Trouble at home? Is your neighborhood in decline? Do not despair! You need only start applying the lessons given from on high by the CHOSEN ONE of ‘Murica, the Grand High Imperial Twitterbug (GHIT), PREZ for life and World’s Greatest Comedian - the one, the ONLY, *Ronald Rump*. Let’s start by affirming that a home …
Month: July 2025
REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES BY SHELBY VAN PELT
REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES BY SHELBY VAN PELT, Ecco and HarperCollins, 2022 - Set in the Puget Sound area of Northern Washington state in the small fictional town of Sowell Bay, Remarkably Bright Creatures is a story about two lost souls being connected by Marcellus, a sixty pound giant Pacific octopus who has been trapped in …
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AN EYE FOR FIFTY EYES
After WWII, Jewish people held the moral high ground - six million victims fed to the Nazi furnaces while the world did nothing. The state of Israel may only exist because of the collective guilt of the western powers, shamed at choosing to look the other way before and during the war. When the lessons …
AUSTEN AT SEA BY NATALIE JENNER
Austen at Sea by Natalie Jenner - St. Martin’s Press, 2025 - Set in the American post-civil war era, the story revolves around two sets of American siblings, Henrietta and Charlotte Stevenson, the daughters of a Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice, and Nicholas and Hazlett Nelson, veterans of the civil war, who operate a rare bookshop …
FISK
Fisk - Australian series from 2021 with three seasons on Netflix - I’m rather partial to off-beat humor and Fisk is one of the funniest things to escape Australia since Barry Humphries found drag, a dazzling pair of gigantic sunglasses and became Dame Edna. Helen-Tudor Fisk (played by Kittie Flanagan) is a lawyer looking for …
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