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IFcomp 08 reviews: Opening Night

This is a review of a game in the 2008 Interactive Fiction Competition. This text is so spoilers do not show up in the RSS feed. That would be less than polite. The feed is set to truncated, not full....

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IFcomp 08 reviews: Berrost's Challenge

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IFcomp 08 reviews: Buried In Shoes

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IFcomp08 reviews: Trein

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Kristin Hersh, Old Town School of Folk Music, Dec. 7, 2008

This was the reason for my trip to Chicago, as anyone who's spoken to me in the past few months knows. (Sorry, everyone. I promise I'll have more than two conversation topics again.) The concert itself...

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The Best Albums of (What I've Heard Of ) 2008

2008 was a weird year for me.If I construct this list strictly by what I liked most in 2008, then Kristin Hersh's _Speedbath_ would take the first-place spot and probably second and third as well....

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June 18, 2009: Timothy Findley - Pilgrim

To Kessler it seemed that two wind-blown angels had tumbled down from heaven and were moving towards the steps. The figures of these angels now stood in momentary disorientation, reaching out with...

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July 5, 2009: Three novellas by Michel Faber

The reviewer who recommended Michel Faber to me (based on liking "The Observations" by Jane Harris) deserves a medal. This is what reviews are for. Not for coming up with the most exquisite,...

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August 22, 2009: Let's talk about books.

By my counts, I read more than 2,000 pages on vacation. Two thousand pages, spread across five books. This shouldn't be as surprising as it is. The people at the airport, both going and returning, were...

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Adventures in Kate Bush and Theory reviewed

(Suggested music for this post: The KT Bush Band - Come Together. Thanks to woj for the link.)I'm on all counts the target audience for Adventures in Kate Bush and Theory by Deborah Withers. I've been...

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June 7, 2010: I read things sometimes

Last year, I told myself I'd read fifty books, as part of a friendly competition with some others. It didn't work out quite that way; I fell short. Embarrassingly short. So short I'm not going to tell...

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Kate Atkinson's Not the End of the World: Charlene and Trudi Go Shopping

This is the first of a twelve-part series reviewing the short stories in Kate Atkinson's 2002 collection of short stories, Not the End of the World. In this particular story: goat cheese farming,...

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Kate Atkinson's Not the End of the World: Tunnel of Fish

This is the second of a twelve-part series reviewing the short stories in Kate Atkinson's 2002 collection of short stories, Not the End of the World. In this particular story: Greek gods, geek gods,...

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Kate Atkinson's Not the End of the World: Transparent Fictions

This is the third of a twelve-part series reviewing the short stories in Kate Atkinson's 2002 collection of short stories, Not the End of the World. In this particular story, "Transparent Fiction":...

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Kate Atkinson's Not the End of the World: Dissonance

This is the fourth of a twelve (maybe thirteen?)-part series reviewing the short stories in Kate Atkinson's 2002 collection of short stories, Not the End of the World. In this particular story,...

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Kate Atkinson's Not the End of the World: Sheer Big Waste of Love

This is the fifth of a now-thirteen-part series reviewing the short stories in Kate Atkinson's 2002 collection of short stories, Not the End of the World. In this particular story, "Sheer Big Waste of...

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New site

Since I'm still getting some traffic over here, I thought I'd give a heads up.My new site is live at http://www.sarahmorayati.com -- my reviews and essays can be found there as well, including 2010 IF...

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