that soon.

Thank you so much! I should protest more often.

No map, no peace!
No map, no peace!

Ooh! Have you ever shared it publicly?

I don’t think I’ve heard a thing they’ve recorded since American Music.

You’re welcome, Will! Looking forward to the day the series gets a big folio treatment full of maps.

THE LAST BLADE PRIEST by W.P. WILES

W. P. Wiles’s (@willwiles.bsky.social) THE LAST BLADE PRIEST has hallmarks of epic fantasy: quests, politics, gods, prophecies, unlikely fellowships, high-stakes conflicts, and fantastical creatures. Yet Wiles defies expectations at every turn. Just a wonderful novel. Highly recommended.

I never made it there. I am jealous!

Lots of great recs in this thread. Historical crime novels seem to do this often. I scanned my reading list and noticed Nicole Mones’s Night in Shanghai, Caleb Carr’s The Alienist, Hammett by Joe Gores, The Great Eastern by Howard Rodman, and The List of 7 by Mark Frost.

I love the Wheaton location but don’t make it there as often.

That’s one of my favorite parts of travel. In fact, I have a work trip to Las Vegas this week, and I have already mapped out the used book stores to hit in my little downtime.

My favorite as well. The nearby FOMCL shop often produces gems as well.

Can you spill the beans—which book store?

We are all big readers in this family.

I read two of Davidson other novels that did not work as well for me. The Rose of Tibet was OK, but A Long Say to Shiloh (aka Menorah Men) bored me. Yet I still look for his work every time I’m in a used bookstore.

I can vouch for the Mead among the remainder. And I second Kolymsky Heights.

I spent all day doing yard work before grocery shopping. Now, I have about 20 minutes of “me time” before making dinner.

This is why I follow you: the sheer bravery

Thank you!

My kingdom for a shoe rack that doesn’t avalanche every time we breathe near it.

I’ve not thought of cormorants the same way since reading Stephen Gregory’s THE CORMORANT a few years ago.

The dedication at the beginning of The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas: TO THE WORM THAT FIRST GNAWED AT THE COLD FLESH OF MY CADAVER I DEDICATE AS A FOND REMEMBRANCE THESE POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis knew how to start a novel.

It's also just kind of a boring list. Sure, it has some great movies, but it's more fun to argue with lists when the writer has taken some big swings. Add DARKMAN, THE PHANTOM, or MYSTERY MEN, and now you've got a list worth engaging with.

A family friend, who sadly passed away last week, played ball with him when he lived in the Helena area. I believe the team was the East Helena Smelterites.

Answered my own question! www.setlist.fm/setlist/jeff...

SORRY! Charley Pride.

What did they cover in Great Falls? I'm blanking on Great Falls bands...unless it was someone like Charley Rich, who got his start there while in the Air Force.

Prairie School Freakout and Beet tend to get more love, but Lived to Tell has always been my favorite of Eleventh Dream Day's work from that era. I'd like to live inside its guitar tones someday.

Although it would have been better had he covered Steel Pole Bathtub in Bozeman and Big Black in Missoula…

My hometown! Wish I’d been there to see that one.

I’m sorry to hear that. We only corresponded a couple times, but he seems like a good guy. And the Nightwalker was a one-of-kind werewolf novel.