"Bronze Link" by Michael Coghlan is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Here's a look at some fun stuff I've been reading outside of books lately. If you've got some articles or websites to recommend, please drop them in the comments below. There's no such thing as too much of a good thing! 2021 Pulitzer Prizes:…
Birth and death in the midst of a pandemic
in 1918 Dublin, a young nurse works desperately to save her influenza-wracked maternity patients while trying to find some sliver of hope in the midst of so much illness and death.
Could this be enough? Kieran wondered. If this was all that was possible? If Brian didn't remember what he thought Kieran had done, didn't remember those black days when they lost Finn? If what had happened was gone forever, was that the same as forgiveness? Kieran wasn't sure, but he thought about it, as they…
Tragedy haunts a small Tasmanian town
Kieran and Mia have brought baby daughter Audrey back to their small Tasmanian hometown for the first time after years of living in Sydney, but it’s hardly a joyous homecoming. Kieran’s father Brian is suffering from dementia and the couple is back to help Verity, Kieran’s mom, pack up the house and find a nursing…
A mystery within a mystery in ‘The Postscript Murders’
I didn’t know, back in 2019 when I read The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths, that it was meant to be the first book in a new series. I was already a big fan of Griffiths’ series featuring forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway, but I didn’t jibe with her other series featuring Max Mephisto, a magician…
Woman’s intuition? I’m afraid I can’t compete. I don’t know the exact figures for the current year, but speaking generally, there are about two million more women than men in the country. Terrifying to reflect that they are all at it day in, day out, exercising this formidable gift!”Poison in the Pen
‘Poison in the Pen’ leads to murder in the village
Regular readers of the Miss Silver mystery series by Patricia Wentworth know that she finds the cases she ultimately solves in a variety of ways. Occasionally they just pop up wherever she happens to be and she is drawn in. Sometimes a stranger in a train carriage turns into a client in need of her…
These compelling profiles transcend sports
I started thinking seriously about journalism as a career in eighth grade. Specifically sportswriting, thanks to a discounted subscription to Sports Illustrated courtesy of the Publisher’s Clearinghouse Sweepstakes. I always read it from cover to cover, even the articles about sports I didn’t care about or people I didn’t know. That was how I learned…
Here's the thing about baseball, and all else: everything changes. Whether it's the slow creep of glaciers dripping toward the sea, or the steady piling up of cut stones, rock upon rock until the wall reaches chest high. nothing is still. Sometimes change comes as quick and catastrophic as a line drive — hear the…
A lot of hits and few errors in ‘The Cactus League’
Spring training is a time of hope and renewal in baseball, when fans of even the most inept teams allow themselves to dream that this might, at long last, be The Year. It’s no less so for the players themselves, and the other people whose lives revolve in and around the game. Emily Nemens’ The…
