• Book Review

    The Power of Myth (Programs 1-6)

    I've gone along for many years hearing about The Power of Myth and The Hero's Journey. But it wasn't until the year 2024, some 36 years after it was originally published, that I finally got to hear Campbell and Moyers's discussion for myself.

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    Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross #2)

    I'm the kind of person who is willing to read just about anything. As I continue my journey through the Alex Cross series, I've decided that erotic fiction is not my jam. Not that I was interested in erotic fiction in the first place. But getting slapped in the face…

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    Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross #1)

    I'm not sure how many people in my generation (I prefer X-ennial over geriatric millennial) even know who Charles Lindbergh was, let alone what happened to his kid. But you can learn all about it in this thriller in which a character has somewhat of an obsession with the Lindbergh…

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    Space Shuttle Stories

    Another pick of The Planetary Society Book Club - this for April 2024. As the cover states, this book features firsthand astronaut accounts from all 135 missions. It's loaded with photos too!

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    The Penguin Book of Hell

    Do people often tell you to go to Hell? Is it actually quite common? Like, more common than you'd like to admit? Do you not really have a lot of context for where exactly Hell is? Well then, this is the book for you!

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    Disavowed (Star Trek: Section 31)

    Dr. Julian Bashir is turning out to be a lot like Jack Bauer. Being a hero time and again but getting damned for his efforts. I mean, Bashir essentially committed treason, but we should be able to look past a little thing like that, right? Section 31 can!

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    Conagher

    Hey, remember the Sam Elliott movie, Conagher? You should because it played on TNT about every other day in the early '90s! This is the book that inspired that film about a lone soul drifter looking for something. And that something happens to be a widow with a couple kids...