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The Reading List: Ruminations of a Recovering Academic by Leslie Shimotakahara

“The Reading List” is an uncensored blog memoir about an English professor going AWOL on the profession she thought she would love, while her corporate high-flyer father takes up reading for the first time. With each new book she discusses with her father – introducing him to diverse literary masters from Joyce to Hemingway to Faulkner to Atwood – . . .

An ongoing series, with new episodes twice weekly.
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The Complete History of Adam Panflick by Stephen C. Rose

Panflick is an online novel in the manner of Tom Jones. It deals with the limits of marriage, limits of family, limits of religion and limits of life. Its hero is Adam Panflick (1936 -). Irony, iconoclasm, a Terry Southern edge and a Kubrick sensibility suggest its general drift. . . .

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Ascalon, Ohio by K.P.B. Stevens

Weren’t you paying attention? The monsters live here. They just help us enter the world of folly by being so weird. We look at them and think, ‘well, if that can exist then anything can exist,’ and we’re there, in the world of folly. A serial about the fictional town of Ascalon, Ohio, set in the present.  The story . . .

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The Tom Drake Experience by Seth Kinnett

Fashion. Fiction. Flow.

A young professional in Chicago discovers the nebulous power of style, which subsequently threatens to consume him as he propels himself towards the American Dream.  . . .

A serialized novel, updating monthly.
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Corvus by L. Lee Lowe

In an alternate present the minds of teen offenders are uploaded into computers for rehabilitation—a form of virtual wilderness therapy.  Zach is a homo cognoscens, one of the new humans who can navigate the Fulgrid. Though still a high school student, he is indentured to the Fulgur Corporation as a counsellor.  Laura is a homo sapiens.  Their story is part . . .

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The London Archaeologist by Rupert Waldron

The credit crunch building slump has caused the number of London archaeological sites to dry up, leaving time on the Archaeologist’s hands to start to notice unsuspected things in the world around him.  There are people, groups of people, beings of some sort, living among the general populace, but with something different about them: are they some sort of deity?  . . .

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THE TOM DRAKE EXPERIENCE

A serious character study

Editor: Chris Poirier
September 6, 2008

Tom Drake is deeply insecure.  He hates all that he was.  He wishes to be someone else.

It isn’t often that I find myself disagreeing with Grace’s reviews, but on The Tom Drake Experience, I totally do.  I’m not going to go so far as to say it’s brilliant, but, to [more . . .]

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CORVUS

Corvus

Member: Loribeth215
February 16, 2010

Corvus takes place in a world where two types of humans exist, the superior (homo cognocens), and supposedly inferior (homo sapiens). In this story, Zach is of the superior breed, while Laura is what we’d consider a normal human.

At its heart, Corvus is a tale of two young people from [more . . .]

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