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For the past three years, I’ve paid for the privilege of voting in the Hugo Awards. I do this not because I love voting in the Hugo Awards (though that’s cool) but because, for the past few years, they have made available a voter packet containing...
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"You might look at Davis's The Course of Honor, which recounts Vespasian's relationship with the freedwoman Caenis.
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I read some series like River Song travels with the Doctor: out of order. I’ve dipped and dallied with various books in the Falco series, but most recently I read
Venus in Copper
before going back to the source, Falco #1: The Silver Pigs. Here we...
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June 9, 2013
It's a sad day for me. I won't speak for anyone else on the passing of Iain (M.) Banks. I will only speak for myself, and for myself this is a sad, sad day. I came to Banks circuitously. A close friend of mine was teaching Wasp Factory... " Read more of this review » |
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I found it hard to decide what to make of The China Lover. Largely because, I feel, it can't decide what to make of itself.
As a biographical novel of Yoshiko Yamaguchi, it is not a great success. The novel is written as three separate stories of... " Read more of this review » |
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“Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced”
― Barbara W. Tuchman
― Barbara W. Tuchman
“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.”
― Anton Chekhov
― Anton Chekhov
“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.”
― Willa Cather
― Willa Cather
“There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.”
― James Branch Cabell
― James Branch Cabell
The Ogre of Merryblossom (Children's Books)
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A short story/bedtime tale I wrote for my nieces for Christmas.
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