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Four Stars–From Each According to Her Ability. The worlds that provide the settings for one of sci-fi maestra Ursula K. Le Guin’s best known novels, The Dispossessed, are Anarres—the smaller of…
Literary Paranormal Fiction - 5 Stars! Caveat: If you begin reading A Twist of Karma at bedtime, you risk losing a night’s sleep. Novels containing paranormal scenes or experiences achieve…
I give it 5 Stars! Magnificent The View is a totally original and brilliant novel. I disagree with the publisher's assessment that to the profound, provocative, and poignant narrator, Carl Anderson,…
Five Stars! The Benefits of Epiphany Writing a book review requires me to think more deeply about the book than I otherwise would. This is why for me, writing a book…
I give it 5 Stars! Life imitating Art imitating Life In the Poetics, circa 335 BCE, Aristotle famously promulgated his rules of art, each of which rests upon this foundation: art…
Five Stars – Timely and Timeless! When novels meaningfully portray current events, like the novels of Charles Dickens set in then contemporary London, we call them timely. When they communicate topics…
I give "Jerry with a Twist" 5 Stars! Jerry, a talented but out-of-work actor, confronts a dilemma that unrelentingly twists his life—cognitively, emotionally, even physically at virtually every step. He’s been…
Reviewed by James Victor Jordan : Five Stars! Paul Gauguin famously inscribed on his best-known painting its title: D’où Venons Nous/ Que Sommes Nous/ Où Allons Nous—Where Do We Come From?…
Here is a new song by Craig Reeder of Hot Tamale, an awesome folk-rock band we’ve been privileged to feature before. This music video, a satire, I suppose, brought an immediate…
Five Stars! Pestilence Then and Now The Plague was first published in 1946. Eleven years later, its author, Albert Camus, became the youngest person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in…