SON OF NOBODY BY YANN MARTEL - Knopf, 2026 - Am I a bad father? This is the question asked by an academic, Harlow Donne, both at the beginning of the novel and again at the end. The question is central to the theme in this story about someone obsessed with work. Harlow works in …
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
A MESSAGE FROM: His Celestial Holiness, Ronald Rump: Grand High Imperial Twitterbug (GHIT), Emperor of the Americas, PREZ for LIFE, Pontiff of the Planet, World’s Greatest Comedian, Majestic Conqueror of I-Rain, Defender of the Filthy Rich, HERO of the Rooskie Federation and Wonder of the Universe: TO THE HOI-POLLOI, IN AS MUCH as the world …
THE INFINITE SADNESS OF SMALL APPLIANCES BY GLENN DIXON
THE INFINITE SADNESS OF SMALL APPLIANCES BY GLENN DIXON - Atria Books, 2026 - Not only is it fun, there’s a certain charm to this story that propels you to the end, despite a rather dystopian flavor to the plot. It is set in a future where humanity’s current inexorable march to extinction has been …
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WORLD NEWS ROUND-UP
While returning from the NATO summit in Turnkey, security agents protecting THE RUMP from his usual off-gassing and constipation, whisked HIS HOLINESS into the front entrance of AIRFARCE ONE and out the back door. He was then hidden in a food container and brought secretly to another jet. The RUMP departed on the secret jet, …
THE SPLENDOR BEFORE THE DARK BY MARGARET GEORGE
THE SPLENDOR BEFORE THE DARK BY MARGARET GEORGE - Berkeley Books, 2018 - It would take a dedicated history buff to know who Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus was. On the other hand, if you asked about the Roman Emperor Nero, most people could supply, “Oh, yes - the crazy Emperor infamous for fiddling when Rome burned”. …
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WHAT THE BILLIONAIRES NEED YOU TO BELIEVE
I saw the most charming little piece of drivel on a Facebook page the other day on why we shouldn’t increase taxation on the filthy rich. Some 20 watt bulb in the 100 watt filament of life likened our current tax situation to a group at a restaurant paying the bill. He insisted that if we …
A BRIDGE TOO FAR
There’s been much kuffule here in Kanadoodle about a new bridge between ‘Murica and Kanadoodle. Kanadoodle’s Prime Ribber, Chillie Con Carnie is taking a lot of flack for being robbed by His Holiness, Ronald Rump - PREZ for life, Saviour of the World, World’s Greatest Comedian, Hero of the Rooskie Federation and Prince of Pieces. …
THE OTHER BENNET SISTER
The Other Bennet Sister - BBC 2026 ten part series based on the 2020 novel by Janice Hadlow - At the end of Jane Austen’s novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’ three of the five Bennet girls are married: Lizzy to Mr. Darcy, Jane to Mr. Bingley and Lydia to the disgraceful Mr. Wickham. From Mrs. Bennett’s …
SPORTS VS THE RUMP!
Fill a field with sweating males suffering from a surfeit of testosterone and adrenaline and make their sole job squashing their opponents so they can put some kind of small object into a net or between a post. Now, if Aunt Jemima came up with a recipe like that, no one would have heard of …
A LABYRINTH OF KINGDOMS BY STEVE KEMPER
A Labyrinth of Kingdoms (10,000 Miles Through Islamic Africa) by Steve Kemper - WW Norton & Co. 2012 - “Dr. Livingston, I presume?” So said Henry Morton Stanley, the American journalist/explorer, at the culmination of his 1871 central African expedition to find the famous missing missionary. The somewhat silly and stilted greeting still lingers with …
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