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I don't dare post this on Facebook, because it will infuriate a certain percentage of people and lead to a series of messy, exhausting o...

I asked Nancy that question recently. Her response: "If God doesn't exist, then how did we get here?" That's a useful way ...

This English actress is one of the reasons I like the "Carry On" films from Ealing Studios. Who could forget her in "Carry O...

  My rating: 2 of 5 stars Every so often, I read a book simply because it has been on The New York Times bestseller list for a long time...

My cold or Covid or whatever it is has turned into a deep cough that is, in clinical terms, “productive.” I had a teleconference appointment...

  Suffering with a wicked cold, I've devised a three-point plan for my recovery.  Get my strength back Get back on my feet  Get back to ...

Having completed my reading of The Gospel According to John (The New Oxford Annotated Bible, New Standard Revised Version), I have to say s...

After the Uvalde TX killings, two Facebook users (one of whom is unknown to me) took me to task for using the phrase "military-style r...

Important news: this “classic” Abbott and Costello film from 1952 is now out on BluRay:   https://www.classicflix.com/blog/2022/04/18/jack-a...

249 pp. Hard Case Crime/Titan Books. London. 2014. ISBN 978-1-78116-777-9 This is a reprint of a novel originally published in 1961 under ...

The Pagan God: Popular Religion in the Greco-Roman Near East   by Javier Teixidor The idea of a pagan god has a certain creepy attraction. ...

  Revelator by Daryl Gregory My rating: 5 of 5 stars How much did I like this book? So much that I began it on Wednesday night and finish...

  Message from Malaga by Helen MacInnes My rating: 3 of 5 stars Originally published in 1971, this espionage novel is indeed a "good...

Fair Warning by Michael Connelly My rating: 4 of 5 stars I was pleasantly surprised to find myself enjoying this book. I didn't pa...

Morgan le Fay, King Arthur’s half-sister (sometimes called Morgana), is involved in the current plot in the Prince Valiant comic strip.  Thi...

by Theodore Dreiser Library of America, New York  972 pages. ISBN 978-1-931082-310. This outstanding novel is based on the true story of t...

A Girl's Life in the Incredible String Band By Rose Simpson. Strange Attractor Press. 2020. 264 pages. ISBN 978-1-90-7222672. I liked...

by Stephen King Pocket Books. 2008.  800 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1416552963 This is a superior entry in the King canon. As you'd expect, it...

by Irwin Shaw Dell Publishing Co. New York. 1951.  509 pages. ISBN 0-440-18608-0 My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Communist witch hunt of t...

By Danielle Trussoni Viking New York. 2013. 320 pages.  ISBN-13: 978-1-101-60606-3 Angelopolis by Danielle Trussoni My rating: 4 of 5 star...