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Book Review: River Of Stars by Guy Gavriel Kay
When I was making my first tentative steps into the world of the arts, it was the writers who used words to create works of wonder and beauty who inspired me the most. I remember being filled with awe...
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Every once in a while, I read a book that, when finished, leaves me content, happy and wrapped in a warm cocoon of happiness. Sieni A.M.’s debut novel, Illumine Her, was just this kind of book....
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Book Review: This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can’t by Augusten...
I hate self-help books. It’s not just because I feel they are basically about taking advantage of other’s misfortune or on the whole useless. No, the real reason I hate them is what the words self-help...
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Book Review: The Honey Thief by Najaf Mazari and Robert Hillman
Whenever I’ve wanted to learn something about a culture I’d read the stories the people told each other. Not the stories others tell about them, or what’s been written about them in history books, but...
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Book Review: Wake Up: A Simon’s Cat Book by Simon Tofield
The majority of animals represented in cartoons, whether animated or not, are anthropomorphized. While occasionally giving animals human characteristics and motivations is funny, most of the time it...
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Book Review: The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller was one of Oprah’s 2012 ‘books of the month.’ It belongs to that increasingly popular genre known as ‘post-apocalyptic fiction’ which uses the crucible of a global...
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Book Review: a seed within by Bruce Kauffman
Unfortunately most of us look upon poetry as something unintelligible and not to be read for pleasure. In fact most of us probably don’t even think of poetry. If reading prose as a form of...
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Book Review: Once Upon a Clockwork Tale: a Short Story Collection
Like a locomotive, Steampunk seems to be charging into the world of speculative fiction. It is by no means a new genre, arguably the first “Science Fiction” from the days of Mary Shelley, Edgar Allen...
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Book Review: ‘How The Light Is Spent’ by Gail Sidonie Sobat
The compulsion to tell stories is probably as old as humanity itself. Originally, histories were recounted through the simple act of passing information from one generation to another orally. When we...
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Book Review: ‘Alif The Unseen’ by G. Willow Wilson
History books are full of the names of the so-called great leaders who have been responsible for the most striking moments in human existence. However, if recent history has shown us anything, leaders...
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Book Review: ‘Ecko Rising’ by Danie Ware
Ever since reading Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court as a kid, I have appreciated the many time travel or “fish out of water” types of stories over the years. There’s something...
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Book Review: ‘The Art of Epic’ by Tara Bennett
Back in April 2013, we started seeing commercials for Epic, a new film by Blue Sky Studios (makers of the Ice Age series, Robots, Rio and others). Without revealing much about the film, the trailers...
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Book Review: ‘Let’s Start a Pussy Riot’– Curator Emely New, Edited by Jade...
On February 21, 2012, members of the Russian feminist performance art group/collective Pussy Riot put on an agit-prop performance in a priests-only section of Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour....
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Book Review: ‘The Ocean at the End of the Lane’ by Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman is an author whose works I’ve enjoyed for many years, starting with Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, and now The Ocean at the End of the Lane (TOATEOTL). Each book seems to explore...
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Book Review: ‘Pacific Rim’ Movie Novelization by Alex Irvine
Sometimes the novel comes before the movie. Sometimes the movie comes before the novel. Which do you think is better? Opinions vary, but odds are the book beats the movie if it came first. The other...
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Book Review: ‘The Crimson Pact’ Volume Five, Edited by Paul Genesse
It’s been close to a year since I first read Paul Genesse’s The Crimson Pact, a collection of short stories, but like some of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes a number of the demon themed tales have...
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Book Review: ‘Drinking Camel’s Milk in the Yurt: Expat Stories from...
It was the title that first caught my eye. Drinking Camel’s Milk in the Yurt sounded both exotic and mysterious; it spoke to me of a bygone era of whimsical journeys to unknown lands, of music playing...
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Book Review: ‘The Presidents Club’ by FCEtier
I’ve always been leary of sequels, having been burned a few times. After reading last year’s The Tourist Killer by FCEtier, I had high hopes for a follow-up, but at the same time worried it wouldn’t...
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Book Review: ‘Lil BUB’s Lil Book’ by Lil BUB
Cute cats have come to dominate our world thanks to the Internet, and none is quite adorable as Lil BUB. Every cat has its schtick, from Grumpy Cat’s perceived grumpiness to the quirks of Maru, and Lil...
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Blu-ray Review: ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug marks Peter Jackson’s fifth cinematic trip to the Tolkien well. While there may have been some fatigue with moviegoers after a fairly pedestrian introduction to The...
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