We all have books that we have read in private, and even worse, we may harbor a secret love for them. These books may have elicited taboo emotions, even though they are apparently contrary reads that don’t quite mesh with what we are traditionally thought to enjoy. Personally, I have no such shame because I…
Tag: politics
Review of “Shadow Study” by Maria V. Snyder: Maria V. Snyder Wednesday
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Kobo/Goodreads As promised to fans of Maria V. Snyder’s books (who also happen to be devoted readers of this blog), here is my review of the highly anticipated start of a new series in the worlds of both Ixia and its neighboring country of magic Sitia. But this time around, Maria V….
Review of “Fields of Blood:Religion and the History of Violence” by: Karen Armstrong
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Books-A-Million/Goodreads In our ideologically polarized world, one thing that two sharply-contrasting groups militant fundamentalists or atheists, on either end of the theism and atheism spectrum, is an extremely facile grasp on history. Facts merely become an easily domesticated, tamable beast, to some members of both these groups, who feel that history should…
A Bibliophile's Reverie 