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The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

A With Both Hands Mini-review The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum is a book so famous it is almost forgotten. That sounds like it should be impossible, but what I mean is that the story's very popularity has ensured that the plot and characters are enshrined

John the Balladeer by Manly Wade Wellman

John the Balladeer by Manly Wade Wellman

A With Both Hands Mini-review Silver John, or John the Balladeer, is Manly Wade Wellman's Southern folk hero. John tramps the ridges and hollows of Appalachia, bringing song and the Gospel wherever he goes. John is a poor and humble man. He places his trust in the Lord,

Bright movie mini-review

Bright movie mini-review

Will Smith's 2017 movie Bright was an early example of a big disparity between audience scores and professional reviewers, although in this case the audience only found it "okay", while often now the phenomenon produces outsized positive audience scores just to be contrary. I watched this

A Vital Breath Book Review

The spirit-world around this world of sense Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere Wafts through these earthly mists and vapours dense A vital breath of more ethereal air. —Haunted Houses, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A With Both Hands Mini-Review Paxton Locke is back, not much older, but hopefully much wiser than

Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry

A With Both Hands Mini-Review The initial Joe Ledger novel stuck out to me in 2009 as an interesting combination of Islamic millennialism and the zombie genre. Fourteen years later, one of the most interesting theories I have come across for why shambling hordes took over popular entertainment in the