What you can expect from the Bookflings blog:

Something Old, Something New

A lot of readers only read contemporary books, and don’t want to try something old-fashioned or out-of-date. And a lot of other readers are mired in the Golden Age, reading only tried-and-true books by their favorite writers. The contemporary group is missing out on some of the best books ever written, and the classic group is running out of things to read.

In Something Old, Something New, Bookflings will link one old and one new mystery novel in some way, and may spark some crossover interest.

What’s old? What’s new? It’s all relative, isn’t it?

Rolling Reviews

Most reviews are written after the reviewer has finished the book, and can contemplate it as a whole. Opinions and emotions that the book raised partway may be forgotten. In Rolling Reviews you’ll get three or more reviews of the same book as it is read.

Is this better? No, just different.

(You can get more regular reviews than you can possibly read at the Mystery Scene reviews page.)

Plain Old Posts

Here is where the uncategorized posts go to live. You might see anything of interest to the mystery reader here.

Bookflings does have a special fondness for puzzle mysteries and thrillers, so you might see some bias in those directions. But we’ll cover noir, cat mysteries, mysteries with puns in the title, science fiction mysteries, procedurals, and anything else that’s worth a Fling.

Announcements

If there’s anything worth announcing about Bookflings itself, it will be in this category.

Why Bookflings?

Well, some books are worth having a Fling with, aren’t they? We can get pretty involved with them.

And some you want to Fling across the room.

Plus it sounds good.