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DrPat is the blog signature used by an old coot who hoards books, dances Argentine Tango, cooks a mean venison chili, and is happy to be along for the sag while my spouse does a marathon bicycle ride. All that is in my spare time — and my work life is classified...
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Choosing Sides When You Cannot Choose Peace
Like Nancy Kress' brilliant and challenging Beggars in Spain, Crossfire explores how people relate to the "other" in their midst.
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Why the Winged Whale Flipped Us Off
Christopher Moore has tapped into the weird and wonderful in every book, and Fluke is no exception.
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Beating the (Magical) System
The Fairy Godmother not only gives us a fresh view of the obligatory happy ending, but successfully applys it to dozens of older tales.
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Making Mountain Magic
Three story collections in one book take us spelunking for the hard stuff among some strangely capable hill-folk.
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Dancing with a Nobel Laureate
Here is that joyful sense of discovery you remember from your childhood explorations of the world...
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Paradigms Up the Nose
Luca Turin follows his nose into how we tell smells apart—and smashes it into a solid paradigmatic wall...
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Consuming Posterity
Sheri Tepper's The Singer from the Sea is a strongly-stressed parable about consuming, presented as a Regency romance...
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That Bright Tunnel
What does lie beyond the bright tunnel seen in near-death-experiences? Willis' Passage is less an answer...
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