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Friday Follies 2.5

Stupid Legislative Trick of the Week: Republican members of the Florida House of Representatives are proposing denying a tax credit for films or television shows filmed in the state that are not “family friendly.”

A Minnesota man has sued a “Dr. Phil” spinoff, alleging it tricked him into appearing and discussing the blemishes on his […]

Microreview: The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker

There’s certainly one thing Gerbrand Bakker’s The Twin did. It had me pondering how, among other things, age impacts my reading tastes.

About halfway through a noted author’s new novel set in South Dakota and its history, I gave up. I picked up a postapocalyptic novel, one of my favorite SF subgenres. I put it […]

Weekend Edition: 3-6

Bulletin Board

The latest developments on The Last Train from Hiroshima, which I reviewed last month, aren’t good. The publisher has pulled the book because the author wasn’t able to answer various concerns, including, according to the AP, “whether two men mentioned in the book actually existed.”

Blog Headlines of the Week

Q: Is it […]

Favorite Film Friday: Reds

Love stories don’t rank well on my list of preferred movies. When you get right down to it, though, one of my favorite movies — Reds — is just that, a love story, albeit one played out on an epic background. It’s the background that gets me.

Written, produced and directed by its star, Warren […]

World Book Day: future readers and liars

Today, the UK celebrated World Book Day, described as “the biggest annual celebration of books and reading in the UK and Ireland.” (Quite the concept, ain’t it?) As part of the event, the organizers sponsored a couple surveys that produced some intriguing results

One asked which best-selling book of the past decade people would give […]