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The Burning Girl by Claire Messud My rating: 5 of 5 stars If you liked Megan Abbott's "Dare Me" and Tana French's ...

The Outsider by Stephen King My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Outsider is excellent work by Stephen King - his best in quite a while. I read...

Yarrow by Charles de Lint My rating: 4 of 5 stars In this enjoyable work of speculative fiction, Cat Midhir has a foot in two worlds....

Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman My rating: 4 of 5 stars This novel has all the merits of Bouman's "The Bramble and the Rose...

The Bramble and the Rose by Tom Bouman My rating: 3 of 5 stars Quarantined at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I read this in about t...

Fox News Channel is the most-watched U.S. cable news network, according to this October 2019 story in Deadline.com .  Viewers in 3rd Q...

Conviction by Denise Mina My rating: 4 of 5 stars I've read most of Denise Mina's novels. For some reason I can't quite re...

Walk the Wild With Me by Rachel Atwood My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a nice read for fantasy fans, followers of folklore and Anglophil...

A recent article in The Londonist makes the startling observation that "mind the gap" announcements on the Underground were once m...

The Shropshire Hoard These coins, found in a farmer's field in England , are roughly 2,000 years old. The metal detectorists who une...

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2019 ISBN 9781101947753 (ebook) In this splendid novel by one of my favorite writers, three men in their mi...

In recent weeks, much ink has been spilled over the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Among the more interesting tidbits: ...

Dedicated to Walt Whitman I am a man of the narrow spaces There no space remains To breathe, to grow, to live To chew, to brush, ...

Last night, watching Turner Classic Movies, I stumbled across a film that I've been searching for since childhood. I saw part of it on t...

I'm very proud of myself for not posting this on Facebook, which I almost did a moment ago. So I'm going to vent here and now.  Ac...

On January 25 the Nevada Gaming Control Board filed a complaint against Wynn Resorts, owner and operator of the luxurious Wynn and Encore ho...

In September 2017, I outlined a plan for reading one page of the Bible per day. Ever seeking to celebrate small accomplishments (a good mora...

To:  William GIbbs Editor, Coin World Magazine Sir, I enjoyed Chris Bulfinch’s article Fasces on U.S. Coins  in the October 29 editio...

A few days ago, a man named  Robert Bowers killed 11 Jews in a Pittsburgh synagogue. News reports indicate that the shooter believed Jews a...

Today I sent this e-mail to both of my U.S. senators. Having resisted the temptation to post this on Facebook, this matter is still gnawing ...