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Twenty years of reading, watching, writing, and asking questions. Explore my latest essays, book and movie reviews, and dispatches from the world of The Chronicles of Purgatory Station.
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Valeria’s Last Stand by Marc Fitten – A Book Review
I have to admit that I only chose to read this book because I liked its cover, so nothing could have prepared me for…
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The Discreet Pleasures of Rejection by Martin Page – A Book Review
This story features a man named Virgil who comes home to find a woman he can’t remember breaking up with him on his answering…
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The Road – A Movie Review
Though The Road opened around Thanksgiving, it just came to my town a few days before Christmas. This, along with the multiple delays and…
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Bones of the Moon by Jonathan Carroll – A Book Review
I’ve read Carroll’s Land of Laughs and found his characterization very impressive in that particular book, although I felt his plot bottomed out toward…
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Horse Crazy: The Silver Horse Switch by Alison Lester – A Book Review
Intended for young readers, Horse Crazy is the story of Bonnie and Sam, two young girls living in the bush of Australia. Though they…
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Nasreen’s Secret School by Jeanette Winter – A Book Review
Though not particularly full of machismo, I am not prone to cry, but this book made the old eyes water just a bit. Based…
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RE: VERSE STRIKES AGAIN!
Dear Educators, Librarians, Writers, and Poets, Downtown Bloomington’s TheatresCool is excited to again present RE: VERSE, a night of poetry reading and performance. All…
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