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In A Prayer For the Crown-Shy, Becky Chambers delivers a captivating novella that explores the potential of humanity and technology’s role in shaping its fate. I picked this book up at my local library without realizing it is the second installment in the Monk and Robot series. Even so, it stands easily on its own,…

A Thousand Distant Radios by Woody Skinner – A Book Review

May 15, 2023

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Scott William Foley

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If you haven’t heard of Woody Skinner, I suggest you familiarize yourself with him. He’s a Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award winner whose work has appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Booth, The Carolina Quarterly, Mid-American Review, and more. I recently had the pleasure of making Skinner’s acquaintance. After hearing his backstory and learning about his writing…

Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy – A Book Review

Feb 26, 2023

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Scott William Foley

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Stella Maris is a companion piece to The Passenger, both by Cormac McCarthy. The latter took great pains to position Alicia Western as an enigmatic, brilliant, and potentially insane character who happened to be the sister of Robert Western, The Passenger’s protagonist. In The Passenger, the reader experienced short vignettes of Alicia, often while being…

The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy – A Book Review

Feb 11, 2023

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Scott William Foley

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For those of you seeking a book full of adventure and a streamlined plot, I suggest you look elsewhere. However, if you’re fascinated by the unknowns of life and the external factors that can dictate the direction of our existence, The Passenger may be for you. Written by Cormac McCarthy, who also brought us The…

News Of the World by Paulette Jiles – A Book Review

Mar 26, 2022

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Scott William Foley

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I’ll be honest, I grabbed this book from my local library’s shelf because I recognized the cover from HBO Max and it looked like a fast read. I have not seen the movie adaptation starring Tom Hanks, nor did I particularly want to. You see, from the trailers I watched, the story did not seem…

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