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Category Archives: Reviews
Short rounds: explosives and Martians
Tonight I finally gave up on Hayduke Lives!, the sequel to Edward Abbey’s Monkey Wrench Gang. The plot only arrives four-fifths of the way into the book, having been preceded by lots of stream-of-consciousness rambling, pointless arguments, and enough breast … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, science fiction
Tagged American Southwest, C.S.Lewis, Christian literature, CS Lewis, Edward Abbey, fantasy, science fiction
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Reads to Reels: Brave Cowboy/Lonely are the Brave
Lonely are the Brave dramatizes Edward Abbey’s Brave Cowboy, and I daresay improves upon it. As with Abbey’s original, the plot features a cowhand who still lives and breathes in the Old West, thrown into conflict against the forces of … Continue reading
The Brave Cowboy
The Brave Cowboy: An Old Tale in a New Time© 1956 Edward Abbey277 pages “Where’re your papers?” “My what?” “Your I.D. — draft card, social security, driver’s license.” “Don’t have none. Don’t need none. I already know who I am.” … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged American Southwest, American West, Edward Abbey, Man vs State, New Mexico
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West of the Revolution
West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776© 2015 Claudio Saunt288 pages In 1776, the bid of thirteen colonies for independence wasn’t the only interesting goings-on in North America. From Alaska to Cuba, colonial and native powers were fighting, … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged American Southwest, American West, Colonial America, history, Native America, Russia, Spain, trade
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The Sword of Summer
Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Sword of Summer© 2015 Rick Riordan491 pages Magnus Chase is the Boy Who Lived. As a youngster he witnessed his mother sacrifice herself for him, dying at the hands of some evil … Continue reading
World War Z
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War© 2006 Max Brooks352 pages Reading Night of the Living Trekkies put me in the mood for more weird fiction, and World War Z fits the bill! Fictional, but not a … Continue reading
Week of Enchantment: Nerd on Pilgrimage
I left Las Cruces in the early morning, joining the interstate with no problem at all. This was, I realized with a sigh, my last Epic Drive. At some point today I would arrive in Albuquerque, and from there I … Continue reading
Katherine of Aragon
Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen© 2016 Alison Weir624 pages Mention the Tudor court, and invariably people think of Henry VIII and his famed mistress, Anne Boleyn. But the wife Henry abandoned came from a far more interesting family. Catherine … Continue reading
Posted in historical fiction, Reviews
Tagged Alison Weir, Britain, historical fiction, Tudor England, women
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Timeless Mexico
Timeless Mexico436 pages© 1944 Hudson Strode My knowledge of Mexico consists of a few events with a great many spaces in between: Aztecs, Cortes, independence, war with Texas, Pancho Villa, the PRI, and cartel warfare encapsulate my paltry knowledge. I … Continue reading
This week: MURDER! and leftovers
From The Montgomery Advertiser. Last night I enjoyed the Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s final performance of “The Mousetrap”, based off of Christie’s “Three Blind Mice”. (The play is still running in the west end, of course, sixty four years and counting…) … Continue reading
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