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Mustang Winterbottom

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🏳️‍🌈 Tall, always awkward. Born in Chicago, now living in the west side of Los Angeles. Worked on the indie films JUDAS KISS (2011), THE DARK PLACE (2013) & SOMETHING LKE SUMMER (2015). Reader of many books

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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 23h
TV's Golden Age of Made-for-TV Horror Movies A look at DUEL (1971) Link here: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/10/tvs-...
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TV's Golden Age of Made-for-TV Horror Movies
The 1970s was a golden age for made-for-TV horror movies, often broadcast as network "Movies of the Week" (such as the ABC Movie of the Week...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Book 41 of 2026: EVERYONE ON THIS TRAIN IS A SUSPECT (ERNEST CUNNINGHAM 2) by BENJAMIN STEVENSON (2023) #booksky Link here: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/10/book...
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Books: Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect (Ernest Cunningham #2) By Benjamin Stevenson (2023)
“After the overnight success of his first book –the recounting of that tale, which in book is seen as non-fiction than a true whodunit, Er...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Book 41 of 2026: EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE by BENJAMIN STEVENSON (2023) #booksky Review link: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/10/book...
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Books: Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone (Enrest Cunningham #1) by Benjamin Stevenson (2023)
Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I’m not trying to be dramatic, but it ...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Book 40 of 2026: BLACK HOUSE by PETER STRAUB and STEPHEN KING (2001) #booksky My review: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/09/book...
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Books: Black House (Book Two) by Peter Straub and Stephen King (2001)
“Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to a parallel universe called The Territories to save his mother and her Territori...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Book 39 of 2026: THE TALISMAN by PETER STRAUB & STEPHEN KING (1984) #booksky My talky bits: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/09/book...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The TALISMAN series comes to a close this October #bookthreads A link to my story: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/08/book...
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Books: The Talisman Series comes to a Close this October
Back in 1984, when writers Stephen King and Peter Straub released The Talisman , I was in the height of my fantasy reading. But I was al...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Book 38 of 2026: THE LIGHTHOUSE AT THE END OF THE WORLD by PHILIP SUGGARS (2026) #booksky My review link here: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/08/book...
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Books: The Lighthouse At The End Of The World by Philip Suggars (2026)
“Oyster McLellen has spent his life causing mischief. Running with a small-time gang and fleecing money from tourists in Hyde Park to supp...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Book 37 of 2026 LONDON MATCH (BERNARD SAMSON 3) by LEN DEIGHTON #bookSky Review link here: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/08/book...
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Books: London Match (Bernard Samson #3) by Len Deighton (1985)
“ Samson suspects that there is a traitor within his department of MI6, due to the appearance of a memorandum which was leaked to the KGB....
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Book 36 of 2026: MEXICO SET (GAME SET MATCH 2) by LEN DEIGHTON (1985) #booksky Review link: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/08/book...
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Books: Mexico Set (Game Set Match #2) by Len Deighton (1985)
“Bernard Samson is under suspicion because his wife Fiona, a spy like her husband, defected to the Soviets, leaving the London Central peo...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
My High Fantasy problem (and I ther issues with multi-volume epically lengthy books). At 63, I find myself still wanting to read High Fantasy (not interested in Romantasy), but have become turned off by 6 to 10 (if not more) volumes that are 600, 700 or even 1,000 + pages. Example: Tad Williams. 1/
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Book 35 of 2026: THE AVENGERS: DEATH IN DOWNING STREET by DAVID CRIGHTON (2026) #BookSky Review link here: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/07/book...
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Books: The Avengers: Death in Downing Street by David Crighton (2026)
"It’s May 1967. Prime Minister Harold Wilson is determined to take the UK into the European Economic Community – a move that’s divisive am...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Book 34 of 2026: BERLIN GAME by LEN DEIGHTON (1983) #bookSky My review link here: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/07/book...
