Category: writing / books
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Book Review: Under the Banner of Heaven, by Jon Krakauer
Under the Banner of Heaven tells three interwoven true stories: the history of the Mormon faith, the current life of Mormon fundamentalists, and the 1984 murders of an innocent woman and her baby daughter at the hands of brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, two such fundamentalists. The implication is that the Lafferty murders were not…
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The Horrors of Internet Dating, Volume 4
Good news everyone!1 I’m still single. That means I continue to check free internet dating sites once in a while, scouring them for the worst of the worst to mercilessly mock for your entertainment. And I mean it when I say “once in a while.” It doesn’t take long to find this stuff. The saddest…
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Book Review: Club Dead, by Charlaine Harris
Club Dead is the third book in Charlaine Harris’s Southern Vampire Mysteries series. See my reviews for Dead Until Dark and Living Dead in Dallas for the general gist of the series. Vague spoilers for Club Dead lie ahead, but nothing you won’t forget before you get around to reading it. A lot is familiar…
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