Category: Books
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Book Talk: ‘Old Friends in the Bookshelves’, or: Books That I Love to Revisit Again and Again
“Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.”― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords If you are a true bibliophile or, as Stephen King likes to call his loyal fans, a Constant Reader, chances are that you have in your personal library one…
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Book Review: ‘The Star Wars Archives: Episodes I-III, 1999-2005’
Movies are an illusion. Cinema is the art of the moving image; the moving image isn’t more truthful than are cave paintings, or hieroglyphics, or the Sistine Chapel. What the artist finds is the truth behind the “truth.” Art portrays the aspirations of the society in which it is made.- George Lucas, The Star Wars…
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Book Talk: ‘The Star Wars Archives: Episodes I-III, 1999-2005’….Look at the Size of that Book!
Hi again, Dear Reader. It’s now late afternoon and heading into early evening here in New Hometown, Florida. Currently, it’s 63˚F (17˚C) under cloudy skies. With the wind blowing from the west-northwest at 13 MPH (21 KM/H) and humidity at 63%, the feels-like temperature is 63˚F (17˚C). The light that attempting to stream through my…
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Book Talk: My Favorite Alternative History Books
Hey there, Dear Reader. It’s Monday, January 4, 2021, and it is almost noon here in New Hometown, Florida. A cold front must have passed through the area last night; the current temperature is 57˚F (15˚C) under sunny skies. With the wind blowing from the north-northeast at 5 MPH (9 KM/H) and humidity at 55%,…
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, January 3, 2021, or: My Sunday Reading Adventures
Hi, there, Dear Reader. It’s almost noon here on Sunday, January 3, 2021, and it’s a gray, chilly day here in New Hometown, Florida. Currently, the temperature is 61˚F (16˚C) under cloudy skies. With the wind blowing from the north at 3 MPH (5 KM/H) and humidity at 100%, the feels-like temperature is 61˚F (16˚C).…
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Musings & Thoughts for Saturday, January 2, 2021, or: Meet the New Year…Same as the Old Year
Hi there, Dear Reader. It’s Saturday, January 2, 2021, and it is early afternoon here in New Hometown, Florida. Right now, the temperature is 81˚F (27˚C) under mostly cloudy skies. With humidity at 66% and the wind blowing from the south-southwest at 8 MPH (13 KM/H), the heat index is 83˚F (28˚C). Today’s forecast calls…
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Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, December 29, 2020, or: More Books for My TBR Pile!
Hello, there, Dear Reader. It’s just past noon here on Tuesday, December 29, 2020, and it’s “seasonably” cool in New Hometown, Florida. The current temperature is 73˚F (23˚C) under sunny skies. With humidity at 50% and the wind blowing at 8 MPH (13 KM/H) from the east-northeast, the feels-like temperature is 73˚F (23˚C. According to…
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Book Review: ‘The Battle of Midway’
On October 5, 2011, Oxford University Press published Craig L. Symonds’ The Battle of Midway, one of the 18 books in the Pivotal Moments in American History series, which is edited by David Hackett Fischer, James M. McPherson, and David Greenberg. Based on exhaustive research and drawing on a cornucopia of new revelations about the…
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Book Review: ‘From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back
On November 10, Del Rey Books – an imprint of Penguin Random House – published From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back, a collection of 39 short stories and one cartoon that depict events from Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back from the perspectives of various supporting characters. Created by…
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Musings & Thoughts for Thursday, November 5, 2020, or: Trying to Get Back into the Swing of NaNoWriMo 2020…and Other Trivial Thoughts
Hi there, Dear Reader. It’s late morning here in New Hometown, Florida on Thursday, November 5, 2020. The current temperature is 78˚F (25˚C) under sunny skies. With the wind blowing from the east-northeast at 10 MPH (16 KM/H) and humidity at 73%, the feels-like temperature is 78˚F (25˚C). Today’s forecast calls for partly sunny skies,…
A Certain Point of View, Too 