Thursday, March 19, 2015

The Monkey's Wrench by Primo Levi

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The Monkey's Wrench is a slim, wise novel. Primo Levi begins with the simplest of circumstances, two men in a remote location who pa...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Summer of Love, A Time Travel by Lisa Mason

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Summer of Love, A Time Travel is a fine story. Lisa Mason takes three interesting characters, a time traveller from a future 500 years ...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

The Golden Road and Beyond: A Grateful Dead Primer

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I've been a Deadhead for about four decades now. It was a cassette of American Beauty that turned me on to Jerry and the gang. I know...
Friday, December 26, 2014

The Uncanny Valley: Tales from a Lost Town by Gregory Miller

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I believe in ghosts. Perhaps not ghosts in the literal sense, but I believe a person's spirit can live on, in the stories that we...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Ursula K. Le Guin: Empathy and Big Ideas

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I recently read a couple of wonderful books by Ursula K. Le Guin that reminded me once again what a gifted and skillful writer she is. Le...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Discovering Avram Davidson

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When I first encountered Avram Davidson he was in disguise. I was a bookish teenager with an appetite for mystery novels. I devoured tale...
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Friday, October 31, 2014

Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler

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Sarah Canary is a wonderfully deceptive book. The title suggests biography or a single life rendered in fiction, but Sarah Canary is so...