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Book Review: The Charnel Prince – The Kingdoms Of Thorn and Bone, Book Two by Greg Keyes
Once you commit to The Kingdoms Of Thorn And Bone you won't be able to extricate yourself easily.
Read More »Book Review: Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert
A reporter's highly readable account of the role of mankind in climate change and its effects.
Read More »Book Review: Darkwood by J. Landon Ferguson
What seems to be a horror tale turns into a curious family saga.
Read More »Book Review: The Briar King: Book One of The Kingdoms Of Thorn And Bone by Grey Keyes
Nature spirits aren't gentle little creatures, they are fierce and care nothing for the wants and desires of humanity.
Read More »Book Review: In the Company of Ogres by A. Lee Martinez
Goblins and wizards and orcs, oh, my!
Read More »Book Review: Terrorist by John Updike
Resorting to stereotype and one-dimensional characters dooms John Updike's attempt to portray a homegrown American terrorist.
Read More »Book Review: 100 Ways America Is Screwing Up the World by John Tirman
Tirman's book may serve best as an introduction to America's path to its problems on the global stage.
Read More »Book Review: Regeneration – Species Imperative #3 by Julie Czerneda
You may want to pause in your reading to get your heart started again, or to remember how to breathe, but that's about it.
Read More »Book Review: Swooning Beauty: A Memoir of Pleasure by Joanna Frueh
A highly personal but intellectually sophisticated account from a 50-year-old woman that might be read as a manifesto for sex-positive, even body-positive, feminism.
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