Wisdom of Bookmonkey

Between September of 2004 and March of 2011 I worked my way slowly, one class at a time, through an online Bachelor's degree majoring ...

Valerio Massimo Manfredi's Tyrant (2005) moves away from mainland Greece and into the Greek colonies in Sicily.  Following the life of...

Last night my friend Mike and I were able to catch an advanced screening of the horror Prequel prequel Annabelle Creation , and it was pre...

So let's begin with the fact that I'm a pretty big fan of The   Dark Tower series. 1) I referred to the series in one of my very ...

So here's an interesting treat; Michael Curtis Ford's The Ten Thousand takes a look at one of my favourite films of the '70s,...

So here's the thing about perspective. For so many people Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey is pretty much the p...

Charles de Lint's 2009 novel The Mystery of Grace   starts with what appears to be a short story; a young man goes to a party, finds a...