With inflation running wild, prices skyrocketing, world-wide supply chains in disarray, climate calamities an every day occurrence, agricultural output sagging, investment markets in a tail-spin and Vlad (the impaler) Pootine’s war in the U-Crane still raging, the average person is feeling the financial squeeze. In fact, the only people with a reason to smile are …
Author: richardsleftbank
Retired, when in a late life crisis, began to write - started a blog and now, three novels later, the rest still isn't history.
BAN THOSE PLANES!
When you start comparing ‘apples and oranges’, most people view this as a sign that your argument is on shaky ground. Apparently most people doesn’t include a few elected Publicans in ‘Murica, especially when it comes to defending guns for everyone. House minority whipper Stevie (the Wonder) Scaldmeez says ‘Muricans didn’t ban planes when they …
THE LIGHT THROUGH THE LEAVES BY GLENDY VANDERAH
THE LIGHT THROUGH THE LEAVES BY GLENDY VANDERAH, Lake Union Publishing, 2021 – Here’s a story about one of the more chilling parental nightmares – a baby abduction. Ellis has just seen her husband with another woman. She takes her children to a forested park area where her twins begin fighting and she’s so distraught …
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HELLO DARKNESS, MY OLD FRIEND
The spokesman for the National Rifle Association (NRA) says that the best way to stop a bad person with a gun is to have a good person with a gun. Tell that to the supermarket security guard in Buffalo killed by someone better armed and wearing body armor. Stop the school shootings? The NRA says …
OPERATION ANGUS BY TERRY FALLIS
Operation Angus by Terry Fallis, McClelland & Stewart, 2021 – Although this is my first foray into the Fallis’ opus, Operation Angus is the third story involving an unlikely set of characters. Angus McLintock is the Member of Parliament for Cumberland-Prescott, Minister of State for International Relations and a former professor of mechanical engineering. The …
OLD BATTLES
There’s quite a storm brewing in ‘Murica now that the GHIT’s appointees on the SuperPreen Court are set to strike down the fifty year old law that legalized abortion. The ‘Publican Party and their traditional supporters are making sure that the moment the law is struck down, every kind of abortion will be illegal in …
THE WHITE SHIP BY CHARLES SPENCER
The White Ship by Charles Spencer, William Collins Publishing, 2020 – Even if you slumbered through your English history lessons, you might vaguely remember 1066 as the momentous year when the Normans under William the Conqueror squashed the Anglo-Saxons at the battle of Hastings and took control of the country. The next date to jog …
DOESN’T PLAY WELL WITH OTHERS
What went wrong? The troops were promised a leisurely drive down the highway to the capital. The roads were supposed to be lined with happy U-Crane peasants cheering, throwing flowers and blowing kisses. The U-Crane Prez, Voldmort Z was going to throw his hands in the air and flee the country. Those in the west …
STORYTELLER – THE AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF ROALD DAHL
Storyteller – The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl by Donald Sturrock, Harper Press, 2010 – Roald Dahl once boasted that children all over the world would invite him into their houses for a cup of tea. With 250 million copies of his books sold, he remains one of the best selling children’s authors in the …
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JANE AUSTEN’S EMMA IN THE MOVIES
Jane Austen’s Emma – 1996 & 2020 After ‘Pride and Prejudice’, ‘Emma’ is possibly the most popular of Jane Austen’s novels and there have been several cinematic versions for those who enjoy viewing to reading. If you’re like my DDD and dismiss Austen as a novelist whose sole preoccupation is having her characters married off, …
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