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Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Bram Stoker's "Dracula": Audiobook Review

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Overall Performance Story "More English reporting than Transylvanian action" If you could sum up ...
Sunday, January 29, 2017

Geraldine Brooks' "Year of Wonders": Audiobook Review

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Overall Performance Story "Another Journal of the Plague Year" Is there anything you would ch...
Friday, January 27, 2017

Boys for Pele

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I was asked by a colleague who is a PhD in psychology but also a practicing curandera (learned from her grandmother) if I had an encoun...
Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Jorge Luis Borges' "Professor Borges": Book Review

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These 25 lectures from 1966, editors Martin Arias and Martin Hadis confess in their introduction, defied easy transcription. For they wer...
Monday, January 23, 2017

Dante's "Divine Comedy": Audiobook Review

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Overall Performance Story "You are not a child anymore" If you could sum up The Divine Comedy ...
Saturday, January 21, 2017

Goldman Sachs Wins Either Way

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My FB feed fills with contempt today, as nearly all my "friends" lament His swearing in. I admit to sharing this poster from t...
Thursday, January 19, 2017

Philip Pullman's "The Amber Spyglass": Audiobook Review

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Overall Performance Story "Tell them true stories" What did you love best about The Amber Spygl...
Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Philip Pullman's "The Subtle Knife": Audiobook Review

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"Upending the Story of the Fall, part 2 " If you could sum up Th...
Sunday, January 15, 2017

Philip Pullman's "The Golden Compass": Audiobook Review

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"Against the powers that be" Would you consider the audio edition of The Golden Compass to be better than the print version? ...
Friday, January 13, 2017

Mark Williams' "Ireland's Immortals": Book Review

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How the Christian Irish regarded their island's pagan divinities, in medieval and modern times, comprises the two halves of   Irela...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2017

"MYFAROG": Book Review

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How far the creator of this My(thic) Fa(ntasy) Ro(le-Playing) G(ame) can be critiqued as for his creation, like many controversial artist...
Monday, January 9, 2017

Michael Moynihan + Didrik Soderlind's "Lords of Chaos": Book Review

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This book has sparked much attention, considering its volatile subject. Reading it at a distance of 15-20 years from the events, the subti...
Saturday, January 7, 2017

Brad Warner's "There Is No God and He Is Always With You": Book Review

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I've enjoyed the series of engaging books by Brad Warner joining his Zen practice to his life and music. He writes naturally, in a conv...
Thursday, January 5, 2017

Christopher Hitchens' "The Portable Atheist": Book Review

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As many reviews on Amazon precede mine, I will offer a sample of the places I found most engaging. Christopher Hitchens received plaudits ...
Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Fate of my fathers

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Last year, I remarked to a FB thread that the Irish might have suffered trauma in surviving An Gorta Mór . A recent study verified this ...
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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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