Saturday, June 28, 2025

Pon My Word

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Upon my word! Ten years --thank goodness-- after I was traditionally published with a concept of "rut rage" in my futuristic roman...
Friday, June 27, 2025

Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Mount Dragon by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child by Karen S. Wiesner

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  Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Mount Dragon by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child by Karen S. Wiesn...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

Rewriting Memories

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Well, sort of. A neuroscientist experiments with "zapping" brains to obliterate or at least modify negative memories: Neuroscien...
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...