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Hide Me Among the Graves

Hide Me Among the Graves

by Tim Powers 528 pages; $25.99 I was absolutely thrilled to receive a review copy of the newest book by one of my favorite authors. I probably squealed with glee! I have been a fan of Tim Powers' ever since I picked up a copy of Dinner at

The Magic Goes Away

by Larry Niven $2.25; 218 pages A With Both Hands mini-review This is the first book I have ever read solely authored by Larry Niven. I'm a big fan of his collaborations with Jerry Pournelle. They have a great partnership. So I decided to try Niven at

Burning City and Burning Tower Book Review

Burning City and Burning Tower Book Review

By Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle I avoided these particular books for quite some time due to their unusual premise: Los Angeles in an age of magic. I shouldn't have waited; these books are everything I like about Niven and Pournelle, a big cast of characters in a

RIP John Christopher

Author John Christopher died last Friday. I can remember reading his Tripod books as a boy, I wish I had known then that he was so prolific! He wrote a number of books under the name John Christopher, and a number under other psuedonyms. I never knew til now that

How Culturally Isolated are you?

How Culturally Isolated are you?

Via DarwinCatholic, How Thick is Your Bubble? How Thick Is Your Bubble? Guest Score » 10 out of 20 (50% ) Result On a scale from 0 to 20 points, where 20 signifies full engagement with mainstream American culture and 0 signifies deep cultural isolation within the new upper class bubble, you

The New American Divide

Charles Murray is taking a tour of the opinion pages, stumping for his new book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010. I've been looking forward to this book for some time now. Murray is arguing that Americans of all classes used to share a common civic

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