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Showing posts with label Literary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Literary. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Book Review: "Life Unworthy" by Christopher Taylor

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In the old days, when authors used agents and got publishing contracts, Christopher Taylor's books would have been published by Ace ...
Friday, January 6, 2017

Hillary, Obama, & the Democrats Mistake Monty Python For A Real Playbook

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Hillary, Democrats, Media, & Quislings started out by pretending that poor old Hillary " I fall down but someone props me up agai...
Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Author Richard Adams Has Passed Away, at a Good Age

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While everyone is talking about George Michael and Carrie Fisher, who both died too young, and ZsaZsa Gabor, who nearly made it to 100,...
Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Our Stand Against The Dark: "That Hideous Strength"

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Kristor Lawson writes, at The Orthosphere: " Who has read and remembers That Hideous Strength –  ... [ novel by CS Lewis] ,.... – ...
Monday, May 23, 2016

At Daily Pundit: Presumptive vs Presumed, and Why It Matters (UPDATED)

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Wordsmith Bill Quick (who coined the term "Blogosphere") at Daily Pundit offers a vocabulary lesson : " A fast and dirty ...
Friday, July 3, 2015

The Crossroads: A Reminder on Choices, and Freedom from C.S. Lewis

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On freedom (and predestination) "It will be too late then to choose your side. There is no use saying you choose to lie down when ...
Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Progressive Blacklists Get Uglier: Dinesh D'Sousa's "America" (#5 Best Seller on Amazon) Removed From Costco Shelves

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At least McCarthy was loyal to the United States of America. The Progressive Blacklisting of anything decent and normal and American is gett...
Monday, May 12, 2014

The Other Dame Julian: The Mother of Fly Fishing was a 15th Century English Nun

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I first read about Dame Juliana Berners a few weeks ago, and I am still enthralled with this quaint little fact from " A Brief History ...
Monday, April 28, 2014

Kon-Tiki - An Exercise in Real Anthropological Science from 1947, and an Exciting Adventure Too!

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 Somehow I have a great fascination with first-person accounts of exploration - especially on the ocean or in the arctic. Why I do not kn...
Thursday, February 6, 2014

'Calamity Jane' The Great American Desert Novel

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[Note: I posted this book review on Amazon this morning, but will also put it here. I'm not an Amazon affiliate, so please go throu...
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Thursday, September 19, 2013

The Author Reviews My Review

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There are some good books out there in the self publishing world today. One way to find some of the better ones is to read the authors'...
Sunday, June 10, 2012

Computer Failure and Summer Pleasantries

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My trusty Dell Inspiron lies comatose, due to hard drive failure. It is 6 years old, so unlikely that we'll have it repaired. I'm go...
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Sunday, May 20, 2012

A Nook eReader: Make Room for the Library of Alexandria

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Where have I been all week? Wellllll.....Devin and Sandy gave me a Nook for Mother's Day. Oh my! Here was a gift I didn't know ...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Heart Shaped Leaves of Spring

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Spring is my favorite time of year. The whole world shows the promise of new life. It's a joy to walk outside each morning and see what...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

On Fact and Fallacy, and How They Can Change: "Ten Thousand Years Ago, A Lemming"

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 The most awesome thing about this story: " Scientists in Russia have grown plants from fruit stored away in permafrost by squirrels ov...
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Sunday, November 20, 2011

Not Only the Icelanders: Translating Praise Music from 1500 Years Ago, and the Future of Printed Books

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It's often told that in the most literate society in the world, Iceland, readers can still understand books written in Icelandic 800 yea...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

"...but the blessing of earth is toil."

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" Born within a lowly stable, where the cattle 'round Me stood, Trained a carpenter in Nazareth, I have toiled, and found it good...
Sunday, September 18, 2011

Adding To Our Media Library: Best British Mysteries, Clean Comedy, and Awesome Nature & Travel Documentaries

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So today I have been searching for DVD bargains on Amazon. We are fleshing out our collection with clean comedy, documentaries, movies we...
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Thursday, September 8, 2011

What Did People Do Before Blogs? The American Amateur Press Association (AAPA) is 75 Years Old This Month!

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This is A Printing Office Crossroads of Civilization Refuge of All the Arts Against the Ravages of Time Armoury of Fearless Truth Aga...
Monday, August 22, 2011

Texas Accent? What Texas Accent?

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A few years ago, I was in California for a large meeting in the company I worked for. I'm an Okie who lived in the Permian Basin most of...