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Rating: ❤❤❤❤ “Biology and Giddyup.” As I embark on this review, I’m surprised by two things: ...

Rating: ❤❤❤ "A star of the first magnitude, he rose in the night of American slavery, ...

Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ First this, first that. Sometimes I’m impressed, often I’m not. Too many firsts. Maybe ...

Rating: ❤❤❤❤ (Throughout this spiel I use this symbol 💬 to denote quotations taken from word ...

(Images are property of United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Borrowed from Let's Face It, Charlie Brown ...

Rating: ❤❤❤❤ Swindon Wasn’t Peyton Place I discovered INXS before discovering XTC. I delighted in the ...

Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ There is all a woman in your compass, my poor sister.- Zenobia, The Blithedale ...

(I hadn't planned on spieling on this book, but I felt compelled to pump out ...

with John Bew, Martyn Frampton, Dan Jones and Claudia Renton Rating: ❤❤❤❤ Shakespeare’s Polonius said that ...

What else can one say about Ben Franklin? Quite a lot, I've found. Nick Bunker’s ...

Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ I hid myself within myself…and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows, and contempt ...

Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ "My dear young friend," said Mustapha Mond, "civilization has absolutely no need of nobility ...

David: I can’t tell you how delighted I was to discover Orson Welles and Roger ...

Rating: ❤❤❤❤ Brink, Kubrick, Click Life, thy name is Caprice. If there’s one thing that I ...

Rating: ❤❤❤❤ Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Unmasked: A Memoir is as colorful, vigorous, flamboyant and buoyant as ...

Rating: ❤❤❤❤ A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission. – Rush, “Mission” ...

Rating: ❤❤❤❤ I’m Timothy What’s His Name. - “The Seven Tongues of God” Guinea Pigs in ...

Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ I pray you, husband, be not so disquiet… - Katharina to Petrucio, The Taming ...

Rating: ❤❤❤❤ Born by Rape, Reborn by Rap I can’t prove it, but I swear that ...

Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ He used to say, over and over, every day he would put on his ...

Rating: ❤❤❤ I stick out like a surreal thumb… - Catherine, The Mismade Girl Foxy Shades ...

Rating: ❤❤❤❤ When I received Brad Parks’ new crime novel, Closer Than You Know, for review, I ...

According to the late dictator Fidel Castro, the Revolución Cubana’s legacy was almost blameless, constructive, ...

Rating: ❤❤❤❤ The life in us is like the water in the river. – Walden or, ...

Rating: ❤❤❤❤ “It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates ...

Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ Back when metal bands such as Iron Maiden ruled the 1980s I was already ...

Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ Team Friedman Though the genius Alan Turing deserves pity for the ultimately fatal persecution ...

Rating: ❤❤❤ Nowadays it takes almost everything in me to read fiction, and it takes even ...

Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ “One of Those Great Elemental Barbarians” Martin Luther wrote what might be the defining ...

Rating: ❤❤❤❤ I’m a feminist; I’m not a feminist. I’m an equity feminist, not a gender ...

In their struggle with "the wicked" the virtuous are often wicked too. - Nikolai Berdyaev, ...

The mention of William Jennings Bryan is more likely to arouse groans than applause these ...

Rating: ❤❤❤❤ Quite often, I become a fan of an artist more than her/his main art, ...

Lucy Pear. What a name. – Leaving Lucy Pear Rating: ❤❤❤❤ Fruitful Fiction For many years ...

Rating: ❤❤❤❤ Here’s a clue: My favorite fictional detectives are holding a pipe and a cigar, ...

Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the ...

Rating: ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ When I read Devery Anderson’s 2015 Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World ...

Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ Elvis was the Michael Jackson of his day. Or, rather, Michael Jackson was the ...

Rating: ❤❤❤❤ Nowadays, Lord Alfred Douglas’ “love that dare not speak its name” dares to speak ...

Rating: ❤❤❤❤ For me, the most sympathetic character in Alan Moore’s graphic-novel masterpiece, Watchmen, is Rorschach: ...

Rating: ❤❤❤❤ Norm Macdonald is a treasure. There. I said it. Ever since I saw his ...

Rating: ❤❤❤ If Thoreau perceived that humans led “lives of quiet desperation” way back in his ...

Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ Spouses of very famous people are usually seen as representatives or extensions – even ...

Rating: ❤❤❤ Though I love all kinds of visual art and consider myself somewhat of an ...