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Books: Berlin Game by Len Deighton (1983)
“It’s the early 1980s, and a highly placed agent in East Germany codenamed "Brahms Four" (one of Britain's agents behind the Iron Curtain)...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Book 33 of 2026: DEAD RINGER (JACOB ASCH 4) by ARTHUR LYONS (1977) #BookSky Link to my review controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/07/book...
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Books: Dead Ringers (Jacob Asch #4) By Arthur Lyons (1977)
“ Jacob Asch is called in by boxing promoter Jack Schwartz to help out Carlos Realango, an Argentine heavyweight whose career is on the sk...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Book 31 of 2026: THE KILLING FLOOR (JACOB ASCH 3) by ARTHUR LYONS (1976) #BookSky Review link here: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/07/book...
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Books: The Killing Floor (Jacob Asch 3) by Arthur Lyons (1976)
“David Fein has a problem -he's a compulsive gambler. Lately, gambling has completely taken over his life. By the time he takes in Tortorell...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Book 31 of 2026: ALL GOD’S CHILDREN (JACOB ASCH 2) by ARTHUR LYONS (1975) #BookSky My linked review: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/07/book...
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Books: All God's Children by Arthur Lyons (Jacob Asch #2) (1975)
“Jacob Asch, the out-of-work reporter turned detective. Asch is hired by Robert Haynes to find his eighteen-year-old step-daughter, Susan ...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Book 30 of 2026: THE HOOK by DONALD E. WESTLAKE (2000) #BookSky Review link here: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/07/book...
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Books: The Hook By Donald E. Westlake (2000)
“ Wayne Prentice is a midlist author who must face the hard fact that the world no longer values his work. He has watched a pseudonym, two...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Book 29 of 2026: CHILDREN OF TIME by ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY (2015) #BookSky Review link here: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/06/book...
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Books: Children of Time By Adrian Tchaikovsky (2015)
"In the far future, Dr. Avrana Kern is the head of a science team orbiting a terraformed, previously uninhabitable, exoplanet that she hop...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Book 28 of 2026: CANARY (VALENTINE and LOVELACE 4) by NATHAN ALDYNE (1986) #booksky Review link: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/06/book...
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Books: Canary (Valentine and Lovelace #4) By Nathan Aldyne (1986)
“Slate, once the darling of Boston’s gay brigade, is losing money like crazy, largely because someone keeps insisting on leaving dead bodies...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Book 27 of 2026: SLATE (Valentine and Lovelace 3) by NATHAN ALDYNE (1984) #BookSky Review link controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/06/slat...
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Slate (Valentine and Lovelace #3) by Nathan Aldyne (1984)
“Daniel Valentine and Clarissa Lovelace are back in Boston after the summer in P’Town. When Clarissa is gifted a run-down building by her ...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Book 26 of 2026: Q CLEARANCE by PETER BENCHLEY (1986) #BookSky My review: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/06/book...
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Books: Q Clearance by Peter Benchley (1986)
"Timothy Burnham works as a speechwriter to the President. He has been in the same room as the great man, but only with a lot of other peop...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Book 25 of 2026: LEMONS NEVER LIE (ALAN GROFIELD 4) by RICHARD STARK (1972) #booksky Review link: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/06/book...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Book 24 of 2026: THE BLACKBIRD by RICHARD STARK (1969) #booksky Review link: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/?m
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Controlling the Transmissions - Year Twenty-One
"It is likely I will die next to a pile of books I was meaning to read.” -Lemony Snickett
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Book 23 of 2026: STEPS GOING DOWN by JOSEPH HANSEN (1985) #bookSky My take here: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/05/book...
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Books: Steps Going Down by Joseph Hansen (1985)
“Darryl Cutler knows a good thing when he sees it -- and old Stewart Moody's fortune is the best thing he's ever seen. So Darryl takes car...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Book 22 of 2026: COBALT (VALENTINE AND LOVELACE 2) by NATHAN ALDYNE (1984) #BookSky My review link here. controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/05/book...
