Category: Humor

2084: The Obesity Farms, by Edd Tury

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The cover of a book titled "2084: The Obesity Farms" by Edd Tury. The background features a rustic wooden wall with an old wagon wheel and a tree trunk. A small creature with glowing eyes peeks out from the foliage at the bottom of the image.

Review by Mack Hassler   “…so 1984 teaches us, the danger with which all men are confronted today, the danger of a society of automatons who will have lost every trace of individuality, of love….                                              Erich Fromm, “Afterword to 1984” (1949) I think good writers feel safe when they…

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Off the Hook: Off-Beat Reporters Tales from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, by Nancy Besonen

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Off the hook by nancy besson.

Review by Mack Hassler I like a book that has resonance.  Both fiction and non-fiction, whether history or memoir or journalism, can contain good resonance.  Further, in my opinion, the best echo or resonance is with faith or philosophic issues.  Therefore, to select two titles from what was at the…

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