Usually the research leading to a book is a means to an end. But with this one, I feel like the book is the means, and the real story lies in the lead up to the book. We could talk about a man so evil he is believed to be responsible for more than 50 rapes and at least 12 homicides. A man who terrorized California for a decade…whose dauchebaggery was low enough to taunt a child, saying he was playing with mommy and daddy. […]
Yes, this is only my third book of the year…but in an alternate life it’s my 31st
ver·sion con·trol noun COMPUTING the task of keeping a software system consisting of many versions and configurations well organized. – google When I’m feeling particularly sorry for myself over something, I like to think that in some other, parallel universe, I was in a similar situation, only things were worse. And now here I am, living in the version of my life that follows the lesser of two evils. How many versions of your life have you imagined? Is there any way to know that […]
Hated it the first time…kinda liked it the second…
I share much the same initial sentiment of my fellow readers on this WTactualF did I just read. I was thrust into a world where the players affectionately sniff each other in greeting (as was polite) and kill small children for multiple reasons because you can’t have just one. Just as this tale was at times unsavory, yet at times really intriguing, I’m also of two minds about how I feel about it. To say the characters are unlikeable is an understatement. There’s our “librarians” […]
A Good Book to Finish Coming off the Heels of Holocaust Remembrance Day
This World War II biography is written about Jan and Antonina Zabinksi. Jan was the Warsaw zoo’s zookeeper. Before the war, he and his wife lived in a villa at the zoo and enjoyed a home filled with strange and exotic pets, (besides the animals in the zoo, of course). It wasn’t unusual to see a hawk hopping throughout the house, or a baby lion being nursed. But what was once a beautifully strange and fulfilling way of life turned to a life of survival […]