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Books: Cobalt (Valentine and Lovelace #2) by Nathan Aldyne (1984)
“The setting? Provincetown, circa the early 1980s, otherwise known as Sodom-by-the-Sea. The place? Only the hottest party in town, darling...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Watching #TheBoroughs & in episode two, you have Alfred Molina going through the storage locker of Grace & Edward’s and the flashlight passes over a very familiar statue. It’s from the opening sequence in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, coincidentally, the screen debut of one Alfred Molina
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I know, it’s a disappointing post
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Book 21 of 2026: THE ANNIHILATION SCORE by CHARLES STROSS (2015) #booksky Review link here controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/05/book...
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Books: The Annihilation Score by Charles Stross (2015)
“T he Laundry is recovering from a devastating attack (as seen in the last book, The Rhesus Chart, which also left Bob’s boss dead) and w...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Book 20 of 2026: WICKED STEPMOTHER by AXEL YOUNG (1983) BookSky My review here controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/05/book...
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Books: Wicked Stepmother by Axel Young (1983)
“Seducing a proper Bostonian was easy. Making him die of a heart attack a week after the wedding was hardly any trouble at all. Now she has ...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Book 19 of 2026: THE BEE STING by PAUL MURRAY (2023) #booksky My review link here: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/05/book...
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Books: The Bee Sting by Paul Murray (2023)
“The Barnes family are in trouble. Until recently, they ran the biggest business in town, now they’re teetering on the brink of bankruptcy –...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Book 18 of 2026: BLOOD RUBIES by AXEL YOUNG (1982) #BookSky My review link here controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/04/book...
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Books: Blood Rubies by Axel Young (1982)
"It would bring bad luck, they said. But she split her pair of ruby earrings and gave one to each of her beautiful twin babies. Within hou...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Book 17 of 2026 THE DAY OF THE JACKAL by FREDERICK FORSYTH (1971) #bookSky My review here. controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/04/book...
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Books: The Day of the Jackal By Frederick Forsyth (1971)
“T he Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service ...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Book 16 of 2026: MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE FRONT by GENE L. COON (1961) #booksky My review here: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/04/book...
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Books: Meanwhile, Back at the Front by Gene L. Coon (1961)
“Men are essential to fighting wars and the Marine Corps has thouhjfully gathered 24,000 of them in a limited area in Korea. Ben Hedges is...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Book 15 of 2026: WHEN WE WERE REAL by DARYL GREGORY (2025) #booksky My take here: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/04/book...
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Books: When We Were Real By Daryl Gregory (2025)
“JP and Dulin have been the best of friends for decades. When JP finds out his cancer has aggressively returned, Dulin decides it’s the pe...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Book 14 of 2026: VERMILION by NATHAN ALDYNE (1980) #bookSky Review link controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/03/book...
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Books: Vermilion (Valentine and Lovelace #1) By Nathan Aldyne (1980)
"A dead young hustler is found on the lawn of a queer-baiting legislator. Boston's political and queer communities are up in arms about the ...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Book 13 of 2026: TIMELINE by MICHAEL CRICHTON (1999) #bookSky Review here: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/03/book...
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Books: Timeline By Michael Crichton (1999)
“In an Arizona desert, a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cre...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Book 12 of 2026: THE COMFORTERS by MURIEL SPARK (1957) #booksky My review here: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...
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The Comforters by Muriel Spark (1957)
“Caroline Rose is plagued by the tapping of typewriter keys and the strange, detached narration of her every thought and action. Caroline ...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Book 11 of 2026: THE ELEMENTALS by MICHAEL MCDOWELL (1981) #booksky My review here: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/03/book...
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Books: The Elementals by Michael McDowell (1981)
“On a split of land cut off by the Gulf, three Victorian summer houses stand against the encroaching sand. Two of the houses at Beldame ar...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Book 10 of 2026: NEVER THE TWAIN by KIRK MITCHELL (1987) #booksky My review here: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/03/book...
