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“A History Remembered by No One” Now Available as a Free Kindle Ebook
Like free books? (And who doesn’t?) For the next five days everyone can pick up a free ebook version from Amazon of my debut book, a collection of stories entitled “A History Remembered by No One: Stories by Sea and Land!” Each life has tied to it a history– but how much of each person’s…
A Letter to Kurt Vonnegut, Never Received, on Account of His Death
written and sent March 30, 2007 Dear Mr. Vonnegut, I will not take much of your time, as we understand there is not much time left to be taken. I want to thank you for being a voice to me since I first encountered your works a few years ago. You see, I discovered a…
Flowers for Frederick
September 23, 2006 Saturday Marley– How have you liked Flowers for Algernon? It must be a different book when reading it, than it being read to you. For me I think it is really two stories, that of Charlie gaining an intelligence and surpassing his peers and then the world at large, second of…
Of Rainbows and Rabbit Holes
July 3, 2006 Monday It seems that the Yellowbrick Road is not as straight a path as it let on. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as sat in my bunk’s small metal box, waiting to be read for almost two months, but I resisted, going for supposedly meatier fare. After all it’s a children story, a…
Ironclad
First, now that I have finished some, thoughts on The Red Tent: Anita Diamant treats each character fairly and compassionately. The only real villain so far, up to the second part has been Laban. The weaving the ties and bindings of the family, the fights and feuds of Leah and Rachel, are very well…
Bedeviled by “Devil”
written August 6, 2011 What are we to do with something like Devil in the White City? It’s won an award for Best Fact Crime, and labeled as History, but reads with enough dramatic, pulpy push that it could be taken to the beach. It’s this tension between professional and lay you put your…
“Of Mice and Flowers”
* A revisit to Flowers for Algernon, one of my favorite novels, from a slightly different perspective. bookriport 1 martch 5 Iam so luky my rabits foot must realy be working. Not only am I mabe going to get an opurashun to make me smart but Miss Kinnian is helping me with speshul school…
