Stephen King’s latest throws back to his earlier work, though it starts with a fascinating premise. A man stands accused of a horrific crime. The police have incontrovertible evidence of his guilt. He has incontrovertible evidence of his innocence.
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June 13, 2018
Summer Reading Review: Fifteen Dogs
Somewhere around midnight, Rose, a German shepherd, stopped as she was licking her vagina and wondered how long she would be in the place she found herself. She then wondered what had happened to the last litter she’d whelped. It suddenly seemed grossly unfair that one should go through the trouble of having pups only to lose track of them (15)
Our Summer Reading and Summer Weekend Movie Reviews generally consist of older material, things we missed the first time around or that might not immediately occur to the Bureau-crats. Fifteen Dogs, a fabulous (in the original sense) award-winning short novel tells the tale of some Toronto canines who achieve sentience on the whim of a couple of gods.
May 13, 2018
Through the Looking-Glass: Complete Audiobook Version (Bedtime in the Public Domain)
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The latest entry in Bedtime in the Public Domain is from Through the Looking Glass by Charles Lutwidge Dodson under the pen name Lewis Carroll. Today sees the release of the complete audiobook. The series can also be found on Stitcher, on iTunes, or in a direct RSS feed.
May 12, 2018
Through the Looking-Glass: Chapter 12: Which Dreamed It? (Bedtime in the Public Domain)
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The latest entry in Bedtime in the Public Domain is from Through the Looking Glass by Charles Lutwidge Dodson under the pen name Lewis Carroll. Today sees the release of Chapter 12: Which Dreamed It?. The series can also be found on Stitcher, on iTunes, or in a direct RSS feed.
May 11, 2018
Through the Looking-Glass: Chapter 11: Waking (Bedtime in the Public Domain)
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The latest entry in Bedtime in the Public Domain is from Through the Looking Glass by Charles Lutwidge Dodson under the pen name Lewis Carroll. Today sees the release of Chapter 11: Waking. The series can also be found on Stitcher, on iTunes, or in a direct RSS feed.
May 10, 2018
Through the Looking-Glass: Chapter 10: Shaking (Bedtime in the Public Domain)
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The latest entry in Bedtime in the Public Domain is from Through the Looking Glass by Charles Lutwidge Dodson under the pen name Lewis Carroll. Today sees the release of Chapter 10: Shaking. The series can also be found on Stitcher, on iTunes, or in a direct RSS feed.
May 9, 2018
Through the Looking-Glass: Chapter 9: Queen Alice (Bedtime in the Public Domain)
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The latest entry in Bedtime in the Public Domain is from Through the Looking Glass by Charles Lutwidge Dodson under the pen name Lewis Carroll. Today sees the release of Chapter 9: Queen Alice. The series can also be found on Stitcher, on iTunes, or in a direct RSS feed.
May 8, 2018
Through the Looking-Glass: Chapter 8: “It’s My Own Invention” (Bedtime in the Public Domain)
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The latest entry in Bedtime in the Public Domain is from Through the Looking Glass by Charles Lutwidge Dodson under the pen name Lewis Carroll. Today sees the release of Chapter 8: “It’s My Own Invention”. The series can also be found on Stitcher, on iTunes, or in a direct RSS feed.
May 7, 2018
Through the Looking-Glass: Chapter 7: The Lion and the Unicorn (Bedtime in the Public Domain)
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The latest entry in Bedtime in the Public Domain is from Through the Looking Glass by Charles Lutwidge Dodson under the pen name Lewis Carroll. Today sees the release of Chapter 7: The Lion and the Unicorn. The series can also be found on Stitcher, on iTunes, or in a direct RSS feed.
August 18, 2018
Summer Reading: Bleeding Edge (2013)
JD DeLuzio Books
We still have a couple of weeks for summer reading left, and here’s one from five years ago, the last time Thomas Pynchon published a novel. Pynchon, as always, defies easy description, but Bleeding Edge is enough of a techno-thriller, with elements of the fantastic, to qualify for this site.
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