Book Review: Escape From Saddam

Escape From Saddam is a memoir by Lewis Alsamari of his journey to do just that…escape from Iraq. He had a long journey being smuggled out of Iraq and claimed asylum in England. He lives by the words of his Uncle Saad, “a genuine man never forgets his family.” But how could anyone forget their [...]

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Book Review: The Book of Lost Things

I just finished reading The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly and it was fantastic.  I love Grimm’s Fairy Tales and this book incorporated many of those stories while being itself a great story on its own. The main character, David, is only twelve, but don’t dismiss it as a children’s story because some [...]

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Book Review: Paradise Lost

In praise of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, I have created this illustration of what the world looks like as Milton described it. World means whole universe not Earth alone. Currently Earth is connected to Heaven by a golden chain and Satan wants to make a bridge that extends from Hell through Chaos and creates a [...]

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The Age of Wire and String

The reality of which Ben Marcus writes his stories in The Age of Wire and String are so unbelievably intriguing. I get a sense that I am reading something that would be found in the Twilight Zone. There are supernatural undertones in his writing and to each ultimately different narrative. In Land on floating Island [...]

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An Evening with Max Brooks

On Monday October 12, 2009 I went to see Max Brooks speak about his book The Zombie Survival Guide. He made it clear to the audience that Z-Day is coming. You don’t when and you don’t know where. And when it comes, he will be ready. He wrote this book to inform everyone how to [...]

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Disturbing Varieties

(My thoughts on the book Varieties of Disturbance by: Lydia Davis.) I can relate with the Catepillar story. When I see something or know that it is there I keep thinking about it any time something familiar to the subject is addressed or noticed. I do wonder where that spider has gone when an hour [...]

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