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Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

May 25, 2021 by Mobius_Walker 3 Comments

Gifty is the daughter of two Ghanaian immigrants: her mother, a depressive woman who turns to American Evangelical Christianity for a respite from life, and her father, a man who abandons his family to return to his home in Ghana. Gifty has a brother: an athlete who struggles with addiction. Throughout the novel, Gifty bounces from memory to memory as she completes her doctoral work at Stanford in neurology and takes care of her mother. Each memory reveals layer after layer of who Gifty is […]

Probably more my fault than the book….

The Book of English Magic by Richard Heygate, Philip Carr-Gomm

May 26, 2019 by TheShitWizard Leave a Comment

The Book of English Magic turned out to have two very special magic powers: It made me realise that I’m nowhere near as open-minded as I think I am, and It managed to make one minute of reading fell like ten years of slogging through swampland Let me explain… Despite not being at all spiritual or religious myself, I do enjoy reading about the beliefs that some people hold as a way of trying to better understand them. Whilst I’ve often then arrived at some […]

A Grounded Story of Faith and Doubt and…Aliens

July 10, 2016 by Halbs 3 Comments

Author Mary Doria Russell is a paleoanthrolpolgist, as well as an adherent to Judaism. However, she grew up Catholic, renounced her faith as a teenager, and took up her current faith when she had children and was trying to figure out what she wanted to pass on to her children. Her professional and spiritual background put her in an interesting position to create a cerebral, unique work of speculative science fiction. The Sparrow is equally engaging and horrifying. I wanted to put it down, but I […]

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