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Monthly Archives: October 2016
Inscription: Baby’s First Book
Dear ____, This is a book. You may think it is a sandwich with words. It is not. It is something better. Do it right and they will take you everywhere. Still, feel free to eat it if you get … Continue reading
Posted in Nonfiction, Something Else
Tagged babies, baby, books, inscription, knowledge, literacy, parenthood, sandwich, sandwiches with words, teething, words, youth
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Alpha & Omega
“I love her and that is the beginning and end of everything.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Posted in Something Else
Tagged 42, baby, beginning, birthday, end, everything, fatherhood, first birthday, joy, Life, Love, meaning, parenthood
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Book Review: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Initially, I wasn’t sure how well this book was going to work. It supposedly dealt with the same existential issues as Dandelion Wine, but simultaneously tells a story meant to inspire horror. Obviously, it’s possible, it’s just a tricky business … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, fiction, Review
Tagged Bradbury, classics, demons, fantasy, horror, monsters, Ray Bradbury, sci-fi, science fiction, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Supernatural
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Pieces from the Novel #1: Neon Soul
Watching the cabs fold into the horizon of the city, something squeezes me, knocking against the comfortable fog of the alcohol. I feel it, an uneasy melancholy begging to be let out, to be thought, considered, felt. I steel myself against … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Fiction
Tagged A novel someday, alcohol, contentment, Dreams Away, excerpt, happiness, ice cream, Japan, Japanese, night life, perfect, pieces from the novel, wandering, writing
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Book Review: Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
I didn’t expect this book. Perhaps, more accurately it was Ray Bradbury I didn’t expect. Way back in school I had read a short story of his in some slim anthology of stories about I-don’t-know-what. What I do remember is … Continue reading
Book Review: A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
There are a great many things to hate about high society and I’m not just saying that as a plebeian proletariat. From decadence to the disconnect they seem to feel with the rest of humanity, there is no shortage of … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Review
Tagged a woman of no importance, british literature, classics, drama, high society, humor, Love, oscar wilde, play, plays, sexual power, society
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Book Review: Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde
Have you ever had someone you love scream over while you try to explain away something a gossipy middle-aged women told her in your drawing room? No? Me neither. In fact, if someone that claimed to love me refused to … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Review
Tagged classics, drama, heartache, humor, Lady Windermere's Fan, Love, oscar wilde, paradox, play, plays, romance, truth
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Book Review: The Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
Plays are a tricky thing to my mind. You inexorably tied to the patience of the audience and thereby you are forbidden from going over a certain number of pages or overcomplicating your narrative. I’m struggled to find a playwrights … Continue reading
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Tagged british literature, classics, drama, humor, morality, oscar wilde, paradox, play, plays, politics, romance, society, theatre
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Book Review: Hiroshima by John Hersey
This is an excellent book to start with if you are curious about the bombing of Hiroshima and have little historical context for it. As it stands though the book falls a bit flat on a historical narrative and instead … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Nonfiction, Review
Tagged Atomic Bomb, classics, hersey, hiroshima, Japan, Japanese, john hersey, journalism, Nagasaki, Nuclear Bomb, war, World War II
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Book Review: Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente
I have a feeling that nothing Valente ever publishes will be what one would term as ‘bad’. Her grasp of language is too strong, it’s poetry too perfect. Evocative while rarely trending towards purple, she captures even the most basic … Continue reading
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Tagged american literature, catherynne m. valente, deathless, fantasy, fiction, literature, magic, myth, mythology, neil gaiman, poetry, Susanna Clarke, valente
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