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Title: Hostage Author: Robert Crais Publisher: Doubleday (2001) No stranger to Crais' back list , I was happy to delve in for thi...

Title: Dead Spy Running Author: Jon Stock Narrator: Paul Panting Audiobook Publisher: W.F. Howes Ltd. (2009) This review is really mo...

Title: Atonement Author: Ian McEwan Publisher: Anchor (2003) Due to the beginning of this year being quite filled with the excitement...

Clear reasons why and suggestions for change. My favorite quote: We raise our little boys to view their bodies as tools to master their e...

Unforeseen circumstances have Michael and me skipping our usual end of month post this month. We'll be back next month though. As for ...

Title: The Hot Rock Author: Donald E. Westlake Publisher: Simon and Schuster (1970) Ah, the New Year. What's that you say? In i...

I recently picked The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness for my book club (and it's very interesting - you s...

PCN often has the most amazing posts about personal or family events but this must be the absolute most amazing of all !

And it's a good one. Read it here . (hat tip: Dr M)

Title: O peration Terror Author: The Gordons Publisher: Doubleday & Company , Inc. ( 1960 ) If Michael and I were on the E...

One of its scariest attributes is The Enabler. Don't be one. Brutsch is a grown-ass man who has made his own choices, choices that c...

Have a listen. sgwordy says: So if I decide the sky is white and start looking at it like it's white will I see white more than blue? ...

Title: Ghost Soldiers Author: Hampton Sides Publisher: Doubleday (2001) Repeat readers of this book/movie post series might have n...

Funny on the show , funny in real life.

Check out this article .  And I couldn't agree more with... I don't know. I think we have this tendency to overrate our powers ...

Check out what these unsuspecting Swedes said about their paternity leave : Before going on leave, Mr. Decker says he thought: "You ...

Found here . The segment that most caught my eye: But the veil of opulence operates only under the guise of fairness. It is rather a di...

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold, but so does a hard-boiled egg.

Title: Bubba Ho-Tep Author: Joe R. Lansdale Publisher: Tachyon Publications (2010) Note: This short story was originally published...