Thoughts on Living the Life Creative
This is "Banned Book Week", an annual campaign by the American Library Association and Amnesty International to increase awareness around banned and challenged books, celebrate the freedom to read and highlight persecuted individuals. This year I am doing a little highlighting of my own, with a favorite banned book each day. The list of books... Continue Reading →
This is "Banned Book Week", an annual campaign by the American Library Association and Amnesty International to increase awareness around banned and challenged books, celebrate the freedom to read and highlight persecuted individuals. This year I am doing a little highlighting of my own, with a favorite banned book each day. The list of books... Continue Reading →
This is "Banned Book Week", an annual campaign by the American Library Association and Amnesty International to increase awareness around banned and challenged books, celebrate the freedom to read and highlight persecuted individuals. This year I am doing a little highlighting of my own, with a favorite banned book each day. The list of books... Continue Reading →
This is "Banned Book Week", an annual campaign by the American Library Association and Amnesty International to increase awareness around banned and challenged books, celebrate the freedom to read and highlight persecuted individuals. This year I am doing a little highlighting of my own, with a favorite banned book each day. The list of books... Continue Reading →
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859) - Travelling from London to Paris at the time of the French Revolution, Dr. Manette is released after 18 years in prison. He is returned to the daughter he never knew with his mind badly broken by his imprisonment. She falls in love with a French nobleman... Continue Reading →
The Edinburgh Twilight - The Ian Hamilton Mysteries #1 by Carole Lawrence (2017) - A killer stalks the streets of Edinburgh, Scotland as the 20th century approaches. Detective Inspector Ian Hamilton will stalk the killer in a deadly conflict. It will strike fear into the heart of the city and touch on the detective's darkest... Continue Reading →
The Kennedy Imprisonment - A Meditation on Power by Garry Wills (1982) - Re-issued with a new preface, the book looks at the effect of the "Kennedy Mystique" on the President, his brothers and the Presidency itself. The Pulitzer Prize winning author rolls back the mythology and takes a clear, unflinching look at the realities of the... Continue Reading →
From My Shelves is a series of occasional posts that look at items from my personal collection to which I have a special attachment. Book of Lists (1977) - This book gets to lead the way because it really kicked a part of my life into high gear. I have always loved learning. One of... Continue Reading →
This is the first in a series of reviews of short story collections. All part of my careful campaign to bring short stories back to the respect they deserve. See "Focus on the Short Story" One More Thing - Stories and Other Stories by B.J. Novak (2014) - Last month's short story collection by Stephen... Continue Reading →
Son of the Revolution by K. Orion Fray (2017) - In a dystopic future not all that far away, some human beings have been changed. A government experiment didn't go the way they expected and a portion of the population was transformed into the semblance of vampires and werewolves. Now someone connected to the government... Continue Reading →
Stories Are My Life 