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Yes, all, there's a review by Declan Burke on prime-time radio of the Gerard Brennan/Mike Stone anthology Requiems for the Dead that you can listen to here -- in fact, I'm sure it'd be possible, were one technoliterate, to download the mp3 file so one could play it on multiple occasions, perhaps -- who knows? -- to one's party guests. To anyone with a loose wallet, anyway.

I'm far too modest to mention that, well on through, there's a "hat's off" to my own humble offering, "The Life Business", which is apparently a "terrific story" -- a point of critical evaluation that I've been repeating to Pam on occasion, sometimes even while asleep.

Talking of reviews that have made me more insufferable than usual, it's no accident that the Amazon.com review I cited the other day by John L. Murphy is a cut above the average: I've discovered from Mike Stone that it's a cross-posting from Murphy's excellent site Blogtrotter, which I strongly suggest you visit: lots of good stuff there.




Date: 2010-07-21 08:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mylefteye.livejournal.com
The book is garnering excellent reviews, the only criticism so far being that the editors didn't keep a tighter rein on the theme, i.e. some stories have a humorous streak while others are dark and gritty. But I like variety. I like anthos where the authors are free to attack the theme at an oblique angle. Maybe we (Gerard and I) could have changed the running order, but I wouldn't omit a single story.

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