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Book Series Review: Firmament
I suppose, technically, watching Star Wars with my dad was my first experience with sci-fi. Or maybe it was my Dora and the Purple Planet video game, although I feel like that doesn’t…
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One More Thing…
Last week, I looked at a book that, while it was enjoyable, was too different from other mysteries to fit my expectations for the genre. This week, I want to look at a…
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Book Review: The Daughter of Time
Well, this is ironic. In last week’s post, I defended Deep Space Nine as “real” Star Trek when many other reviewers didn’t see it that way. This week, I’m going to be questioning whether a…
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TV Review: Deep Space Nine
Space. The final frontier. These are the… Plot twist, not a lot of voyages happening here. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is the third television series in the Star Trek universe and the first…
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Book Review: Death by Misadventure
When I was a kid, I had a video game called “Ty the Tasmanian Tiger.” I absolutely adored it. Those years were also pretty much the extent of my video game experience. When…
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Atticus for America: Part 2
Intro & Recap In last week’s post, I spent a good bit of time looking at what an American hero is and why they have faded in recent decades. I also explained why…
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Atticus for America: Part 1
Introduction I’ve had this idea for a while, but always shied away as I don’t want this blog to be seen as political in any way, and I was afraid that’s how my…
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10 Favorite Picture Books
This blog might not exist if my mom hadn’t read to me every night from birth to teenagerhood. Maybe I would have still fallen in love with books and writing—they seem to be…
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Book Review: A Man Lay Dead
We have reached our fourth and final “Queen of Crime,” the New Zealander Ngaio (Ny-oh) Marsh. She stands out as the only one of the four whose first book was the first I…
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Book Review: The Crime at Black Dudley
We have made it to our penultimate Queen, Margery Allingham. I had not heard of Allingham, at least not that I remember, until watching the TV adaptation of her Campion series. Obviously, I…
