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Book Review: Sand of the Arena by James Duffy
A cheerful adventure tale is leavened with solid research that will leave you able to distinguish between a retiarius and a murmillo.
Read More »Book Review: The Lincoln Lawyer
When he is good, Connelly is really good. But this book is inferior to his other works.
Read More »Book Review: Godless by Pete Hautman
A novel aimed at tweens and young teens allows anyone to fairly consider the issues involved in challenges to and rebellions against faith and religion.
Read More »Book Review: mental_floss Presents: Forbidden Knowledge
mental_floss magazine extends its quirky and entertaining approach to fascinating facts and information to book form and "forbidden knowledge."
Read More »Book Review: Very Thai – Everyday Popular Culture by Philip Cornwel-Smith
Bangkokitis is an extreme form of the culture shock that many tourists experience in foreign lands, magnified by the discordant meeting of modernity and tradition.
Read More »Book Review: Jesus Land
A harrowing memoir of racism, religion and dysfunction in a midwestern Christian family.
Read More »Book Review: Clapton’s Guitar Allen St. John
"Well you get a pile of really nice wood and a sharp whittling knife...carve away everything that isn't a guitar"
Read More »Book Review: Which Is More Round, The World Or Your Tummy? by Leslie Miklosy
Offbeat reflections on serious living.
Read More »Book Review: Serenity
A film novelization showing the different qualities inherent in the written word and the visual form.
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