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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Rockwell Kent & "Annie McGinley"

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Níor chuaigh mé ar fad go An Starraill nuair ag curtha cuairt ar chóis ar an cnoic go ciuin ar thuas go Gleann Cholm Cille. Bhí séag dorch...
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Booktryst & Pickwick's: for book lovers

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A break from my usual onslaught of reviews to promote a site full of an onslaught of welcome bibliomania. Stephen J. Gertz five times a we...
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Sunday, September 25, 2011

Alan Glynn's "Winterland": Book Review

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The title has nothing to do with an old rock venue; this mystery reveals the secrets about a skyscraper built in Dublin. Winterland Properti...
Friday, September 23, 2011

Andrew Earles' "Hüsker Dü": Book Review

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Earles faced a tough challenge when he wrote this enthusiastic account of these "noise-pop pioneers who launched modern rock," a...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Bob Mould's "See a Little Light": Book Review

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I saw Hüsker Dü at UCLA’s Ackerman Ballroom in 1984 and 1985: Mould notes how this was where the A & R big shots showed up. I rememb...
Monday, September 19, 2011

John Allen Paulos' "Irreligion": Book Review

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This mathematician takes on "why the arguments for God just don't add up." As the subtitle shows, Paulos aims to deflate theol...
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Saturday, September 17, 2011

Stephen Prothero's "Religious Literacy": Book Review

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This combines three sections. First, our present-day American illiteracy about religion, in the most "religious" nation on earth...
Thursday, September 15, 2011

Ag éisteacht go leabhair an tsamraidh seo

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Tá mé ag éisteacht le téipeannaí faoi deireanach go h-obair agus ar ais ann. Bím ag fáil éisteo-leabhair an tsamraidh seo. Thosaigh mé nuair...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Sebastian Barry's "On Canaan's Side": Book Review

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Lilly Bere flees the Irish war for independence with her hunted beau; they hurry in disguise to Chicago. From there, his fate and hers prope...
Sunday, September 11, 2011

Penn Jillette's "God, No!": Book Review

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Inspired or goaded by Glenn Beck’s request that Jillette (the garrulous, skeptical, subversive half of magic duo Penn and Teller) “enter...
Friday, September 9, 2011

Joumana Haddad's "I Killed Scheherazade": Book Review

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This spirited polemic combines "confessions of an angry Arab woman" with her reflections on the plight of men as well as women tra...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011

"Vladimir Nabokov: Novels 1955-62": Review

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Listening to Jeremy Irons' perfect audiobook rendering of the perfect novel "Lolita" recently reminded me of the original w...
Monday, September 5, 2011

Jonathan Littell's "The Kindly Ones": Book Review

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This thousand-page novel documents the increasingly unhinged perspective of sound and fury as told by a gay SS officer blackmailed into se...
Saturday, September 3, 2011

James Miller's "The Passion of Michel Foucault": Book Review

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When this critique appeared in 1993, it aroused controversy for its exploration of the S/M subculture that tangled itself with this French p...
Thursday, September 1, 2011

Julian Guthrie's "The Grace of Everyday Saints": Book Review

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The closing of St. Brigid Catholic Church, after 130 years, in 1994 sparked a dozen years of protests by its parishioners. How they banded ...
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John L. Murphy / "Fionnchú"
Los Angeles, California, United States
Medievalist turned humanities professor; unrepentant but not unskeptical Fenian; overconfident accumulator of books & music; overcurious seeker of trivia, quadrivia, esoterica. Born in Los Angeles but should have been born in my parental Ireland. Eclectic music, reading, ideas-- often Celtic and/or medievally oriented. Tá Gaeilge a chuid feín dom faoi láthair, ach nílim cainteoir líofacht fós! Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg tipyn nefa'.
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