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Category Archives: Recommended
Book Review—Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
This true story is about a young man, Christopher McCandless, who leaves his middle-class home in Virginia to wander the country alone with no money, no plan, and no destination. Krakauer follows his journey through the American west, piecing together the details, and all the way to Alaska, where McCandless’s body was found in a rusted bus near the Stampede Trail. Continue reading
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Tagged Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer, nonfiction, Travel, Wilderness
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Book Review—Without You, There Is No Us by Suki Kim
North Korea is a dark spot on a nighttime map. It is Big Brother incarnate, the squatting enemy in its fortress, and by and large, a total mystery. The constant flow of news has become monotonous and unreliable. In truth, we … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Fiction, Recommended
Tagged book review, books, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un, nonfiction, North Korea, Suki Kim
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Book Review—Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Post-apocalyptic themes have been trending within the fiction world for quite awhile. Don’t get me wrong, I love me a bit of the end-of-the-world, but remember when Arthur C. Clarke wrote about “electronic papers” in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” (1968) … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalypse, book review, books, Mary St John Mandel, post-apocalyptic fiction, Station Eleven
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Book Review—Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
When I asked the information desk at the bookstore where I could find this book, the lady behind the counter replied: “Oh, what a dismal title.” Indeed. If you are like most people, you fear death. You may not think … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, books, Caitlin Doughty, Crematory, Death, Memoir, nonfiction, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
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Book Review—All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Anthony Doerr’s “All The Light We Cannot See” is another 2014 book that has made my best-of-all-time list. This novel follows the lives of two children amidst World War Two: the first, a blind French girl running and hiding from the … Continue reading
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Tagged All The Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr, book review, books, fiction, World War Two
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Book Review—The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
It’s quite a rare thing for someone to say that they read a tome of a book in about four days, yet this is exactly what I did with David Mitchell’s new novel “The Bone Clocks.” At times, my brain … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, books, David Mitchell, post-apocalyptic fiction, The Bone Clocks
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Cthulhu Ftagen He Will Come
Between the creeping madness of Poe and the blind visceral horror of Stephen King lies H.P. Lovecraft. Creator of the great Cthulhu Mythos, Lovecraft is guaranteed to make you doubt the relative safety of the known universe. Imagine, hidden in the … Continue reading
Posted in Horror, Recommended, Tiddlybits/Musings
Tagged Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft, horror
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Book Review—The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
For this particular book I shall deviate from the normal process of presenting my opinion, and instead leave you with a quotation from the very first chapter of the book: “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Horror, Recommended
Tagged book review, books, Haunted House, horror, Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
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