Jonathan Cosgrove

Category: Books

  • A good year for Good Reads (Aren’t they all?)

    A good year for Good Reads (Aren’t they all?)

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    Happy New Years to all. It’s January 4th and the first working day for many in the good old République d’Irlande so, naturally, I’m thinking about “goals” and specifically for this post, reading goals… Normally, I use Goodreads to track my books however I find it invigorates a rat race of ‘HOW MANY BOOKS CAN…

  • forever too many books to read

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    This year–like every year–reading has been a fantastic source of respite from the neverending parade of bad news and tragedy unfolding around us. Recently I finished THE YIDDISH POLICEMAN’S UNION–a detective novel by Michael Chabon set in alternative history where Jewish people settled in Sitka, Alaska post WW2–and it was one of the best reads…

  • Book Trailers are Cool

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    Like I said over on Twitter earlier, I really enjoy that book trailers are becoming more of a thing. A couple of years ago I saw Juliet Escoria post one for some book and thought it was a really avant garde move, and that – if I ever had the chance – I’d do it,…

  • Arterial Bloom Review

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    “Arterial Bloom injects the ‘literary’ piece into the horror genre with works that excel in well-crafted surprises, powerful senses of place and character, and works that stand out from the crowd. Contributors to this anthology are diverse in their approaches, plot development, and themes, and so under the general ‘horror’ umbrella there is no unifying…

  • The Fire of Fiction

    The Fire of Fiction

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    So this is a little celebratory post* for myself because… Just hit 10,000 words on my current WIP which I shall name – OPERATION MEZZANINE. It is named for the Massive Attack album which I first listened to on the day I began writing this draft (March 19th). And also my girlfriend’s cluttered mezzanine where…