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– Personal ramblings, thinly veiled as thoughts on what I read

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

March 9, 2018January 20, 2018

Jennifer Government – Max Barry

Corporations have slowly been taking over the world, and they are no free to run amok…

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Non-Fiction, Politics  0 Comments

March 2, 2018March 9, 2018

Fire and Fury – Michael Wolff

A book that needs little introduction

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Fiction, Science-Fiction, Whodunit  0 Comments

February 23, 2018February 10, 2018

Altered Carbon – Richard K Morgan

I’m more philosophical than your novel….
But I’m three weeks late of being topical. Curses…

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Classics, Non-Fiction, Poems  0 Comments

February 16, 2018January 7, 2018

Selected Epigrams – Martial (Translated by Susan McLean)

The first century Roman poet fills you in on just what Roman society was like. It’s not what you think.

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Fiction, Horror  0 Comments

February 9, 2018January 7, 2018

It – Stephen King

The children of a small town are being terrorized by an otherworldly entity taking the form of their fears- and a clown.

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Non-Fiction, Politics  0 Comments

February 2, 2018January 29, 2018

The once and future liberal – Mark Lilla

One of the more unsurprising finger-pointing books regarding the last election, this one aims itself at identity politics.

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

January 26, 2018January 7, 2018

The Dreaming Jewels – Theodore Sturgeon

A strange adopted child ends up on the run…

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Memoir, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

January 19, 2018January 7, 2018

Hillbilly Elegy – J.D. Vance

J.D. Vance’s hillbilly childhood was rather poor, and it may be symptomatic of what is wrong in modern America.

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Fiction  0 Comments

January 12, 2018January 7, 2018

Getting Off – Lawrence Block

Sometimes, just by chance, you find a sex and murder filled book on your kindle. Inexplicably …

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Linguistics, Non-Fiction  1 Comment

January 5, 2018January 6, 2018

Words on the move – John McWhorter

John McWhorter knows what he is talking about, and in this volume he goes over much of what people not only do not understand about language, but what many so desperately need to learn about it.

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