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Review: Pattern Recognition

Wednesday, April 14, 2004

I finished Pattern Recognition last night.
Classic William Gibson. Though, it is a bit odd in that it doesn’t have any really science-fictional elements to it at all. Pattern Recognition is set in, basically, modern day Europe, Russia and Japan. Basically, the book is about the search for meaning in mysterious loops of [...]

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Review: Little Giant Encyclopedia of Spells and Magic

Sunday, January 11, 2004

A little review with a big title!
I recently purcahsed The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Spells & Magic, which is a neat, inexpensive, little book. It’s a very brief, simple encyclopedia of superstitions and magic beliefs that covers a lot of ground. First off, let me say that I don’t think anyone should try [...]

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Medieval Lives

Thursday, January 23, 2003

What am I reading this week?
This week it’s
Medieval Lives: Eight Charismatic Men and Women of the Middle Agesby Norman F. Cantor. I’ve read the first section and so far, it’s pretty good.
Obviously, it’s a study of several people from the Middle Ages. Generally, they’re famous people, but “famous” is a relative term. [...]

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Writer’s Block

Tuesday, October 8, 2002

Okay, so I’ve got writer’s block.
It’s not a crime. It’s more like a disease. An insidious, creeping disease that steals my creativity and locks me away in a horrible nightmare of sad, soggy prose. My problem isn’t that I don’t have ideas galore for stories. And, it’s not that they aren’t original and interesting. [...]

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