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Shelter in Place Update III: No Particular Place to Go

Shelter in Place Update III: No Particular Place to Go

Wash your hands! Stay at home! Stay safe! Stop the spread!

What do you mean Applebee’s is CLOSED!!!

A quick update. I’m doing a lot of reading and writing during quarantine. Due to my specific job situation, I alternate between a week of work and a week off. I’m on my week off.

I continue to update the CCLaP reviews. I finished up 2014. The last post I updated was my personal book picks for 2013.…

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CCLaP Fridays: There Is No End to This Slope, by Richard Fulco

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There Is No End To This Slope By Richard Fulco Wampus Multimedia Reviewed by Karl Wolff

There Is No End To This Slope, by Richard Fulco, follows the life of one textbook salesman named John Lenza. He’s dissatisfied with his work and yearns to be a writer. Unfortunately, he hasn’t written anything besides a series of letters to his dead childhood friend Stephanie. As Fulco illustrates, there is…

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CCLaP Fridays: Above All Men, by Eric Shonkwiler

Above All Men By Eric Shonkwiler Midwest Gothic Press Reviewed by Karl Wolff

Set in a post-collapse America only a few short years in the future, Above All Men by Eric Shonkwiler, tells the story of David Parrish and his family on a cattle farm. Despite its Christian tract title, Above All Mencharts the everyday struggles and tragedies of living in a society slowly decaying. Shonkwiler weaves…

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American Odd: Pack of Lies, by Gilbert Sorrentino This week I conclude my essay series American Odd by looking at Gilbert Sorrentino's postmodern masterpiece Pack of Lies.

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CCLaP Fridays: Cthulhu Fhtagn! by Ross E. Lockhart In this uncertain age filled with terrorism, racial tension, police brutality, and political strongmen, the Lovecraftian Mythos is almost reassuring.

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CCLaP Fridays: The Full Catastrophe: Travels Among the New Greek Ruins, by James Angelos Is Greece the bastion of democracy, philosophy, and the West? Or is it a backward and corrupt regime dominated by inefficient bureaucrats, political extremists, and greedy opportunists? The answer is Yes.

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CCLaP Fridays: The Great Ordeal (The Aspect Emperor: Book Three), by R. Scott Bakker Thought experiment: George R. R. Martin is The Beatles. R. Scott Bakker is The Velvet Underground.