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Sunday, June 5, 2022

Movie Review: Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022). Theatrical release.

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For the second time, the producers of the vastly popular Downton Abbey British TV series, about an aristocratic English family living in an...
Saturday, June 4, 2022

TV Review: Party Tricks (2014). Amazon Prime.

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Party Tricks is a 2014 Australian dramedy mini-series about a liberal female Prime Minister of Victoria (played by Asher Keddie), who sudde...

Book Review: Doomsday Book (1992). Connie Willis.

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I re-read this excellent science fiction novel recently after many years (it was a Nebula Winner, originally published in 1992). What perfe...
Friday, June 3, 2022

Book Review: The Fifth Risk (2018). Michael Lewis.

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Lewis, who is a prolific non-fiction writer with interests and expertise in the interplay of money, statistics, business and politics (as di...

TV Review: The English Game (2020). Netflix.

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Set in the late 1870s and early 1880s, this very novel period piece and docudrama mini-series shows how two young men -- one a banker and Et...
Thursday, June 2, 2022

Book Review: Great Circle (2021). Maggie Shipstead.

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As someone who has been a pilot and involved with the aviation community for part of my adult life, and fascinated with the history and ongo...
Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Movie Review: Castles in the Sky (2014). Amazon Prime.

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This BBC made-for-TV movie is about the British scientist Robert Watson Watt, a meteorologist who, after failing to produce a workable proto...

Book Review: Geniuses at War: Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age (2021). David A. Price.

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A historical side-note to the history of Bletchley Park and World War II code breaking by the British, this book focuses on the small group ...