Name: Carole McDonnell
Dateline: Peekskill, NY
Weblog: www.darkparables.blogspot.com
Articles: 30
First Published: Friday, March 23, 2007
Last Published: Thursday, August 28, 2008
Currently listing articles 30-1:
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Interview with Matt Bernstein Sycamore, Gay Activist and Author of So Many Ways To Sleep Badly— All of my work is about trying to fight against cultural homelessness, trying to create some sense of hope in a world that really isn't
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Book Review: Seaborn by Chris Howard— "Seaborn" is no regular fantasy about mermaids. It is an epic, created with a linguist’s, a sociologist’s, and a poet’s touch.
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Summer 2008 Political Fiction, Real World and Otherwise— Why do these books have politics as a subtext? Maybe because it's a political year - or maybe some strange force led me to them.
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Book Review: Sleep Before Evening by Magdalena Ball — So often angsty teenagers are clichéd or unlikable or they just seem plain unreal. Here, however, the author does a good job.
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Book Review: The Hidden Dangers of Soy by Diane Gregg— The book is filled with well-researched articles, website resources, and much anecdotal evidence.
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Book Review: Gypsy Tears - Loving a Holocaust Survivor by Cora Schwartz— This is a book needed for such a time as this, as the last holocaust survivors die and their stories remain untold...
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Interview with Geralyn Beauchamp, Author of Time Masters Book One: The Call— If you love time travel novels, and stories about destined lovers who must be brought together to save the world, this fantasy novel is for
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The Leaden Echo of The Golden Compass— There is something about The Golden Compass that feels passed down, unexperienced, untrue, and, well, old.
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An Interview with Norma Lehmeier Hartie, Author of Harmonious Environment— You can create a beautiful, healthy home while treading lightly on Mother Earth.
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An Interview With Mystery and Fantasy Author Carole Nelson Douglas— When publishing is your livelihood, every year seems a difficult career period.
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The Farthest Frontiers: An Interview with Two Writers of Marginalized Speculative Fiction — Christian and multicultural speculative fiction is considered to be marginalized — some thoughts on the issue from two writers outside the mainstream.
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Interview with Sylvia Kelso: Feminist, speculative fiction writer, and author of Amberlight, Part Two— "One thing I dislike ... is the way the average published fantasy has been dumbed down over the last decade or so."
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Interview with Sylvia Kelso: Feminist, Speculative Fiction Writer, Author of Amberlight, Part One
— Kelso talks about her background and her book, which she describes as, "A city. A mystery. An impossible love affair."
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The Rock of Love Girls vs. The Flavor of Love Girls: Desperation, Money, and Fame— They talk the talk and hug the poles, but are they true rock chicks?
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TV Review: The Kill Point - Brothers in Life and Crime— In a really satisfying heist film, the viewer's complicity in the crime becomes problematic because the bad guys are truly not so very bad.
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Movie Review: Live Free or Die Hard, For Your Hormonal Viewing Pleasure— It’s never too late to understand what makes cool American guys tick.
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Honor and Race— Applauding the integrity of Christian Blacks.
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A Tale of Two Trials: American Media, American Justice, American Tragedy— The media's focus on entertainment at the expense of real news serves no one, and hurts the least empowered members of society.
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Atheists and Their Ignorant Fury Against Faith-Based Charities— Evil religious people will use “charity” to preach their faith and break down the wall between church and state, or at least so the godless
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Book Review: Fever in the Blood by Robert Fleming— The protagonist will try many readers...
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Avoidable Accidents, Untaught Lessons: The Non-Existent Manual for School Chaperones — At my school was a teacher who was always meaning to write a book on what school trip chaperones needed to know.
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My People, Not My People— What would America be like if we stopped dividing ourselves into different camps?
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Interview with Todd Fink of The Giving Tree Band— This acoustic band, whose name is inspired by the Shel Silverstein book, practices what they preach.
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Immigration and My Personal, Cultural Panic Attack — Maybe it's not racism I see but the fear that occurs when one is in a strange place among strangers who might resent one's presence.
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TV Review: Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School – Redemption, The True Self, and Learning How to Play The Con— Television, unfortunately, is notoriously unreal.
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American Idol - A New Spin On Song Choice - Putting Your Belief Where Your Tune Is— What exactly is singing? Isn’t it a celebration of what one feels in the deepest part of one’s life?
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American Idol's LaKisha - Emulation, Competition, Self-Expression, and Vanity— Last night’s American Idol confirmed once and for all why I simply do not like LaKisha.
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Black Beauty, Media Racism, and My Great Compromise— Everyone is inundated with the idea that the best kind of beauty is close to some Nordic Ideal.
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Face It American Idol Rejects, the Audience Just Wasn’t Into You— You American Idol losers should just accept this sad fact: you just weren’t good enough.
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TV Review: The First 48 - Ain't Nothin' Like The Real Thing— The best cop show ever.
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