I’m going to guess there aren’t too many places outside fan fiction where you’ll find Supernatural mentioned in the same breath or sentence as Hamlet. Let alone Aristotle, Karl Marx, Immanuel Kant (who’s a real pissant), or Thomas Aquinas. Or Simone du Bouvoir. Or many other philosophers. Just so we’re clear: yes. I mean *that* Supernatural. Not the idea of the supernatural, or defining the supernatural, though certainly some chapters address those topics and I think a great many philosophers have covered that ground. For those people who […]
A House for the Season Book 2
I grabbed the first three of this series all at once – they’re pretty cheap, at least for Kindle. I’ll be picking up the next few very soon – I have no idea how many there are. Guess I should find out so I don’t read the last one without realizing it’s the last one. It’s like eating the last cookie without realizing it, then reaching in the bag for the next one and there’s nothing there. So disappointing. Anyway, poor Jane has always been […]
A House for the Season Book 1
Last Cannonball, I read and reviewed the “Poor Relations” series by Beaton, and found that I enjoyed her style. The books are quick and entertaining reads. They all seem to follow a similar formula, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Beaton found what worked for her and stuck with it. This series, “A House for the Season,” takes place around the same time and in the same-ish neighborhood as the Poor Relations. The main characters are the below-stairs gang at a house in Mayfair […]
All Fluff and No Substance Makes “Nicholson” a Dull Read
If nothing else, Marc Eliot’s biography of Jack Nicholson reminded me why I don’t typically read biographies of still living people when the subject has no involvement with the book. In relying exclusively on archival interviews and firsthand accounts from a handful of Nicholson’s friends Eliot has put together a superficial account of a man whose life is anything but superficial. Nicholson: A Biography recounts all of Jack’s life from his childhood to arriving in Hollywood up to 2013, yet when it was over I […]