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Prince Caspian

"If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been proof that you were not.” Author: C.S. Lewis I’m finally doing it – reading in my late 30s what everyone else read in their childhood: the Chronicles of Narnia series. I just finished the second (or fourth, depending on the order you prefer to read them in) book in the series: Prince Caspian. In Prince Caspian Lucy, Edmund, Susan, and Peter are ushered back to Narnia. One minute, they’re sitting in a train station, waiting to go off for another school year. Narnia is a distant memory. Perhaps something that was [...]

2025-12-15T20:33:53-07:00December 15th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , |

Raptor Red

“Survival is the only true measure of success.” Author: Robert T. Bakker Getting involved in the excitement of Jurassic Park: Rebirth reminded me of my undying love of all things dinosaurs, which started in my childhood when I saw the first Jurassic Park movie on a rainy night in a drive-in in Memphis. With equal parts nostalgia and continued obsession, I started to go through my library, looking at books that I’d bought with extreme excitement and just never gotten around to reading. I finally read and adored Footprints of Thunder and then, there it was, the discarded library book copy [...]

2025-12-01T11:57:08-07:00December 1st, 2025|Tags: , , , , , , , |

The Last Chronicle of Barset

“Money is worth thinking of, but it is not worth very much thought.” Author: Anthony Trollope In The Last Chronicle of Barset Anthony Trollope brings the Barsetshire Chronicles to a close with a stimulating scandal, an unexpected death, a forbidden romance, and a failed romance. What better way to close out a rousing Victorian drama? This time, Barsetshire is consumed with the case of a supposedly stolen check. The proud but impoverished Reverend Josiah Crawley has cashed a note for 20 pounds to pay his butcher bill. He believes this money was given to him by his friend, Dean Arabin, but [...]

2025-11-26T16:16:01-07:00November 26th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |
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