A Lucifer Reading

A big thanks to everyone who made it out to my reading on Feb. 25! For those of you who were not able to come, fret not, and enjoy: And another large thanks to Shaun Winters for the beautiful footage.

Indiegogo for Lucifer

 The much-awaited Indiegogo campaign for Lucifer is now up and running, and you can find it here. It would be totally awesome if you were to check it out, and even better if you happened to share it with everyone you know. Kicking in a bit of money would be incredible – lots of money,…
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Arguably

by Christopher Hitchens It is with great pride that I can finally announce my completion of Arguably. Given the extreme length of the excursion into such a lofty book, this review will be slightly longer than my usual ones to grant the author the respect he deserves, God bless his beautiful soul. I think the…
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The Alchemist

by Paulo Coelho The Alchemist was a novel that I had been greatly anticipating for some time, given the glowing reviews it received from friends of mine, so it comes with heavy disappointment to say that I didn’t love this book. I will say that parts of the story really spoke to me, but those…
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The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly

by Jean-Dominique Bauby I will admit to the unique method of construction of The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly––being dictated by an almost-fully-paralyzed author after his stroke using only a series of winks––being one of my initial attractions to the book. As extraordinary as this is of its own merit, the story itself is well-written and…
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Nocturne

by Helen Humphreys A nocturne is a musical composition, inspired by or evocative of the night. In its most familiar form, it is a single-movement character piece written for solo piano. With that description, it’s not difficult to see how fitting the title for Helen Humphreys’ memoir truly is, both channelling the spirit of the…
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A Universe From Nothing

by Lawrence M. Krauss A Universe From Nothing is highly interesting in many ways. Coming from someone who only has basic understandings of physics, learning of many general concepts to help you reach similar conclusions to those of the author already made this read worthwhile, but presenting the number of widely accepted theories in physics…
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Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut  Few authors can claim to have changed my life, but even fewer can make that claim on separate instances with different works. Kurt Vonnegut is one of the few, first with Breakfast of Champions––which flipped the whole notion on how you can tell a story on its head––then, again, with Slaughterhouse-Five. I absolutely loved…
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