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Top Ten Best Fantasy Books I’ve Read So Far

Posted on April 6, 2022 by admin

I classify ‘fantasy’ in a fairly broad way, summarized by ‘swords and sorcery;’ you know, mythical lands, wizards and goddesses, brawny barbarians, Game of Thrones. But not necessarily all swords and mythical ages; they can be set in contemporary times, … Continue reading →

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Where I Get my Books

Posted on February 13, 2022 by admin

I have somewhere between 500- 600 books. I don’t think that’s excessive because those are acquisitions over a 60 year period, if you count the Dr. Seuss I had when I was a kid. I’ve probably lost or tossed an … Continue reading →

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Deflating the Expanse

Posted on January 24, 2022 by admin

About two minutes into season 6 of The Expanse, rumored to be the last and final and never will it come this way again (maybe), I thought, “Did they change writers or something?” Because, about two minutes into it, I … Continue reading →

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The B Team is in Charge

Posted on January 9, 2022 by admin

My passport expired. So did my wife’s. Being a savvy computer-literate American, I dutifully downloaded the requisite Department of State forms, filled them out as pdfs, printed them, and then researched methods to obtain requisite passport photos. I could upload … Continue reading →

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The Authors I Always Read

Posted on January 3, 2022 by admin

I’ve been a reader for as long as I can remember, which isn’t really all that far back. The earliest memory I have is probably my 4th birthday; I got cupcakes instead of a regular cake and I was not … Continue reading →

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Expanding The Expanse

Posted on December 15, 2021 by admin

The Expanse Season 6, the last season, is now available and, in celebration, in anticipation, I started the whole series all over again. Yes, Remember the Cant and Detective Miller, my favorite character of the whole series and I am … Continue reading →

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Duuune

Posted on November 29, 2021 by admin

Dune is one of those books you had to read during my high school, along with the Lord of the Rings, the Foundation series, and anything by Herman Hesse, or you just weren’t cool. I was cool, so I read … Continue reading →

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Best 10 Big Books I’ve Read

Posted on October 16, 2021 by admin

A guy I know published a book that came in about 650 pages. It did alright. Got good reviews, but didn’t sell. So his agent told him to break it up into two volumes of about 300 pages each and … Continue reading →

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Put Two Genres in a Room and See What Happens

Posted on October 3, 2021 by admin

Back in the days when we had three channels on TV, we had three reading genres: fiction, non-fiction, science fiction. Yep, that was pretty much it. Fiction covered serious, well-written adult novels that ranged from the classics to contemporaries like … Continue reading →

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Crowbar

Posted on September 14, 2021 by admin

I like Mark Walker games. I have quite a few from the Lock and Load and Flying Pigs labels, and they are always absorbing, often entertaining. There’s a couple that I don’t take off the shelf that often, like All … Continue reading →

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