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Apr.27.2013
THE LAST ORACLE is, by far, the best James Rollins novel I've read. Hmmm...probably since SANDSTORM. (And I've read a few well-crafted Rollins novels.) Now, TLO starts a bit slow so I urge readers to stick with it. Once the pace picks up, the reward is nonstop action and pulse-pounding, tug-on-the-...
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Apr.20.2013
Photo: Boston's finest rushing to help an injured runner. This will be SI's cover. From mashable.com.
My thoughts, such as they are, on this week's marathon massacre and the FBI's and Watertown PD's amazing capture of Suspect #2. There'll be another post soon that chronicles my...
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Feb.17.2013
Children tell us about the world we have forgotten exists. They tell us about shapes and tastes and wonders we left so far behind in our efforts to earn a living and be adults that we lost the basis of our lives. Even when I was a child I was amazed when other kids would talk about all...
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Feb.17.2013
A meteor estimated to be 10 tons by NASA exploded Friday morning over Russia’s Ural region and its shockwave caused injuries to over 1,000 people. It took out windows and walls in the city of Chelyabinsk. And it temporarily shifted the conversation here on earth to talks of the heavens.
“We...
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Jan.15.2013
The first segment of my novella, A Train Trip to Murder on Strawberry Point, was published today.
Please take a look. I think you'll like it.
http://www.pikerpress.com
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Dec.15.2012
This has been another movie weekend for the missus and me as we do our best to ignore omnipresent songs trying to lure us into the season's commercial orgy. So last night, we watched Terrence Malick's The New World on HBO (that one was a freebie). I think we were both surprised at this...
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Dec.08.2012
http://rochellejewelshapiro.com/this-is-my-bubbie-my-russian-grandma-from-whom-i-inherited-my-psychic-gift/
My Russian grandmother from whom I inherited my psychic gift.
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Dec.07.2012
Anna Karenina
Starring: Keira Knightley, Matthew McFadyen, Kelly McDonald, Jude Law, Olivia Williams, Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and more.
Directed by: Joe Wright Screenplay by: Tom Stoppard Based on the Novel by:...
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Nov.10.2012
The Communists were in power. The year: 1988. The place: the territory and city of Kaliningrad, named for a buddy of Joe Stalin. My wife and I were there for the day, exploring the bleak, gray remains of several centuries – none bleaker or...
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Nov.08.2012
I met a guy in the pub this evening who was a spy - actually a double agent - in the 60s. He was a diplomat recruited by the Russians at the British Embassy in Moscow, who spied on the communists instead of us: odd choice at the time of Ward, Mandy Rice-Davies, Christine Keeler, Blunt, Burgess...
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