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World Without Pain: The Story of a Search
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Silent Interviews
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Stories about the mysterious Telepathic Guild Invisible People
The Relocation Blues
Adriana’s Family
The Woman Who Fell Backwards and Other Stories
Apocalypse Bluff and Other Stories
The Senescent Nomad Hits the Road
Invasive Procedures: Stories
Heroes and Other Illusions: Stories
Bedlam Battle: An Omnibus of the One Thousand Series
After the Fireflood
Caliban’s Children
The Fantasy Book Murders
Opting Out and Other Departures
Sunflower: A Novel
America Redux: Impressions of the United States After Thirty-Five Years Abroad
Fear or Be Feared: Fantasies
Writing as a Metaphysical Experience
Reviews and Reflections on Books, Literature, and Writing
The One Thousand: A Novella
The One Thousand: Book Two: Team of Seven
The One Thousand: Book Three: Black Magic Bus
The One Thousand: Book Four: Deconstructing the Nightmare
After the Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Memoir of Greece
The Misadventures of Mama Kitchen: A Novel
Dark Mirrors: Dystopian Tales
Love Children: A Novel
Painsharing and Other Stories
The Dragon Ticket and Other Stories
Tag Archives: adventure
Book Review: Small Game by Blair Braverman
This novel is fairly short, fast-paced, and very entertaining. It concerns a woman named Mara who teaches survival skills at a facility called Primal Instinct. She is approached by a casting team of a new reality show, Civilization. Together with … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, death appeal, Jack London, reality show, survival
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Book Review: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
Although John Scalzi is a best-selling author in the science fiction field, I have never read any of his novels until now. I remember reading and enjoying the occasional short story or novelette I encountered in an anthology, but that’s … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, Godzilla, monsters, parallel world, science fiction
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Book Review: River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Millard
River of the Gods is a powerful, well-written book about some fascinating historical characters on adventurous journeys. Although the central focus is the expedition of Richard Burton, John Hanning Speke, and Sidi Mubarak Bombay through East Africa from Zanzibar to … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, Africa, exploration, history, Nile River, traveling
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Book Review: The Adventurer’s Son by Roman Dial
This memoir tells of a father’s search for his missing son, and I can acutely identify with it in a number of ways. First of all, I am also a father. The author of this book has one son; I … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Travel
Tagged adventure, Alaska, Costa Rica, memoir, Parenting, travel
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Book Review: Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose
I bought this book because I wanted to read about exploration and adventure, and there is plenty of that in it. Lewis and Clark and their small team headed off into territory unknown to the citizens of the United States, … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, history, Lewis and Clark, Louisiana Territory, Thomas Jefferson, travel
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Book Review: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
This is another book that has been on my shelf for years after being purchased at a library book sale. The need for reading material during the pandemic drove it into my hands. It’s a good book. It has a … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, biography, history, Olympic games, prisoner of war, World War 2
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A Tale of Three Jackets
In order to help you understand this completely I need to tell you an anecdote about my father. He had a great sense of humor back in the days when most of us lived together under one roof, before we … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, On Writing, Travel
Tagged adventure, Jack London, leather jacket, memoir, Navy flight jacket, traveling, Writing
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Adventures
I am reminded of when I stood at the freeway entrance, my thumb out, ready to hitchhike off into the unknown, at the start of my first great journey. I wrote about this experience in my memoir, “World Without Pain: … Continue reading