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When Faith Faces Evil: The Winged Watchman
30 November 2025 When Faith Faces Evil: The Winged Watchman by Hilda Van Stockum My journey to writing THE DAWN was not linear. It was a circuitous series of intriguing steps, that led to other steps. Each one granted me information and insights. I was largely, if not completely, unaware of those creative dimensions until the summer of 2008 when I set out to compose THE DAWN. Once I started to write this novel, I was in for a penny, in for a pound. A very large pound!
Nov 30
Captain Blood - Book Report
August 2025 PAGE ONE CAPTAIN BLOOD His Odyssey by Rafael Sabatini Chapter I The Messenger “PETER BLOOD, bachelor of medicine and...
Jul 29
The House Style: Words, Words, Words
8 April 2025 To quote the lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner from the song, Show Me, in My Fair Lady — with slight revisions by me: Words,...
Apr 8
The People Sing
March 2025 On Labor Day 2013, I posted this essay on my newly created website. The title, Blithely Unaware , refers to my attitude...
Mar 5
Maria Callas: What’s A Little Myth-Making?
20 August 2024 If one sets aside the tragic life that Maria Callas lived, then the majesty of her artistry can be appreciated. If one...
Aug 20, 2024
Book Reviews
5 July 2024 Pity me, or don’t pity me, cause I reject pity, but, at times, for pleasure, or mere distraction of an empty kind, I read...
Jul 5, 2024
The Heart of the Matter: Devil’s Advocate/L’Avocat du diable
Spring Reading 2024 I begin this book review of the French version of a 1959 novel by Australian author Morris West (26 April 1916 - 9...
Apr 18, 2024
The Great American Broadcast
February 2024 The Great American Broadcast A Celebration of Radio’s Golden Age by Leonard Maltin An admitted child of the TV...
Jan 26, 2024
New Bookends
26 January 2024 This morning, I decided to re-open the Book Review section with a new set of bookends. I’ve an opening salvo, a...
Jan 25, 2024
Closing Bookend
Summer’s End 2020 This ship has sailed! The Book Reports section of my website is now officially closed, and joyfully so. I am much more...
Sep 19, 2020
Castles in Spain - Don Quixote
July 2020 The masterpiece of Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote , has become more of a romantic legend than the romantic...
Jul 1, 2020
Montaigne: Des Cannibales
Halloween 2019 They just don’t do cannibalism like they used to! Such was my response after reading “Des Cannibales,” Of Cannibals, the...
Oct 31, 2019
The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo: Treasure Island
May 2019 The X Marks the Spot The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo: Treasure Island (Adapted for Television by Walter Black) A Book Review...
Aug 9, 2019
Disney on Strike! Part II
August 2019 The Wonderful World Beyond Disney: by Ronald Milligan After the Walt Disney Strike of 1941, things were never the same for...
Aug 1, 2019
Disney on Strike!
July 2019 Prelude During the autumn of 2018, Debra began to read what is deemed the definitive biography of Walter Elias Disney — Walt...
Jul 1, 2019
Revolution! Almost a Miracle
Summer Reading 2019 Almost a Miracle by John Ferling Published 2007 It is with enormous pleasure that I am reading this book about the...
Jun 21, 2019
Glorious Technicolor
Spring 2019 Spring into Technicolor Resistance to Change What’s Old Is New! The forces that oppose change — and form resistance to...
Mar 20, 2019
Mr. Magoo's The Count of Monte Cristo
March 2019 The Count Counts - Mr. Magoo's The Count of Monte Cristo A Book Review by Ronald Milligan There is nothing like the strains of...
Mar 1, 2019
Mr. Magoo’s Cyrano de Bergerac
February 2019 Mr. Magoo’s Cyrano de Bergerac (Adapted for the Screen by True Boardman) A Book Review by Ronald Milligan The original...
Feb 1, 2019
Retreat into Tomorrow
Epiphany 2019 The Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life in the 1800s by Marc McCutcheon Hardcover - 320 pages Writers Digest Books First...
Jan 6, 2019
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