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August 7, 2019

Review: Redemption’s Blade, Adrian Tchaikovsky

Rating the Book: 5 out of 5 Rating of What the Book Thinks It Is: 2 out of 5 Thinking about the question of…

February 5, 2019

Review: The Fall of Gondolin, JRR Tolkien

Rating: 5 out of 5 It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anything that I liked a work by JRR Tolkien, and yet I…

December 26, 2017

Bungay Priory

Finally a place with a story or two to tell though mostly because of the tragedies that have struck Bungay in times past. Yet,…

June 11, 2013

Sauron

After my recent reread of the Lord of the Rings, I also decided to watch Peter Jackson’s movies again. I didn’t get very far…

June 2, 2013

‘Lord of the Rings’, J.R.R. Tolkien

‘And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a…

May 30, 2013

‘Arkenstone’, Summoning

Summoning is a band that I would generally put into a darker category, and yet I really like them. I think it is the…

May 25, 2013

‘The Dragon is Withered…’, J.R.R. Tolkien

There is a very nice poem (this sentence would probably be more accurate if I had said “There is another very nice poem…”) in…

May 16, 2013

“Whose entire body of work is worth reading?”

Reading Marginal Revolution brings up interesting questions every now and then. Tyler Cowen is a person with a very wide range of interests, and…

May 15, 2013

‘The Hobbit’, J.R.R. Tolkien

“Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about,…

May 12, 2013

What Have I Been Reading?

Since it has been a long time from my last post (more or less two months) — not including the one from yesterday —…

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