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Art Tirrell's Blog – October 2007 Archive (3)

P.G. Wodehouse Meets Monty Python

Review of "Recycling Jimmy" by Andy Tilley

To say the least, in Andy Tilley's brash novel "Recycling Jimmy", antihero Jimmy's judgment is suspect. He's foolish, irreverent, and passive; just what you'd expect from a bloke whose emotional development got euthanized sometime during his teens. In the opening scene…

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Added by Art Tirrell on October 12, 2007 at 7:28pm — No Comments

Women of Magdalene Brims with Repressed Sensuality

From his first words, Dr. Robert Mallory, narrator and newly appointed physician of The Magdalene Ladies Lunatic Asylum, grasps the reader’s fullest attention, and rarely does his grip loosen as the theme of Rosemary Poole-Carter’s fascinating historical novel, Women of Magdalene, unfolds.

The young doctor, influenced by an undisclosed personal tragedy and further damaged by years as a Civil War surgeon, takes charge of physical medicine at the asylum, but each time the…

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Added by Art Tirrell on October 11, 2007 at 7:31am — No Comments

Another Lake Ontario Shipwreck Located

If you think the wreck of HMS Ontario, the lost British warship I feature in my novel The Secret Ever Keeps, is at all far-fetched, here's a bit of news that will interest you. This week, shipwreck enthusiast Ken Kennard of Rochester NY announced the discovery of the schooner Orcadian, lost in Lake Ontario west of… Continue

Added by Art Tirrell on October 5, 2007 at 7:45am — No Comments