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Gimbling in the Wabe – A Momentary Lapse in Reality

Published on : 28 February, 201427 February, 2014 Published by : Sharon Browning

This is the third in a series of my reminisces of traveling to Soviet Russia in May – June 1989, piqued from watching the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Although time has brought many changes to both that iconic city and to my own life, before I share this final installment, I must go back, [….]

LitStack Review: The Human Division by John Scalzi

Published on : 27 November, 201326 November, 2013 Published by : Sharon Browning

The Human Division John Scalzi Tor Books Release Date: May 14, 2013 ISBN 978-0-7653-3351-3 John Scalzi may just single-handedly bring me back to the “science fiction” half of the “science fiction and fantasy” genre. I used to enjoy reading tales of space exploration and alien life; Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and of course, [….]

On this day, September 16, in 1926, John Knowles was born in Fairmont, West Virginia. He is best known for his 1959 novel, A Separate Peace, which is one man’s reminiscences of his youth at prep school under the pall of World War II. While not autobiographical, the school in the novel is based on the Phillips Exeter Academy which the author attended in his youth (one of the main characters was based on Gore Vidal, a classmate of Knowles). While he wrote 25 other works, none reached the same popularity as A Separate Peace. Knowles died in 2001, at age 75.

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