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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie is a memoir going over the events before, during, and afterwards of the attempted murder of the author himself on August 12 of 2022. To be quite honest and clear, I had never heard of Salman Rushdie before this attack. I do remember getting notifications of…
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All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera goes into great detail on how the Great Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 came to be. It was either this book or “Too Big to Fail” by Andrew Sorkin. I chose the former because it’s supposed to go…
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Here we go again! Back at it with another horror movie coming out of Thailand! Surprisingly, Death Whisperer was a pretty decent movie. Sure, as with seemingly all Asian horror flicks hailing from countries such as Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia, to name a few off the top of my head that I’ve watched, the themes…
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The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger is a fantastic literary historical fiction piece of work. It explores some of the racial problems we face today but focuses mainly on the Native Americans in a small town in Jewel, Minnesota. While the story takes place a little after World War II, racial issues are…
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Not a very interesting mini-murder series. However, I’m usually down to watch some foreign films or series. And yes, one must watch them in their native language audio. Subs over dubs, as the saying goes. At only six episodes of about 40 minutes each, spanning two different mysteries, it was a quick binge. The problem…
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I’m sorry, Hong Kong’ers, but I’m hearing a lot more catchy and memorable songs coming out of Taiwan each week on Spotify, and it’s not even close. A lot of the songs coming out of Hong Kong from the playlist I’ve subscribed to on Spotify are just plain boring. Whereas in Taiwan, their R&B hits…
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Watching two movies regarding humans turning into wolves and werewolves in less than a month apart must be a new record for me. Werewolves was a pretty atrocious movie. Could Wolf Man clean things up and provide some good, fun entertainment in this mythical creature genre? Sadly, no, it doesn’t. What’s worse is that it’s…
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Looking for a good horror movie to start 2025? The Damned starring Odessa Young should be on your to-watch list. As a slow burner of a horror movie, it creates a suffocating atmosphere full of dread based on Nordic folklore. It surrounds Eva, a young widow in the 19th century who happens to be the…
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It’s a fact of life that you’re going to be disappointed. It just can’t be helped. Whether it’s soggy leftover pizza in the refrigerator for dinner yet again, not making enough salary to fuel your wild imaginative lifestyle, or purchasing a large scented candle only to find that it doesn’t smell as you’d expect, but…
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The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea talks about a true story in the early 2000s regarding a group of illegal “entrants” who tried their luck crossing the Mexican border into the United States and how horribly the mission went for many of them. The book became a national bestseller and even a Pulitzer finalist.…
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