Monday, March 27, 2017

So long (for now) and thanks for all the fish...

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It's been a good run, y'all (in fact, its been running for a little over twelve years !), but I'm going to call it quits on Spac...
Saturday, March 04, 2017

The Death-Ray by Daniel Clowes (2011)

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My latest selection from the St. Denis bookshelf in exile is  The Death-Ray by Daniel Clowes (2011). As an established Clowes fan, I was ...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (2010)

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I don't tend to read that much non-fiction and I really really don't tend to read much in the world of activism or politics, but a...
Wednesday, February 01, 2017

Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence (1920)

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He put his hand to his mouth and threw his cigarette away, a gleaming point, into the unseen hedge. Then he was quite free to balance her...
Sunday, January 01, 2017

Elizabeth Murray: Paintings and Drawings (1987)

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I had never heard of abstract artist Elizabeth Murray (1940-2007) before I picked up my friend John's copy of  Elizabeth Murray: Paint...
Monday, December 26, 2016

The Story of Christianity, Volume 1: The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation by Justo L. González (2010)

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I decided to audit the church history class at the seminary where I work this past semester, and one of the textbooks we used was  The Sto...
Saturday, December 10, 2016

Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories, edited by Roald Dahl (1984)

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I read this lovely anthology of classic ghost stories ( Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories (1984)) as a Halloween-themed treat for th...