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The Tent by Kealan Patrick Burke

The Tent Kealan Patrick Burke Amazon Digital Services Publication Date: April 20, 2013 Kealan Patrick Burke is a winner of the Bram Stoker Prize (awarded by the Horror Writer’s Association) and has been called “One of the most clever and original talents in contemporary horror” by Booklist. But with Horror […]

Gimbling in the Wabe – More Than Words Can Say

It was a Friday night, and the pizza was about ready to come out of the oven. The Twins game was on TV. I was sitting in my chair, computer on, trolling Facebook and working through a book review when my daughter looked up at the glass picture window behind […]

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On this day, June 23, in 1975, Markus Zusak was born in Sydney, Australia, the youngest child of a mother from Germany and a father from Austria. He has so far written six novels, many of which have won numerous awards, but he is best known for his 2005 work The Book Thief, set in Nazi Germany. That work became an international bestseller and was translated into 63 languages, selling over 16 million copies. It was adapted into a 2013 feature film of the same name starring Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson. Markus’ latest work is Bridge of Clay, was published in 2018. Today, he turns 46.

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On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.