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Earl Wajenberg
Posted 1 year ago

This channel gets its material from Goffstown TV, the town cable channel for Goffstown, NH. I do two reading-aloud shows there, "Book Circle" and "Book Spot." "Book Circle" is adult fiction and "Book Spot" is juvenile or, more often, young adult.

Also, sometimes we swap out "Book Spot" for "Book Circle Presents," where I read fiction I have written myself. (If you want to read them instead of hear them, you can find almost all of them at:
windoffthehilltop.com/ink-Stories.html
except for "An Ever-Mounted Cavalry".)


I use my shows to signal-boost authors I think deserve to be better known. This generally means rather older books, and books that have not recently been made into movies, since those are getting plenty of signal-boost already.

It doesn't *have* to be old. There's my own stuff, of course, but I have also recently read "The Demon Priest," an adventure fantasy by my friend Jim Burrows, set in a world of superheros. (Look up G-Man Comics on the web for more information.) And we are experimenting with ways of presenting the comics on TV.

As of this posting, 17 July 2023, I am reading "The Fairacre Festival" by Miss Read on "Book Circle" and my own "An Ever-Mounted Cavalry" on "Book Circle Presents."

When I'm done with Miss Read's material, I am thinking of starting on the novels of Angela Thirkell. Miss Read's pastorals have been well-received, and Thirkell's work is similar, though set in the years before, during, and after World War II, therefore somewhat before Miss Read's. I have already read a couple of Thirkell novels: "The Brandons" and "Cheerfulness Breaks In."

When I am done with "An Ever-Mounted Cavalry," I will go back to "Book Spot" and read the last Robert Heinlein juvenile I plan to do, then look around for something else.

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