Book Review

Tender is the Flesh

Casey

I’m a carnivore. Not like on the carnivore diet. Although I eat woefully few vegetables. Let’s just say that I eat enough fruit and vegetables, in combination with my vitamins and supplements, that my chances of getting scurvy are not nonexistent. I can’t not eat meat; the perfectly cooked, medium rare sirloin (or baseball-cut filet mignon) that is paired with a delicious bearnaise… All I’m saying is that I love me a good steak. I don’t need to know where it comes from, how it’s made, or anything like that.

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Book Review

The Grapes of Wrath

Casey

I remember in high school having the choice of reading The Grapes of Wrath or To Kill a Mockingbird for class. I chose the latter. I was glad, too. I actually read Mockingbird and genuinely liked it. I also remember after we read the books, the students who read The Grapes of Wrath were all a-twitter about that final scene. Now that I’ve read it… I understand.

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Book Review

Black Sunday

Casey

With this book, I have now read everything by Thomas Harris. A whopping six novels – 4 of which feature Hannibal Lecter. This was not a Lecter novel. It was, in fact, Harris’s first novel and a response to the Munich Olympic massacre in 1972.

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Batman: Resurrection

Casey

Do you miss the days when the Batman movies were kinda campy but not overly campy. When they were dark but not overly dark? Do you wish you could dive back into the Michael Keaton days as Batman – between Batman and Batman Returns? Do you wish there was more connective tissue between those two movies? Are you getting as tired as I am with all these questions? Well, I’ve just got one thing to say to you:

Stop what you’re doing and read this book!

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