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More Human Than Human

X-23: Innocence Lost by Craig Kyle, Christopher Yost

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I’ve been on a late oughts X-Force kick, lately. That run has been my comic book introduction to X-23, aka Laura. (If you’ve seen the movie Logan, Laura is the lil’ Wolverine. That was my first encounter with the character.) The Laura character is terrifying and hilarious in X-Force. She’s so efficiently brutal that you always wonder whether she’s a judgment call away from hacking into pieces a character you like. Kind of weird vibe for a teammate. She’s funny in the way Guardians of the Galaxy’s Drax is funny – a deadly fish out of water. The character is […]

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10/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:62 |

A Starting Point for Christian Mysticism

The Way of the Mystics: Ancient Wisdom for Experiencing God Today by John Michael Talbot, Steve Rabey

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Earlier this year I wrote a review of Yumi Sakugawa’s Your Illustrated Guide To Becoming One With The Universe, which is a charming and profound comic that helps the reader meditate on and contemplate life. I also reviewed Martin Laird’s Into the Silent Land and compared that book to The Matrix for thoughtful Christians. Keeping in the same neighborhood of meditative searchers, I’m reviewing The Way of the Mystics. I picked this one up at Half-Price Books a decade ago, but it never felt like the right time to read it until now. Sometimes, you just have to wait. In The Way, Catholic singer/songwriter/monk/hippie John […]

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10/1/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:61 |

A Nice, Relaxing Lakehouse Getaway…Just Kidding!

The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler

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The Lady in the Lake, Chandler’s fourth Philip Marlowe novel, gets the private eye out of 1940s Los Angeles and into the California countryside. You would think the hard-boiled detective is just looking for a little TLC after all the murders and blackjacks to the skull, but that’s not his style. Just look at the title! Trouble seems to follow Marlowe like a hangover fart.  This is a different kind of Marlowe novel, in my opinion. The previous books featured a more sardonic, cosmopolitan, up-for-anything detective. The books were lighter on plot and denser with zingers. Lady has a plot that […]

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9/20/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:60 |

“He knew only that the child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.”

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

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This book sat on my shelf for a decade because I was too scared to read it. It’s great, everyone said. It’s great, but it’s heavy. It is both of those things. It’s also, unexpectedly, the best book on fatherhood I’ve ever read. More on that later. Plotwise, The Road is not paving (haha) any new terrain: An apocalyptic event occurred within the last decade, and the survivors are trying to eke out an existence. The main threat isn’t the scarred earth – it’s the other survivors. The author focuses on a man and his son, and their journey to the […]

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9/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:59 |

Fun Trivia, Including Why We Say “Jock Strap” and “Beef”

The Mother Tongue - English and How it Got That Way by Bill Bryson

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I recently reviewed a book about how the 178 printed miles of the Oxford English Dictionary was created. Concurrent with that book, I was also listening to Bill Bryson’s The Mother Tongue.  While I wouldn’t say that one book was better than the other, I will say that if i had to pick only one, I’d pick this one. The wider scope of Bryson’s book gives you a little bit of everything – swear words, where names from come (think about “Goldwater” for a second), why kids’ instinct about grammar is right and adults are wrong – all kinds of interesting things! […]

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9/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:58 |

The Oxford English Dictionary Was Basically Wikipedia

The Professor and the Madman by Simon WInchester

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Fans of Comedy Central’s tv show “Drunk History” may be familiar with the story of Dr. William Minor: The Civil War doctor showed signs of struggling with mental health during and after the war (how could one not), and moved to London for a fresh start. Unfortunately, Dr. Minor suffered from the beliefs that all kinds of people were out to get him, and those beliefs led him to shoot an innocent stranger in cold blood. The American was institutionalized.  Concurrently, Professor James Murray was in charged of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) project. While other dictionaries in English and other […]

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9/7/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:57 |

Believe the Enneagram Hype

The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective by Ricahrd Rohr, Andreas Ebert

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I was skeptical about this book for two reason. When something is trendy, like the Enneagram, I hate it by default. (The first version of this book, to be fair, was from the 1980s.) I’ve also done a lot of introspective exercises in the last few years, and at this point I’m a bit skeptical of more of it.The reason is, at some point I think you have to focus less on yourself and more on the rest of the cosmos. I was mentally primed to not finish this book. About halfway through, though, it was obvious this would be […]

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9/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:56 |

A Collection of Entertaining Postmodern “Mystery” Novel(s).

The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

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I stumbled onto this book because I was chatting up an acquaintance and I mentioned I was into hard-boiled mysteries. He said, “Oh, you might like The New York Trilogy“. In retrospect, that’s like saying, “Oh, you like the show Friends? You might also like the movie Requiem for a Dream. It also has stuff about friends and family dynamics!” This is…different than what I had in mind. The only other way to talk about this book is to talk about talking about this book. It’s a mystery novel, but it’s not really a mystery novel. It’s really some postmodern/literary/linguistic/philosophical […]

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8/25/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:55 |


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