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Continue reading →: Quick Link – Book Review: Faithful Place; The Wolves of Fairmount Park – WSJ.com
It’s nice to see Tana French getting such good coverage in the US! Some thriller writers burst onto the scene in a sudden blaze of hype, while others bubble under the level of mass awareness for years before gaining a significant following. Two authors who have been steadily attracting fans—but…
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Continue reading →: Quick Link – Bozo Sapiens: The Rainbow Warrior Sinking: Necessity
Another fine post from the Bozo Sapiens folks! Seeing an opening, Greenpeace campaigners brought their flagship, Rainbow Warrior, to New Zealand. Their plan was to sail into the military exclusion zone around the atoll, forcing the French to abandon their tests for fear of endangering life. It was a gesture,…
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Continue reading →: The Election of Jack Murphy in 1957 | The Irish Story
Interesting and scarily relevant article about an unemployed TD in 1957 Ireland. In the Dáil / Hunger strike Murphy had difficulty trying to get answers to even the most basic questions in the Dáil. He could not even get an answer to how much unemployment relief money was being spent…
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Continue reading →: Quick Link: Midleton & Fermoy Books: Appaloosa – Robert B. Parker
A nice review on the rather excellent review blog over at Midleton & Fermoy books. The novel is narrated from the viewpoint of Everett Hitch the friend and partner of Virgil Cole. The two are itinerant lawmen in the American west of 1882, hired to sort out the problems of…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This: Pirates’ wages
A very fine post by Brian O’Leary over at Magellan Media Partners: The story broke pretty fast, and various news organizations struggled with how to “cover” a story for which the content was effectively unavailable. Time.com and Politico decided the story was the story, and so “fair use” could justify…
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