I love a flashy futuristic spaceship as much as the next guy, but there’s something special about Ryan Howerter‘s modern weather satellite. Ryan has done a ridiculously accurate job of recreating the NASA / NOAA research satellite in LEGO, down to the last maneuvering thruster. I love the idea that every little detail on this […]
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Has science confirmed what the Buddha discovered? Read the excerpt from this book and decide for yourself! by Chris Niebauer, Ph.D. Is the self a fiction? Who are we? Why are we here? What does it mean to be human? Humans have grappled with these questions since time immemorial. Philosophers, spiritual leaders, scientists, and artists […]
Be careful when you roam at night. You never know what's lurking in the dark. Rumors of monsters feasting on human flesh arise. These monsters are called Demon...
“The day was sunny. I felt happy. The bees were buzzing. The Butterfly was in good order. Everything seemed fine.” And then it was not. Death By Betrayal: A Josiah Reynolds Mystery Book 20 by Abigail Keam is a tale of murder and deceit. For those familiar with the author, it is another novel about Kentucky's Josiah Reynolds, who has the misfortune of possessing a strange talent. That talent is finding herself involved in murders more often than not. If you are new (like me) to this series of books, here is what you need to know. Josiah Reynolds is a middle-aged woman living on her farm in Kentucky. She is not perfect and is a bit broken, both physically and psychologically. When her beau's farm hand, Palley, gets it into his teen head to enter a demolition derby, Josiah offers him an old car that has been sitting on her property for years. As no good deed goes unpunished, this act of generosity opens a can of worms that will threaten everything Josiah holds dear. After reading Death By Betrayal, I realized something. I have discovered Kentucky's no-nonsense contemporary version of Hercule Poirot. The novel is a murder mystery, the plot straight and simple, yet there are some unique aspects to this book that set it apart from similar titles. Abigail Keam writes in the first person, but she is actually talking to you directly and engaging you with her style. As I read this book, it was easy to picture myself sitting with Josiah as she unloaded her troubles over a cold drink. The characters are well-developed and unique, and while I was rooting for Josiah, she also has unlikable qualities (like Poirot) that make her all the more realistic. A good mix of secondary characters coupled with a brisk pace round out this story and push immersion to a formidable level. It's a great read for fans of murder mysteries who are looking for something different and original.
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“That is the dream of all novelists—that one of their characters will become ‘somebody.’”
Much of the interview was conducted through an exchange of letters from June 1971 until the summer of 1972. On December 2, 1972, a portion of the interview was taped at the Center for Twentieth Century Studies of the University of Wisconsin. Burgess’s schedule during his two-day visi...
“One of the reasons that the gifted Hemingway never wrote a good novel was that nothing interested him except a few sensuous experiences, like killing things and fucking . . . ”
Photo courtesy of Rachel Cusk. Rachel Cusk was born in Canada in 1967 to British parents, who moved the family to Los Angeles, then to England, where Cusk lives to this day. She began publishing in her midtwenties—clever and assured novels featuring men and women attempting, with li...
Susan Sontag lives in a sparsely furnished five-room apartment on the top floor of a building in Chelsea on the west side of Manhattan. Books—as many as fifteen thousand—and papers are everywhere. A lifetime could be spent browsing through the books on art and architecture, the...
Photo by Sophie Bassouls / Sygma via Getty Images, Courtesy The Ray Bradbury Literary Works, LLC. Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It’s a Rat Pack–era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a...
“The institution of slavery is a stain on this nation's soul which will never be cleansed . . . There's a second sin that's almost as great, and that's emancipation.”
Sketch by Rosalie Seidler, 1957. Truman Capote lives in a big yellow house in Brooklyn Heights, which he has recently restored with the taste and elegance that is generally characteristic of his undertakings. As I entered he was head and shoulders inside a newly arrived crate contai...
“When I say I don't speak about God, it means theologically, the whole theological art, which is a way of reaching the attributes of God: What is He doing? Who is He?”
Chinua Achebe was born in Eastern Nigeria in 1930. He went to the local public schools and was among the first students to graduate from the University of Ibadan. After graduation, he worked for the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation as a radio producer and Director of External Broadcasting...
Welty, circa 1962, Wikimedia Commons I met Eudora Welty in her room at the Algonquin Hotel an hour or so after her train had arrived in Penn Station. She had given me the wrong room number, so I first saw her peering out of her door as the elevator opened. A tall, large-boned, gray-haired w...
