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“Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.” – Alphonse Allais I like independent coffee shops. The Twin Cities has a lot of them. Today I am featuring a photo from one of my favorites, Cream and Amber in Hopkins, Minnesota. Not only is Cream and Amber a coffee shop, it… Read more
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When I read a poem, I always do it with a pencil or pen in hand. I have a pencil in my hand to underline and mark the lines I like best, the ones that stop me in my tracks, the ones I find myself repeating over and over to myself.. Reading poetry is not… Read more
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“A thousand years makes economics silly and a work of art endures for ever, but it is very difficult to do and now it is not fashionable.”― Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa There remain hundreds of books on my reading “to do” list, yet sometimes I find myself re-reading an old favorite. With poetry this is… Read more
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“A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.” —Robert M. Gates Here’s to wild weekends! Read more
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For my last Horror Book Review for October, I am reviewing a book that I am actually a little bit sheepish to admit that I enjoyed, The Traveling Vampire Show by Richard Laymon. I am sheepish because it is the kind of book that almost anyone would, or probably should, find offensive. It is gory,… Read more
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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” ~Haruki Murakami With October rapidly drawing to a close, I will be transitioning to Book Reviews of other genres and to Poetry Reviews. I am the kind of person who needs to let things sit… Read more
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In 2017, right after it was published, I read the book Powers of Darkness. Powers of Darkness is a Icelandic adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula from 1899. It was published anonymously in a newspaper and credited to Stoker and an unidentified author. While it shares the same main character, it differs significantly from the original, adding new characters… Read more
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“I’d rather take coffee than compliments just now.” – Louisa May Alcott Read more
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Guy N. Smith is a guilty pleasure. I began with his series of Pulp Horror books featuring giant crabs (yes, you read that right, giant crabs), Smith’s fiction is as close as you can get to the kind of 1950s or early 1960s horror films that were regular fare when I was growing up on… Read more
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It seems like one of the things that happen as you get older is that you find yourself thinking about the past more often than you had before. The people you have known. The places you have been. The things that you have experienced. In March of this year I spent time with my brother… Read more
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