Tag: Jeffrey Keeten
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Book Review: The Eternal Return by John Kolchak
The Eternal Return by John Kolchak My rating: 5 of 5 stars “‘You know Lucky…’ Betty turned to me, looked in my eyes and then looked away into the distance, ‘Sometimes I feel like my life is a movie that someone wrote but no one’s ever seen.’” Betty has many reasons to have regrets. She’s…
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Book Review: The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John LeCarre
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré My rating: 5 of 5 stars ”What do you think spies are: priests, saints, and martyrs? They’re a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists, and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives. Do you…
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Book Review: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel My rating: 5 of 5 stars ”Hell is the absence of the people you long for.” When the Georgia Flu sweeps around the world killing 99.6% of the population there were suddenly… a lot of people… to long for. The people missing from our lives is the hardest…
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Book Review: The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons
The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons My rating: 4 of 5 stars ”If we find that all our efforts have failed and someone buys the house, we shall set fire to it and burn it down. We will do this at night, before it is occupied. In another time they would have plowed…
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Book Review: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote My rating: 5 of 5 stars “How much money did you get from the Clutters?”“Between forty and fifty dollars.” Top Picture Hickock, Richard Eugene (WM)28 KBI 97 093; FBI 859 273 A. Address: Edgerton, Kansas. Birthdate 6-6-31 Birthplace K.C., Kans. Height: 5-10 Weight: 175 Hair: Blond. Eyes: Blue. Build:…
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Book Review: A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle My rating: 5 of 5 stars ”Most people, if you describe a train of events to them, will tell you what the result would be. They can put those events together in their minds, and argue from them that something will come to pass. There are few…
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The Origin Story of My Involvement with Gravelight Press
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is an origin story. It was a dark and stormy night. Don’t groan. It really was. Booming thunder, swirling fog, blazing flashes of lightning, sporadic torrential rain, the whole frilling works. I walked down an…
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Book Review: Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde by Jeff Guinn
Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde by Jeff Guinn My rating: 5 of 5 stars ”We’re going down, down in an earlier roundAnd Sugar, we’re going down swingingI’ll be your number one with a bulletA loaded god complex, cock it and pull it We’re going down, down (down, down)Down, down…
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Book Review: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson My rating: 5 of 5 stars ”No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood…
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