Thommy Ford Reads

A blog by the staff of the Thomas Ford Memorial Library

“Jamie Freel and the Young Lady” by Letitia Maclintock

This short comes from Yeats’ collection of Irish Fairy and Folk Tales. “Jamie Freel and the Young Lady” is a beautiful Halloween piece that focuses on the wild celebrations of the fae instead of the … Continue reading

August 29, 2015 · Leave a comment

Free eBook Review: Lady into Fox by David Garnett

Hearing the hunt, Mr. Tebrick quickened his pace so as to reach the edge of the copse, where they might get a good view of the hounds if they came … Continue reading

January 23, 2014 · Leave a comment

Free eBook Review: The Chimes by Charles Dickens

He saw the tower, whither his charmed footsteps had brought him, swarming with dwarf phantoms, spirits, elfin creatures of the Bells.  He saw them leaping, flying, dropping, pouring from the … Continue reading

December 20, 2013 · Leave a comment

Free eBook Review: “The Machine Stops” by E.M. Forster

Looking for some free books to fill your eReader? You may already know that there are plenty of classics available as free downloadable eBooks, but if you explore enough you’ll … Continue reading

November 22, 2013 · Leave a comment

Free eBook Review: Unusual Tales #10 by Steve Ditko

For fans of silver age comics there are few more legendary and respected artists than Steve Ditko. He’s most famous for the first 38 issues of Spider-Man, a character he … Continue reading

October 25, 2013 · Leave a comment

Free eBook Review: Love Among the Chickens by P.G. Wodehouse

P.G. Wodehouse’s best loved works are still not public domain. Most of Blandings and most of Jeeves are copyright protected. Don’t be too downhearted, though.  Think of it as an … Continue reading

September 24, 2013 · Leave a comment

Free eBook Review: Siegfried Sassoon

This year’s BIG READ is Adriana Trigiani’s The Shoemaker’s Wife, a historical novel set against the backdrop of the American immigrant experience of the early twentieth century. For the next few … Continue reading

February 8, 2013 · Leave a comment

Free eBook Review: The Lunatic at Large by J. Storer Clouston

Looking for some free books to fill your eReader?  You may already know that there are plenty of classics available as free downloadable eBooks, but if you explore enough you’ll … Continue reading

November 23, 2012 · Leave a comment

Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov (M Kurkov & Media on Demand)

Life in 1990s Kiev is hard. The winter is brutal, jobs are scarce, and the government is corrupt. Viktor Alekseyevich Zolotaryov is very lucky to have been hired to write … Continue reading

November 9, 2012 · Leave a comment

Free eBook Review: Trent’s Last Case by E.C. Bentley

Looking for some free books to fill your eReader?  You may already know that there are plenty of classics available as free downloadable eBooks, but if you explore enough you’ll … Continue reading

October 30, 2012 · Leave a comment

Free eBook Review: 4 Classic Horror Novels

For me the month of October has always been an excuse to read nothing but horror novels. Though, so much quality horror  is now public domain and freely available for … Continue reading

September 25, 2012 · Leave a comment

Free eBook Review: The Lost Stradivarius (1895) by John Meade Falkner

Looking for some free books to fill your eReader?  You may already know that there are plenty of classics available as free downloadable eBooks, but if you explore enough you’ll … Continue reading

August 28, 2012 · Leave a comment

Dastardly Reads

I recently did a short review of John Gardner’s Moriarty books (The Return of Moriarty and The Revenge of Moriarty) and it got me thinking about other novels that focus … Continue reading

August 14, 2012 · Leave a comment

Free eBook Review: News from Nowhere by William Morris and a Few Other Utopian eBooks

Looking for some free books to fill your eReader?  You may already know that there are plenty of classics available as free downloadable eBooks, but if you explore enough you’ll … Continue reading

July 27, 2012 · Leave a comment

Free eBook Review: The Screaming Mimi (1949) by Fredric Brown

Looking for some free books to fill your eReader?  You may already know that there are plenty of classics available as free downloadable eBooks, but if you explore enough you’ll … Continue reading

June 29, 2012 · Leave a comment

Free eBook Review: The Riddle of the Sands (1903) by Erskine Childers

Looking for some free books to fill your eReader?  You may already know that there are plenty of classics available as free downloadable eBooks, but if you explore enough you’ll … Continue reading

May 29, 2012 · Leave a comment

Free eBook Review: Jack Sheppard (1839) by William Harrison Ainsworth

Looking for some free books to fill your eReader?  You may already know that there are plenty of classics available as free downloadable eBooks, but if you explore enough you’ll … Continue reading

April 27, 2012 · Leave a comment

Troubles by J.G. Farrell (a downloadable eBook from Media On Demand)

In J.G. Farrell’s Troubles, Major Brendan Archer, an English soldier visiting Brighton while on leave from the frontlines of WWI, impulsively proposes to Angela Spencer, the daughter of an Anglo-Irish … Continue reading

April 11, 2012 · Leave a comment

Free eBook Review: The House on the Borderland (1908) by William Hope Hodgson

Looking for some free books to fill your eReader?  You may already know that there are plenty of classics available as free downloadable eBooks, but if you explore enough you’ll … Continue reading

March 31, 2012 · Leave a comment