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Books: Never the Twain By Kirk Mitchell (1987)
“It was all very simple well…well, sort of. All Howard Hart had to do was to go back in time and make sure that Mark Twain‘s literary care...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
It’s sad Dan Simmons has passed. His horrible politics sort of ruined him. And maybe to my own shame, I could not separate his politics from his sometimes brilliant novels. I’ve not read a book by him in years & will probably never pick one up again. www.newsweek.com/hyperion-aut... #booksky
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Book 09 of 2026: DOWN CEMETERY ROAD by MICK HERRON (2003) #booksky My review here: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/02/norm...
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Books: Down Cemetery Road (The Oxford Investigation #1) by Mick Herron (2003)
“When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a young girl disappears in the aftermath, Sarah Tucker—a young married woman, an art c...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Book 08 of 2026: THREE BAGS FULL by LEONIE SWANN (2005) #booksky My review here. controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/02/book...
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Books: Three Bags Full By Leonie Swann (2005)
“Something is not right with George the shepherd. His sheep have gathered around him outside the cozy Irish village of Glennkill to assess t...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Book 07 of 2026: THE AX by DONALD E. WESTLAKE (1997) #booksky My review link here controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/02/book...
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Books: The Ax By Donald E. Westlake (1997)
“Burke Devore ( who I kept thinking as Burke Devlin, a character the late Mitchell Ryan played on DARK SHADOWS) is a middle-aged manager a...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Book 06 of 2026: JACK & SUSAN IN 1933 by MICHAEL MCDOWELL (1987) #bookSky My review here. controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/01/book...
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Books: Jack & Susan in 1933 by Michael McDowell (1987)
“It begins on New Year’s Day, 1933 and the Great Depression has wears on. A lot of people are suffering, including Susan Bright whose fami...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Book 05 of 2026: JACK & SUSAN IN 1913 by Michael McDowell (1986) #bookSky My review here: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/01/book...
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Books: Jack & Susan in 1913 By Michael McDowell (1986)
“It's 1913, and the world is thrilling to that fabulous invention, the motion picture. In their drab New York rooming-house, Jack and Susa...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Book 04 of 2026: JACK & SUSAN IN 1953 by MICHAEL MCDOWELL (1985) #BookSky My take here: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/01/book...
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Books: Jack & Susan in 1953 By Michael McDowell (1985)
“It is 1953 New York and Jack Beaumont is working as a financial planner to a rich woman named Libby.  She has a thing for Jack and wants ...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Book 03 of 2026: JACK FINCH BELIEVES IN GHOSTS by CONNOR BRYAN (2022) #booksky My review here. controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/01/book...
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Books: Jack Finch Believes in Ghosts by Connor Bryan (2022)
“Skeptic meets psychic. Jack Finch is a ghost hunter on the webshow "The Ghost Checkers", currently threatened with cancellation by their ...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Book 02 of 2026: DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL by MATT DINNIMAN (2019/2024). #booksky My review here. controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/01/book...
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Books: Dungeon Crawler Carl By Matt Dinniman (2019/2024)
“Carl, having just been cheated on by his girlfriend and left with her cat, Princess Donut, decides to enter the dungeon and finds himself...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Book 01 of 2026: THE SECRET HOURS by MICK HERRON (2023) #booksky My review here: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2026/01/book...
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Books: The Secret Hours by Mick Herron (2023)
“Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical over-reaching" by the British Secret S...
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
The Book Tally 2025: #Booksky My list here: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2025/12/book...
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Books: The Book Tally for 2025
01. Buying the Farm By Chad Darnell 02. Welcome to Pawnee by Jim O’Heir 03. Dr. Dimension By John DeChancie and David Bischoff 04....
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Mustang Winterbottom @sloatmorgan.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Book 50 of 2025: ENDLESS NIGHT by AGATHA CHRISTIE (1967) #BookSky My review here: controllingthetransmissions.blogspot.com/2025/12/book...
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Books: Endless Night By Agatha Christie (1967)
“Gipsy’s Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea – and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy. There, amon...
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