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    Book review: Ink Black Heart
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    Book review: Ink Black Heart

    Tom Hudson September 27, 2022

    I recently listened to the audio version of the detective novel The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith. Galbraith is the pen name used by J.K. Rowling of Harry Potter fame. This novel is the…

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    Book review: Ill Will
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    Book review: Ill Will

    Tom Hudson September 22, 2022

    I recently read Dan Chaon's 2017 thriller, Ill Will. This is my first book by this author, which reinforces my resolve to ignore online reviews. Can it be that they're all fake? These days I've…

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    Book review: Lord Foul’s Bane
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    Book review: Lord Foul’s Bane

    Tom Hudson August 15, 2022

    I am in the midst of another fiction-consuming binge. When I tire of listening to podcasts I fire up an audio book. Between listening to books and reading them with my Kobo e-Reader, I go…

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    Titanium white
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    Titanium white

    Tom Hudson August 5, 2022

    In the past, I trolled titanium white users--zinc white users too. These whites, inferior as they are, provide the only competition for the champion of oil-paint white, lead white. Actually, it isn't even a contest;…

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    Lead white roundup
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    Lead white roundup

    Tom Hudson July 19, 2022

    I am testing the excellent Michael Harding brand Cremitz white. It really is good stuff. Along with Kremer's Cremitz white, it's among the best lead whites that I've used. Of course, the lead whites from…

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    Review: RGH Flemish White
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    Review: RGH Flemish White

    Tom Hudson May 1, 2022

    I am a fan of RGH's cremnitz white and regularly use it in my paintings, Like their cremnitz white, RGH's Flemish white is lead-based. Regular readers know that I only use lead-based whites in my…

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    Review: The Remembrance of Earth’s Past series
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    Review: The Remembrance of Earth’s Past series

    Tom Hudson April 5, 2022

    I recently finished the science-fiction trilogy The Remembrance of Earth's Past, by Chinese author Cixin Liu. The first and most well know book in the series is The Three-Body Problem. The team that produced The…

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    Review: Cranfield oil paint
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    Review: Cranfield oil paint

    Tom Hudson January 22, 2022

    Part of a recent paint buy included a tube of Cranfield's King's blue deep, which I'd bought in order to review. The Cranfield brand is new to me and King's blue is not a palette…

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