Pink Begonias, Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden
Housekeeping:
Next week’s column will be single-item, probably a review of a series, and there might be a giveaway attached.
Pictures:
I was able to spend a couple of days at the seaside village of Mendocino, California, and the images used in the column are from that trip.
Books and Writing:
This is two years old but still interesting, as Crime Reads interviews Joe R. Lansale about Hap and Leonard.
Publishers Weekly has an article about bookseller unions. I didn’t know booksellers had unions.
Check out Tor Books’s September new releases in science fiction. There’s a link to fantasy and horror in the article.
Here are some September releases from Tordotcom Publishing.
Finally, new releases from Orbit.
This is a long, interesting article about a real case, and the book sounds intriguing.
TV, Streaming and Movies:
Hummingbird, Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden
Comic Book adaptations continue. This Syfy Wire column has some juicy stuff.
The AV Club takes a look at video concerts and other events, and how a “temporary solution” because of the pandemic may become a fixture, as it makes events more accessible for people living with disabilities. Thanks to File 770.
Gizmodo celebrates the return of FX’s “real” Archer, not fantasy-world Archer.
Internet:
Kotaku shares a roundup of last week’s webcomics.
Tech, Science and Stuff:
Trump’s ban on TikTok did not go into effect last Sunday, and neither did his ban on WeChat.
Bad Astronomy has some cool Jupiter stuff!
Video:
A cute baby otter.
this sounds like a fun one
These weird westerns are always interesting and have been popping up more in recent times (it seemed like there was…
Looking forward to reading the review.
Always my pleasure, Marion! I'm almost finished with Book #3 now, and hope to be reporting on it very shortly....
After reading your review, I'm quite sure I never read this one, or Book Three for that matter. I loved…