Fredrick Turner

Reflections

Book review

Book review

  • Book Notes: Battle for the Big Top

    I remember seeing the circus when I was young – probably around first grade or maybe younger. Curiously it’s one of the few childhood memories I have retained as I don’t remember much of that time. It was in the long gone Forbes Field in Pittsburgh – the site of the University of Pittsburgh business… Continue reading

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  • Book Notes: MaddAddam

    MaddAddam is the final book in Margaret Atwood’s trilogy of the same name. Like its predecessors, the novel takes place in a world of climate change, the aftermath of a deadly plague, and the consequences of genetic engineering. While Oryx and Crake was Jimmy aka Snowman’s story and The Year of the Flood focused on… Continue reading

  • Book Notes: The Year of the Flood

    This is the second novel in the MaddAddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood. Like Oryx and Crake, I read this about twenty years ago. However time and many other books have written over my memory and it was all new again. The Year of the Flood focuses on the lives of two women, Ren and Toby,… Continue reading

  • Book Notes: Comedy, Character & Control

    This is not my typical magic book to read as I have always struggled with the idea of a comedy magician. (Aside: I also have a struggle with magicians who bill themselves as motivational speakers but that’s best left for another day.) I believe that magic is inherently funny – weird and unusual things happen… Continue reading

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  • Book Notes: Oryx and Crake

    This probably qualifies as a reread as I read about 20 years ago. It popped up on a list of the top twenty most banned books – of which Margaret Atwood has two. The other being The Handmaid’s Tale. According to Wikipedia, it’s been banned for “objective sensitive material”. Oryx and Crake is book one… Continue reading

  • Book Notes: Blazing Eye Sees All

    I can’t recall how I learned of this book. I had put it on the Recommended Purchase list, so I was one of the first to read it from our library. Leah Sottile is a Pacific Northwest author whose work has been published in Rolling Stone, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other… Continue reading

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  • Booklet Notes: Strike One

    I’m attempting to create a Rick Johnsson bibliography with limited success; however I believe that the booklet, Strike One, was one of his earliest works. It was written for Rick by Jerry Mentzer and published by his Magic Methods in 1973. Like many publications of its time, it was printed on a pinkish-purple paper that… Continue reading

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