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I look at Dostoevsky's book The Gambler - a novella looking at the effects that obsessive gambling has on people (among other things).by meep
I look at the Renaissance Popes as profiled in Barbara Tuchman's The March of Folly.by meep
I review Yevgeny Zamyatin's sci-fi dystopia We, and there's a bonus video of a fancy new toy we've got.by meep
One has often heard of the mystery niche called “cozies”.
Cozy mysteries, also referred to as “cozies”, are a subgenre of crime fiction in which sex and violence are downplayed or treated humorously, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community. Cozies thus stand...
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Two important books are currently free in kindle format on Amazon, until Saturday, September 2:
TO BUILD A CASTLE BY VLADIMIR BUKOVSKY
I’ve reviewed this book in a few posts:
Never Forget: Thoughts on To Build A Castle – a Dissident Memoir by Vladimir Bukovsky
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Let’s hear from some who know:
“Sometimes ironic, sometimes detached, sometimes written in cold fury, but always compelling.” —The New Yorker
“This is a landmark book and a human document that remains vital.” —Sir Tom Stoppard, Oscar-winning screenwriter of Shakespeare in Love
“Vladimir Bukovsky has written an extraordinary account of his life...
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One of these things is not like the other….
…oh wait, it’s totally like the other things.
Before I begin, thanks to my recent linkers:
Howdy to my facebook fans interested in my Kentucky posts! There sure are...
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This is not a full review; not yet. Here is a link to the current US Amazon listing for the book; I will be re-posting a cleaned-up review later this year. I mentioned the specific project to publish an e-book English version of this book, and I await...
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A review of the book Trump the Press: Don Surber's take on how the pundits blew the 2016 Republican race...thoughts on the problem of confimation bias in making predictionsby meep
Chris Hitchens once wrote a piece on how women aren’t funny.
But after having read a couple of supposedly humorous books based on Hitchens’ own reviews/recommendations, I get his point.
Men are overawed, not to say terrified, by the ability of women to produce babies....
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