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Name of the Wind is a wonderful coming of age story told with the hindsight of 20/20 vision. It is the story of an innkeeper named Kote, formerly Kvothe, who with the help of a passing Chronicler, who happens to be the Chronicler, tells the story of his life, or at least a portion of it.
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I can snack with the best of them. Movie marathons, binging television series, autumn weekends with lots of football, or a long evening gaming session all go better with lots of snacks.
If I had druthers for one specific snack, my favorite would be Andy Capp’s Salsa Fries. But as they don’t exist anymore, I will give a pass to Andy Capp’s Hot Fries and the many other kinds of chips and pretzels. But they are not a replacement for Salsa Fries.
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Let’s try to keep things straight. Cabal is a published book by Clive Barker containing the short novel Cabal and four short stories: The Life of Death, How Spoilers Bleed, Twilight at the Towers, and The Last Illusion.
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Now, more than ever, may be the time to unplug, unwind, and spend as much analog time as you possibly can.
At least that’s the argument that I think authors Douglas Coupland, Shumon Basar, and Hans Ulrich Obrist have made in “The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present.”
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I don’t know if this is the correct takeaway from Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery, but it seems to me the “loud hate” minority is much more powerful than the massive “love and let live” majority.
By all accounts, Lilith Fair was an outrageous success. Yes, it took its toll on founder Sarah McLachlan. After all, in three years, it played 134 dates across 54 cities and raised more than $10 million for women’s shelters and non-profits.
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