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Back to Delphi (Book Review) 24 Apr 2013 | 10:19 am
Viv Koleva is a terse and focused greek widow in her fifties. She lives in Athens and cares for the elderly in a hospice capacity. Her son is in prison but has been granted a five day leave to visit w...
Moments Captured (Book Review) 15 Apr 2013 | 08:18 pm
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I Will Have Vengeance (Book Review) 8 Apr 2013 | 07:26 pm
Normal.dotm 0 0 1 277 1581 School 13 3 1941 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false In his first book, I Will Have Vengeance, Italian crime novelist Maurizio De Giovanni rev...
Heifetz Collection No. 44 26 Mar 2013 | 09:39 am
Normal.dotm 0 0 1 426 2431 School 20 4 2985 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false I thought I’d be able to remember, with slightly better clarity, the shelf I pulled this ...
Shadows of the Past 25 Mar 2013 | 11:39 pm
Normal.dotm 0 0 1 271 1550 School 12 3 1903 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false In 1929 and 1936, for the purposes of nourishing the archive, 16mm moving images were tak...
Nitpicky Nerdism (What I've decided about recent Doctor Who) 28 Mar 2012 | 03:22 pm
(possible spoilers) Now that I'm completely current on the last 6 series of Doctor Who I'm comfortable finally weighing in on which incarnation I prefer. And, not surprising if you know me, in my min...
The Hunger Games: An Existential Consideration 28 Mar 2012 | 05:37 am
Satre suggests that when we step to the edge of a high precipice the fear we have is not of falling but of jumping. We are suddenly faced with the implications of our freedom to choose and do not trus...
Election Year Meditation 18 Mar 2012 | 11:34 am
A Word to Progressives: Just because the future is inevitable doesn’t mean it’s not mistaken. A Word to Conservatives: Just because the past was comfortable doesn’t make it correct. A Word to Ever...
Advanced Economics 23 Jan 2012 | 04:31 pm
Take your chest in your hand again Stop for now the rising thudding That means there’s still a little more to own Lay down on silk sheets the blood and muddy Stuck layer complaints they mention on...
NIGHT THIRST 15 Nov 2011 | 10:49 am
I wake without my memories When I alone on nights I’ve slept and my throat is dry Creaking, the night air Evaporates my past in mind like Beads of fragile moisture And the vapor escapes of lover...