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Sunday, October 7, 2012

Randy Boyagoda's "Beggar's Feast': Book Review

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Ceylon over the twentieth century, seen from a determinedly cussed and ornery self-made man's mindset, infuses this picaresque novel b...
Friday, October 5, 2012

Amitav Ghosh's "The Calcutta Chromosome": Book Review

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I've been assigned a course with this as required reading, so I anticipate my students will share the challenges I encountered. It too...
Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Rudyard Kipling's "Kim": Book/Audiobook Review

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As Amazon lumps together all editions and formats of public domain texts often, this review will highlight the two ways I followed this st...
Monday, October 1, 2012

Weekend in Kaua'i

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For once, I never looked up where I was going. My wife's niece, Cari, to celebrate her recovery from chemotherapy, invited ...
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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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