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Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front
Life, Death, and Growing up on the Western Front© 2013 Anthony Fletcher352 pages In 1914 Britons marched to war, and with them they took their hearts. Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front takes in the experience of … Continue reading
A Short History of Byzantium
A Short History of Byzantium, John Julius Norwich© 1997 John Julius Norwich431 pages Rome fell in a.d. 474? Tell that to the Byzantines, who for centuries persisted in being an afterimage of the classical world, … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, classical world, Eastern Europe, Eastern Rome/Byzantine, Medieval, Middle East, Near East, religion, Rome, Turkey
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NaNoWriMo 2014
It’s National Novel Writing Month again, and I’m once again tasking myself with the challenge of writing 50,000 words before November is out. The challenge starts on November 1st, of course. I have an idea in mind that’s a quasi-fantasy … Continue reading
The Unknown War
The Unknown War© 1931 Winston Churchill396 pages The war to end all wars, what Sir Winston Churchill aptly described as the world crisis, began when a Serbian partisan assassinated the heir of Austria-Hungary’s throne, setting into motion a Rube Goldberg … Continue reading
Remembering
Remembering© 1988 Wendell Berry112 pages Andy Catlett is a man far from home, wounded in spirit and in body. His right hand was eaten and destroyed by mechanized farm equipment, and in attending an agricultural … Continue reading
Inch by Inch: A Reading
“If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked — but of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all … Continue reading
This week: airplanes with Jesus, Kurt Vonnegut, and Voltaire
This past weekend I read through A Day with a Perfect Stranger, not a difficult task given that it’s less than 100 pages. A sequel to Dinner with a Perfect Stranger, which featured overworked businessman … Continue reading
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Fellowship of the Ring, being the first part of the Lord of the Rings© 1954 J.R.R Tolkien570 pages Not many birthday gift involves a life-threatening quest to defeat a Dark Lord and prevent the enslavement of all living creatures, … Continue reading
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Tagged "classic", adventure, Classics and Literary, fantasy, heroic epic, JRR Tolkien, poetry
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Wiseguy
Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family © 1986 Nicholas Pileggi, Henry Hill 256 pages How does a boy from a nice family grow up to be a gangster? Well, it helps to live across the street from a mob-owned cab … Continue reading
The Sorrows of Empire
The Sorrows of Empire© 2009 David Mack464 pages In the original series episode “Mirror, Mirror”, Star Trek heroes Kirk,McCoy Uhura, and Scotty inadvertently changed places with their counterparts in a mirror universe, alter egos who were agents of a galactic … Continue reading
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