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Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is a MASSIVE Book. This is an African Mythology Themed Fantasy Novel with some fantastic combat, great witchcraft, and awesome intrigue. This book has more trigger warnings then anything I have ever read in my life (maybe Kathy Acker comes close)–you…

The Brookhurst Hobbies Alumni continued the exploration of Omu. This week was mostly a random encounter battle against A very fun early edition monster that did fairly well against the party that consisted of Kat, Chase, Jace, & Brian.

Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness by Chögyam Trungpa My rating: 4 of 5 stars First of all, Best Title EVER! And absolutely fantastic COVER–everyone should spend at least one afternoon reading this in their local Coffee Shop… The book is YACODT (Yet Another Collection of Dharma Talks) which is a…

It happens againAs soon as I take down her book and open it. I turn the page.My skies rise higher and hang younger stars. The ship’s rail freezes.Mare Hibernicum leads to Anne Bradstreet’s coast. A blackbird leaves her pine treesAnd lands in my spruce trees. I open my door on a Dublin street.Her child/her words are…