Category Archives: Reading Report

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

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)

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)

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)

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

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!)

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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