Friday, June 20, 2025

Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Final Girls by Riley Sager by Karen S. Wiesner

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  Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Final Girls by Riley Sager by Karen S. Wiesner     Final Girls was publis...
Thursday, June 19, 2025

Actors' Looks and Suspension of Disbelief

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THE MUSIC MAN (1962) is one of my favorite musical films. (I just ignore the unlikelihood of a happily-ever-after for Harold Hill and Marian...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Rumors and Ripple Effects

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Last week, my blog post was suppressed, which is not unusual. I poke the AI bear like a short-sighted proctologist from time to time. The ri...
Friday, June 13, 2025

Karen S. Wiesner: {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Genius of Leonardo Da Vinci by Barrington Barber

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{Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Genius of Leonardo Da Vinci by Barrington Barber by Karen S. Wiesner Leonardo Da Vinc...
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Thursday, June 12, 2025

Variations on Peter Pan

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The Disney animated PETER PAN, to nobody's surprise I'm sure, softens and lightens the source material. Generations of children who...
Sunday, June 08, 2025

Shooting An Elephant

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"Shooting An Elephant" by George Orwell is a powerful essay that was originally published in the compilation "Inside The Whal...
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Friday, June 06, 2025

{Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: "The Oblivion Bride" by Caitlin Starling by Karen S. Wiesner

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  {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: "The Oblivion Bride" by Caitlin Starling by Karen S. Wiesner     "The Oblivion...
Thursday, June 05, 2025

Graduations

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Earlier this week we attended the high-school graduation of one of our grandsons. (Summa cum laude!) Recently I read a joke somewhere to the...
Friday, May 30, 2025

Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Warriors Anthology Edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois by Karen S. Wiesner

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  Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Warriors Anthology Edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois...
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Thursday, May 29, 2025

The Power of Stories

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The blog of fantasy author Deborah J. Ross, "In Troubled Times," includes a post on the healing function of stories: How Stories...
Saturday, May 24, 2025

Not What He Meant

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I hang out on a prolific, partisan news-discussion site, and it is obvious to some of the commentators that inferior Ai is being used, and a...
Friday, May 23, 2025

Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Terror by Dan Simmons by Karen S. Wiesner

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  Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Terror by Dan Simmons by Karen S. Wiesner     Be aware tha...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Yesterday's Tomorrow

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Another glance at some futuristic inventions from fiction that have come into real existence, in this case from the cartoon series THE JETSO...
Saturday, May 17, 2025

By No Means Nostril Shots

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As is my wont, (or good habit), I check the meanings of words in my titles or works about which I mean to "snark". It appears that...
Friday, May 16, 2025

{Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: "Caver, Continue" by Caitlin Starling by Karen S. Wiesner

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  {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: "Caver, Continue" by Caitlin Starling by Karen S. Wiesner   Back in June 2023...