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Ach! Zombies!

Alright. So I’m back on a fiction kick. It’s been years, really. I started with a Christine Dodd book called … More

books into films, books into movies, Christine Dodd, fantasy, film adaptations, Horror, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In, Paranormal Fiction, Scent of Darkness, Scott Kenemore, supernatural, vampire, zombie, Zombies Ohio

Zombies, Vampires and the Last People on Earth: an Integrated Review of I Am Legend, Warm Bodies, The Road and; The Walking Dead

Zombies, Vampires and the Apocalypse are on everyone’s mind these days (well, maybe not everyone), and I’ve been studying up … More

apocalypse, books into films, books into movies, classic, Cormac McCarthy, graphic novel, Horror, Isaac Marion, Richard Matheson, Robert Kirkman, science fiction, vampires, zombie

The Assassination of Hole-in-the-Day by Anton Treuer (Borealis, 2010)

This is a superbly researched, deftly written history of what is now known as Minnesota and the Native people of … More

Aboriginal People, Anton Treuer, historical, Minnesota, nonfiction, Ojibwe

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

This book is, was, and always will be awesome…in my humble opinion. Written in 1940, I, Robot was way ahead … More

Asimov, classic, futuristic, Isaac Asimov, Positronic Brains, Robots, science fiction

Gateway to Atlantis: the Search for the Source of a Lost Civilization by Andrew Collins

You might already be familiar with the myth of Atlantis. The Greek genius, Plato, wrote about it in his famous … More

Andrew Collins, archaeology, Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean, Atlantis, Cuba, Europe, History, Mediterranean, nonfiction

Caesar: Life of a Colossus by Adrian Goldsworthy

Rome was crazy. Senators would fight, sometimes literally, for prestige and any chance to prove themselves worthy of being a … More

Adrian Goldsworthy, Ancient Rome, biography, Caesar, historical, nonfiction, Politics

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

I’m not a big fan of fiction in general, nor do I readily jump on the bandwagon, so it was … More

award winner, books into films, books into movies, Cormac McCarthy, literature, Pulitzer Prize

Helpless: Caledonia’s Nightmare of Fear and Anarchy, and How the Law Failed All of Us by Christie Blatchford

If you have never ventured into the quagmire of First Nations and Canadian issues, laws, acts and history, then this … More

Blatchford, Caledonia, Christie Blatchford, First Nations, nonfiction, OPP, Six Nations

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Twain’s writing is of a similar caliber to J.R.R Tolkien. Both writers have a poetic, descriptive and timeless feel to … More

classic, literature, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer

North Spirit: Travels Among the Cree and Ojibway Nations and Their Star Maps by Paulette Jiles

It took me 8 years to read this book. No kidding. I first picked it up in Sioux Lookout when … More

Cree, Ethnoastronomy, Native People, nonfiction, Ojibway, Paulette Jiles

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