The Walking Dead on AMC is my favorite show since the X-Files. I’ve watched each season with anticipation and when the last season ended a few weeks back, I went into withdrawals. Yep, those kind of withdrawals. The ones that…
book reviews
greens by Bennie Herron: a poetry interpretation/review… it’s never simple
by CD Burns • • 0 Comments
While I have reviewed, discussed and analyzed a number of books on the site, I really haven’t lent my perspective and random observations to poetry. Well, I have discussed a lot of poetry, but I haven’t devoted a review to…
The Dragon’s Tooth: Ashtown Burials 1 by N.D. Wilson – a review
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Typically my reviews are less reviewish and more analysis, but what does that matter? They are all pretty informative so what do you expect of this one? Okay, you see the cover? Kid with dark hair, the author’s name has…
The Bond: More than a review
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Last week I bought Gil Scott Heron’s final cd “I’m New Here”. For a week straight I have played this album from beginning to end while driving around the city taking care of my small business. As an avid Gil…
Honky: Another quirky book review
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This is one of the few times that I get to write the word Honky and not feel kind of funny about writing it. Therefore I am going to write the word Honky every few words simply to establish that…
Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America – an analysis
by CD Burns • • 2 Comments
Disintegration written by Eugene Robinson (Washington Post) is a carefully drawn discussion on Black America in the 21st century. Actually, the book is an analysis of all Black people in the post civil rights era. While race in America remains…
Rework by Jason Fried and David Hansson
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What is Rework? Rework is a book on rethinking what it is to be a small business person. The book was written by the founders of 37signals. Real quick, what I just did by inserting their link into this blog…
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown: A review
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Dan Brown has crafted several novels that resulted in a massive number of sales and in all honesty created an industry in tourism. His novels Angels and Demons and The Davinci Code sparked tours and ignited a fascination with symbols,…
Dexter is Delicious: Kind of a review
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I have finally reached the fifth installment in the Dexter Series. Last week my wife showed my a gif on Tumblr. In this rotating gif a man was dragging himself from his living room sofa with his legs laying behind…
Dexter by Design: A review
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In the fourth book in the Dexter series, Jeff Lindsay continues the struggle of the forensic blood spatter analyst/serial killer Dexter Morgan. After reading the previous books, I expected to get back to fireworks, or better bloodworks in the fourth…
Dexter In The Dark: A review
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The third book in Jeff Lindsay’s Dexter series, Dexter in the Dark, takes a detour from the first and second novels. Upon being introduced to the dark hero Dexter, I found myself drawn to the simplistic nature of his horrible,…
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest: A review
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Stieg Larsson writes with an attention to detail of an investigative journalist seeking to create a narrative that educates and entertains. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest is an excellent work of fiction that has the mimesis and verisimilitude…
The Girl Who Played With Fire: A review
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A couple of days ago, I did a grand disservice to Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. I sandwiched a review of the book into the middle of a social commentary on whether Blacks read White books. Honestly,…
"Catching the Wild Waiyuuzee" – book review
by LV Burns • • 0 Comments
I just had to write a review about this book, Catching the Wild Waiyuuzee (Written by Rita Williams-Garcia, Illustrated by Mike Reed), because it has definitely become one of my two-year-old daughter’s favorites. It is a lovely story about a…