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Book Review: Everybody Wants To Rule The World, by Dan Abnett
Blurb Hydra has a synthetic pathogen that will make the entire human race dependent on them for the cure. A.I.M.’s newly developed nanotech compound to enslave humanity is dangerously close to contaminating the world’s water supplies. Ultron is poised on the edge of Singularity, Earth’s technology at his metallic fingertips. Dormammu has a plan to save the world – by claiming it as his own. The High Evolutionary is rewriting the human genome in a bid to turn humankind into a eugenic slave-race. Everybody wants to rule the world – and only the isolated Avengers can stop them. Review This … Continue reading Book Review: Everybody Wants To Rule The World, by Dan Abnett
Mental Health Days, The Music Version
A new Turnpike Troubadours album dropped today. I had it playing on a loop pretty much all day today. At one point, I caught myself getting annoyed. Work was distracting me from being capable of focusing and listen with intent. Then a thought popped into my head. It would be nice if you could take a day off when a favorite band puts out a new album. Of course, there would have to be a system in place to avoid abuse. What would the ground rules be? What I came up with: You keep a file on hand with whatever … Continue reading Mental Health Days, The Music Version
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Mules Softball vs. NCOE, Olney
Book Review: Freaky Deaky, by Elmore Leonard
Blurb Over-the-hill former counter-culture SDS revolutionaries decide to turn bomb-making—and detonating—from a political statement to a profitable enterprise in the master Elmore Leonard’s electrifying and explosively funny thriller Freaky Deaky. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch calls Leonard, “the world’s greatest cops ‘n’ robbers novelist.” The Seattle Times says, “Leonard is more than just one of the all-time greats of crime fiction. He’s fast becoming an authentic American icon.” No matter where you wish to place the man who created the character of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, lately of TV’s hit series Justified, in the pantheon of mystery and noir detective fiction demigods—John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James … Continue reading Book Review: Freaky Deaky, by Elmore Leonard
Book Review: The Iliad, Graphic Novel
Blurb In a companion volume to his award-winning adaptation of The Odyssey, the incomparable graphic novelist Gareth Hinds masterfully adapts Homer’s classic wartime epic. More than three thousand years ago, two armies faced each other in an epic battle that rewrote history and came to be known as the Trojan War. The Iliad, Homer’s legendary account of this nine-year ordeal, is considered the greatest war story of all time and one of the most important works of Western literature. In this stunning graphic novel adaptation — a thoroughly researched and artfully rendered masterwork — renowned illustrator Gareth Hinds captures all the grim glory of … Continue reading Book Review: The Iliad, Graphic Novel
Mules Baseball vs. Teutopolis, Olney
Book Review: Deacon King Kong, by James McBride
Blurb Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction Winner of the Gotham Book Prize One of Barack Obama’s “Favorite Books of the Year” Oprah’s Book Club Pick New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Named one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and TIME Magazine A Washington Post Notable Novel From the author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water, comes one of the most celebrated novels of the year. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as … Continue reading Book Review: Deacon King Kong, by James McBride
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