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Book Review: ‘The Life and Times of Le Bronco von der Löwenhöhle: Stories and Tips from Thirteen Years with a Leonberger’

Dec 14, 2022

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in Book Reviews, Books, The Life and Times of Le Bronco von der Löwenhöhle: Stories and Tips from Thirteen Years with a Leonberger, Thomas Wikman

Reviewer’s Note: Thomas Wikman is one of my long-time online friends from Epinions, a now-defunct review site where we both wrote product reviews. Additionally, I adapted this review from an original version that I wrote on the book’s Amazon product page. “Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent.…

Book Review: ‘The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11’

Sep 25, 2022

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Alex Diaz-Granados

in Books, Garrett M. Graff, Oral History, September 11, 2001 Attacks, The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11, U.S. History, Watergate: A New History

We have some planes. – Mohammad Atta, Hijacker I look at the clock, and every time I look at the clock, it seems to be 9:11. I’m like, “Oh, 9:11 again.” It just happens, something so simple like that. – Sharon Miller, Officer, Port Authority Police Department (PAPD) On September 10, 2019, Avid Reader Press…

Book Review: ‘The Third World War: The Untold Story’

Sep 21, 2022

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Alex Diaz-Granados

in Alternative History (Alt History), Books, Cold War (1945-1991), Cold War-Turns-Hot Games, Computer and Video Games, General Sir John Hackett, MicroProse Software, Military Fiction, Red Storm Rising (1986 novel), Regiments (2022), Team Yankee: A Novel of World War III, The Third World War: August 1985, The Third World War: The Untold Story (1982), Tom Clancy (author), U.S. History

Dies Irae: The Story Continues…. In early 1982, Sidgwick & Jackson of London and Macmillan Publishing of New York published The Third World War: The Untold Story, a war novel co-written by General Sir John Hackett and seven collaborators, many of whom had co-written The Third World War: August 1985, published four years earlier and,…

Book Review: ‘The Third World War: August 1985’

Sep 15, 2022

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Alex Diaz-Granados

in Bird's Eye Games, Book Reviews, Books, Cold War-Turns-Hot Games, Computer and Video Games, MicroProse Software, Red Storm Rising, Red Storm Rising (1986 novel), Regiments (2022), The Third World War: August 1985, Tom Clancy (author)

On May 1, 1978, London-based Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd. published The Third World War: August 1985: A Future History, a work of near-future speculative fiction by Sir John Hackett, a retired general in the British Army, and a group of co-authors that, according to the publisher, included an admiral, an economist, and a diplomat, all…

Book Review: ‘SSN’ (originally published as ‘SSN: Strategies of Submarine Warfare’)

May 29, 2022

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Alex Diaz-Granados

in Amazon, Book Reviews, Books, Cold Waters, Computer and Video Games, SSN (Tom Clancy novel)

The Inspiration: Tom Clancy’s SSN On November 16, 1996, Simon & Schuster Interactive released Tom Clancy’s SSN, a computer video game/submarine simulator based on the Improved Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered attack sub USS Cheyenne (SSN-773). Co-produced by Clancy Interactive Entertainment and Virtus Corporation, SSN was a single-player third-person perspective game set in what was then the…

Book Review: ‘The Lions of Leningrad’ (2022)

Apr 18, 2022

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Alex Diaz-Granados

in Books, Dead Reckoning/Naval Institute Press, Military Fiction, Military History, Russia and U.S.-Russia Relations, Russia-Ukraine Crisis of 2022, The Lions of Leningrad (2022), World War II (1939-1945)

Title: The Lions of Leningrad (2022) Written by: Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem Art by: Thomas Du Caju Translated by: Joseph Laredo Publisher: Dead Reckoning (an imprint of the Naval Institute Press) Reviewer’s Note: I received a copy of The Lions of Leningrad from the publisher in exchange for an honest review of this compilation book, with…

Book Review: ‘West Side Story: The Making of the Steven Spielberg Film’

Mar 12, 2022

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Alex Diaz-Granados

in Book Reviews, Films by Steven Spielberg, Laurent Bouzerau, Movies, West Side Story (2021), West Side Story: The Making of the Steven Spielberg Film

West Side Story: The Making of the Steven Spielberg Film Author: Laurent Bouzerau Illustrations: 20th Century Studios Pages: 256 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Publication Date: November 16, 2021 TONY KUSHNER (screenwriter executive producer): Steven is an artist, first and foremost. Everything he makes comes from a deeply personal place; there’s great heart in his work,…

Book Review: ‘Apollo Explorations of the Moon: The NASA History – 50th Anniversary Edition’

Oct 7, 2021

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Alex Diaz-Granados

in Apollo Expeditions to the Moon: The NASA History – 50th Anniversary Edition, Book Reviews, Books, Project Apollo/Apollo Program, Space Exploration, U.S. History

There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well…

Book Review: ‘A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America’

Aug 25, 2021

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Alex Diaz-Granados

in A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America, Book Reviews, Books, Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America (2020 hardcover, 2021 paperback) Written by: Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig Publisher: Penguin Press (a division of Penguin Random House) Category: Domestic Politics Format: Paperback No. of Pages: 512 Publication Date: Hardcover: January 21, 2020; Paperback (Updated with New Reporting): February 23, 2021 “This taut and terrifying…

Memories of a College Journalist: Promotions & Reviews

Aug 23, 2021

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Alex Diaz-Granados

in Blogging, Book Reviews, Books, College Life, Life in Florida, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami-Dade Community College, Personal Thoughts, Student Journalist, Tom Clancy (author)

Greetings, Dear Reader. It’s early afternoon here in New Hometown, Florida on Monday, August 23, 2021. It’s hot and sticky outside. The current temperature is 85˚F (29˚C) under sunny skies. With humidity at 60% and the wind blowing at a weak 1 MPH (1 KM/H) from the south-southwest, it feels like 94˚F (34˚C). Today’s forecast…

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