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Kenobi
Star Wars: Kenobi © 2014 John Jackson Miller464 pages The Republic is fallen, and the Jedi are no more. The few survivors of Emepror Palpatine’s purge have fled, scattered across the galaxy with their own individual missions. For Obi-Wan Kenobi, … Continue reading
A Walk Around the Block
A Walk Around the Block: Stoplight Secrets, Mischievous Squirrels, Manhole Mysteries & Other Stuff You See Every Day (And Know Nothing About)© 2020 Spike Carlsen336 pages One of my favorite books to think back on is Scott Huler’s On the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged bicycles, energy, infrastructure, Politics-CivicInterest, waste
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The Autobiogaphy of Miss Jane Pittman
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman259 pages© 1982 Ernest Gaines A young girl carries water for both exhausted rebels and the jubilant army chasing them. An elderly lady who has seen sorrow after sorrow visited on herself and her loved … Continue reading
Posted in Classics and Literary, Reviews
Tagged Ernest Gaines, race, Southern Literature, women
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The Old Man and the Boy
The Old Man and the Boy© 1957 Robert Ruark303 pages Of the various titles on my Classics Club Strikes back list, The Old Man and the Boy is something of an outlier; I’d venture to say that most people haven’t … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged Classics Club Strikes Back, Nature, Of Boys and Men, outdoors, Southern Literature
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Permanent Record
Permanent Record© Edward Snowden352 pages Nearly a decade ago we bore witness to magnificent acts of rebellion and alarm-calling, as dissidents like Julian Assange and Edward Snowden began exposing DC’s global surveillance state and abuses of power. DC acted with … Continue reading
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
“In that direction,” the Cat said, waving its right paw round, “lives a Hatter: and in that direction,” waving the other paw, “lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they’re both mad.”“But I don’t want to go among mad … Continue reading
The Awakening of Miss Prim
The Awakening of Miss Prim© 2014 Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera315 pages The Awakening of Miss Prim is a funny little novel, and not the sort of thing that would ordinarily be on my radar: a cozy romance, set in a ridiculously … Continue reading
The Screwtape Letters
In the 1940s, as war waged in Europe, another war raged in England: a struggle for one man’s soul. Advised by his uncle Screwtape, a young demon faced with a new convert to Christianity must work overtime to stifle his … Continue reading
1913: A Year of Gossip
I reviewed this title on goodreads, I described it as “People magazine for prewar Germany & Austria, with Louis Armstrong and a stray Frenchman thrown in for good measure.” There’s no traditional narrative, more a long series of vignettes that … Continue reading