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A Milestone Post

This is blog post number 1100 for me. I started this blog in 2021 not quite sure where it would go. Over the years I’ve varied the number of posts that I wrote. 2022 was a big year coming off the second year of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic (COVID). WHo knows what this year will bringContinue reading “A Milestone Post”

Book Reviews

For the past few weeks I’ve been reading a lot. Right now I’m a bit slow as I recently had a tetanus shot and the most recent COVID vaccine. So here’s what I’ve read. This was an interesting fantasy read. It’s the story of a young woman who inherits an interesting bookstore. It’s also aboutContinue reading “Book Reviews”

Book Review Revisited

The other day I wrote about reading Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov. But never commented on any of the writings that were in it. So here goes. There were 21 short stories covering a variety of subjects. Some themes tied together many of the stories. For instance besides robots, there was multivac, a mega-computer. ThenContinue reading “Book Review Revisited”

Some book reviews

I am working my way through a bunch of old Christopher Moore books. Recently I’ve re-red all of the books that take place in Pine Cove. Practical Demonkeeping is the first book that takes place in Pine Cove, California. The story involves a demon obviously, but also a djinn (genie). The rather humorous story, althoughContinue reading “Some book reviews”

Sacré Bleu

After reading Anima Rising I decided to re-read Moore’s other book relating to artists and the art world Sacré Bleu. If Anima Rising was a strange tale, Sacré Blue is even stranger. The book follows Lucien, a baker in Paris in the 1890s and the odd association with the pigment blue that artists are gettingContinue reading “Sacré Bleu”

Anima Rising

Well, another Christopher Moore book arrived and has been read. And as withh all of his books it was entertaining and funny (sometimes). Moore has the ability to interweave history and fiction successfully. In this book there are the many historical figures such as Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung among othersContinue reading “Anima Rising”