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The Value of 'Sitting on a Project'

I've written about 85000 words on my project. I've let it sit for over six months and now I've begun proof-reading it a second time. I've...

The First Christmas Movie of 2020

The first Christmas movie of 2020 and it's only October. It wasn't until the movie was reaching its conclusion, where the sentimentality ...

The Theory of Everything

This book is great for the layman, students, scientists and the curious. Don Lincoln covers everything from the flavor of neutrinos, the...

A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs

I enjoyed Ben Garrod’s, A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs – Who Needs Bones? for its informative nature about dinosaurs and learned things t...

In the First Circle

Why would I choose to review a book of this magnitude? I can only say that names like Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Solzhenitsyn are names tha...

Handwriting to Text

When it comes to creativity artists and writers may often try new materials or technology to help their productivity. For a writer, the ...

Sartre

Sartre is one of those names that vaguely flashes through one's life if you were exposed to it and it is one of those names, like Dostoev...

Nanowrimo

November is the month when people from all over the world decide whether to do one of two things. They decide if they have time in betwe...

The Curious and Creative Mind

The Curious and Creative Mind There is nothing I admire more than a curious mind. When it comes to a problem, it is the curious mind tha...

Castle Hangnail

Definitely a good light-hearted tale that makes you root for the underdog. In this case, Molly Utterback who is pretending to be a wicked...

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