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Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips is in many ways a refreshing indicator of the extent to which fantasy has been embraced by the mainstream. Far more so than science fiction, of course, because if you set out to depict spaceships in space, aliens in an alien landscape/society, or attempt include any kind of science or substantive, complex plot, you are moving towards ‘cult’, ‘niche’ and other more marginal frontiers where fewer members of the general public are inclined to boldly go. Read the rest…
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It’s hard to write a biography of someone who left as scant a record of his life as William Shakespeare did. So a good portion of this book debunks theories that posit that Shakespeare didn’t write his plays and why the people who have been suggested as authors probably weren’t. Bryson sticks to his subject and while writing with verve and the humor for which he is justly famous, he meticulously sets out the few undisputed facts about Shakespeare — mostly gleaned from legal documents. While not Read the rest…
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This was going to be another airplane book but I made the mistake of starting it before I started my trip — and I couldn’t quit reading it! The bad news is — by the time I got back from the trip, I’d read a couple more books and the details of this one became fuzzy! So, you’ll have to take my word for it that it is good and gripping. The main character is a great political candidate — charming, intelligent, a real Boy Scout — with a guilty secret Read the rest…
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