Category Archives: Reading Report

Travelling Reading Report, May/June 2024 from Jeff Baker.

Posted on June 21, 2024 by jeffbaker307

Reading Report May/June, 2024 from Jeff Baker For Arthur Conan Doyle’s May 22nd birthday, I head his “The Mystery Of Sasassa Valley.” One of Doyle’s first published stories (from 1879!) and still fun! Also read Doyle’s Brigadier Gerard story “How … Continue reading →

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Reading Report For April/May 2024, From Jeff Baker. (May 20th, 2024)

Posted on May 21, 2024 by jeffbaker307

Reading Report April/May 2024 I actually think I did more reading than writing this time around! Started reading some of the stories in the Crippen and Landru collection of Frances and Richard Lockridge’s “Flair For Murder.” It includes all of … Continue reading →

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The Poe Project: A Reading Report Addenda From Jeff Baker (April 25, 2024)

Posted on April 25, 2024 by jeffbaker307

The Poe Project A Reading Report Addenda, by Jeff Baker April 25th, 2024. Finally got back to reading some Edgar Allan Poe, focusing on reading some stories beyond the often-anthologized, constantly-adapted favorites on a list I made. I intend to … Continue reading →

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Reading Report; April 20th, 2024, from Jeff Baker.

Posted on April 20, 2024 by jeffbaker307

Reading Report: March/April 2024 from Jeff Baker Okay, I didn’t read Poe this time around! Didn’t read a lot of any fiction this month. Except for the usual; the Kaje Harper stories and the Flash Fiction Draw Challenge stories (not … Continue reading →

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Reading Report, March 20th, 2024. From Jeff Baker.

Posted on March 21, 2024 by jeffbaker307

Reading Report: February/March, 2024 Again this month, unless noted most of these are short stories. Re-read Asimov’s “Where No Man Persueth.” Listened to a reading (on You Tube) of Mike Resnick’s story “The Wizard Of West 34th Street.” Posted it … Continue reading →

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Reading Report January/February 2024. From Jeff Baker. (February 23, 2024)

Posted on February 24, 2024 by jeffbaker307

Reading Report for February 20th, 2024 (Covering Jan/Feb. 2024) Most of my fiction reading has been short-stories from the middle of January through mid-February. Read several of Fritz Leiber’s “Changewar” stories (many collected in the book “Changewar,” my paperback dating … Continue reading →

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Reading Report: December 2023/January 2024, from Jeff Baker. (January 19, 2024)

Posted on January 19, 2024 by jeffbaker307

Reading Report for January 2024 (!!!!) Starting off with the last week in December, 2023, I finished reading James Moran’s story “A Canadian Ghost In London,” from his collection “Fear itself.” I THINK I’ve read all the stories in the … Continue reading →

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Reading Report, December 2023 from Jeff Baker. (December 22, 2023)

Posted on December 22, 2023 by jeffbaker307

First off, an addenda to last month’s report; I read a Sherlock Holmes story I hadn’t read before. “The Adventure of The Three Students.” I’m crazy about anything Arthur Conan Doyle wrote and this story is fun, even though the … Continue reading →

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Reading Report Addenda: The Poe Project. Jeff Baker, December 2, 2023

Posted on December 2, 2023 by jeffbaker307

The Poe Project by Jeff Baker Introduction: The Neglected Poe Mention Edgar Allan Poe and several stories immediately come to mind: “Fall of the House of Usher.” “Pit and the Pendulum.” “The Purloined Letter.” “The Black Cat.” Everybody knows those. … Continue reading →

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Reading Report for November 2023 from Jeff Baker. (A New Feature of This Blog!)

Posted on November 23, 2023 by jeffbaker307

Reading Report for November 2023 from Jeff Baker. November 23, 2023 (Thanksgiving!) This, the first of these monthly reading reports, is being written in my Brother’s guest room, early in the morning of Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 2023. I can’t … Continue reading →

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