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#CrapGotPublished - 101 Ways to Know If Your Cat Is French

22 Oct 2024 1 minute read 0 comments FabulousBro

Every week I present a new book, that is in my opinion crap that somebody has published... The event runs under the hastags 🙈 #RandomThingsTuesday #CrapGotPublished The next book of this series is the one with the lovely title: "101 Ways to Know If...

The School of Two Heavens as One

4 Jul 2021 3 minute read 1 comment The Archivist

(The Library: Book Review) The School of Two Heavens as One follows the philosophy of striking your opponent with two weapons at once! As if the heavens themselves struck your foe from two different directions. And directions, is what Takezô, our you...

The Théâtre des Vampires

21 Oct 2021 15 minute read 0 comments The Archivist

(The Library: Book Series Review) In "Le Théâtre des Vampires", the creatures of the night pretend to be humans, so they can act as vampires. "How avant-garde" would remark Claudia in her sophisticated manners. It is only through this lie that vampi...

King's Cujo

30 Oct 2021 4 minute read 0 comments The Archivist

(The Library: Book Review) Castle Rock, Maine, USA is the location where Cujo, the St-Bernard dog, goes rabid after being bit by a bat. Published in 1981, Stephen King wrote this at the height of his alcoholism. I am reviewing this book but this revi...

Ten Little N-Words

6 Jul 2021 3 minute read 2 comments The Archivist

(The Library: Book Review) Murder and mystery on a lonely island where ten murders may take place... or not! Who will die and who will stay alive in this amazing thriller by Agatha Christie is left to the reader to find out. Here she is, photographed...

Book Review: "Fortunately The Milk"

20 Jan 2022 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

As a public school teacher, I would have flunked my student’s effort if he or she were to turn in such a fantastical story that had so many climaxes and alien concepts. Not that there were actually any aliens in Neil Gaiman‘s story but there we...

1984 is Now

18 Jul 2021 8 minute read 10 comments The Archivist

(The Library: Book Review) The dangers posed by an oppressive society of thought control, speech control and permanent war are all too familiar today. What is frightening is that we are getting closer to that society. I am speaking for the entire wor...

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

10 Jul 2021 5 minute read 1 comment The Archivist

(The Library: Book Review) Cosmic horror is hard to define. It seems to invade your universe and your soul from within. It exists and is present whether you admit it or not. There is no denying the ravaging effects and pure evil, it seems, lurks in t...

Psychohistory's Foundations

23 Jul 2021 8 minute read 2 comments The Archivist

(The Library: Book Series Review) We all learn that to build something solid, it is better to build on solid ground. We call the initial laying of cement on this solid ground, this bedrock, the foundations of an edifice. But when it comes to designin...

Book Review: “Reasons to Stay Alive”

26 Feb 2023 1 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei

It may look like I was bored stiff by “Reasons to Stay Alive” but in actual fact, I thought @mattzhaig did an excellent job writing about a topic as serious as depression in an easy-to-access manner. So easy that I dared to bring this book to an outd...