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Sex & God
Darrel Ray, Ed.D
Why are all the major religions consumed with sex? What makes sex so important, whether Buddhism or Islam, Christianity or Mormonism? What is the impact of religion on human sexuality? This book explores this and more. It ventures into territory that has never been examined. You will be surprised at how much religion has influenced your sexuality, who you marry, the pleasure you get or don’t get from sex, and what you can do about it.
April Fool’s Day
I saw this Tweet from the OED earlier and it got me thinking.
Our earliest recorded example of ‘April fool’ (the victim of a trick or hoax on the first of April) is from 1693. #AprilFoolsDay — The OED (@OED)
500th post!
Good lord, this is my five hundredth post. I’m going to use it to review a book, which isn’t a great surprise I suppose.
Review:
Revelations
The Merlin Chronicles Book One
Daniel Diehl
Pub Date Sep 30 2013
Review:’Intervention: The Pandora Virus’ by WRR Munro
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Review: ‘Steam City Pirates’ by Jim Musgrave
Steam City Pirates
Jim Musgrave
Pub Date: Dec 1 2013
Like Alice’s rabbit, a strange “mechanical-like man” leads 1869 New York Detective Pat O’Malley down into the world of steam power. A group from the future calling itself the World Scientific Advancement Society for Progress is living secretly beneath Central Park. These pirates are inventors whose only goal is to keep the Earth in the Steam Age in order to save it from a future nuclear holocaust. Five alien assassins from other universes are ordered to kill O’Malley and his group, and each alien has a unique ability to do the job. As the Steam City Pirates build a steam-powered amusement park on Coney Island, O’Malley and his group are hunted down in the streets of New York City. The future of the world is at stake in this mystery and adventure featuring a twisting plot, steampunk time travel, steam men duels, crafty inventions, and monsters from other planets.
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Review: ‘The Season of the Witch’ by Natasha Mostert
Portable Magic Ltd.
Jan 31 2014 (Originally published 2007)
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Review: ‘Back Story: A Memoir’ by David Mitchell
I think I just found a new hero
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Review: ‘The True Lives of The Fabulous Killjoys’
Written by Gerard Way and Shaun Simon
Artwork by Becky Cloonan
20th May 2014
Dark Horse Comics

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