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The Ninja Daughter by Tori Eldridge (BR00166)

The Writing Life of a Tadpole Posted on November 10, 2019 by PolyWoggNovember 10, 2019  

The Ninja Daughter (Lily Wong)PLOT OR PREMISE:

A Chinese-American woman trained as a ninja and now protects abused women in L.A.

WHAT I LIKED

The story works on three levels for me. First, there is a mystery to solve involving multiple bad guys, politics, and a new subway being constructed (the motive is obvious, the details are not). Second, she helps women get away from their abusers, and feels a bit in places like the Jane Whitefield novels by Thomas Perry. Third, she is choosing romantically between a nice guy and a danger guy, similar to the Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovich. I had a small sense of deja vu that I knew this storyline as it progressed.

WHAT I DIDN’T LIKE

As the first story in a series, there is a lot of exposition going on. Explaining Lily’s background, her mixed Norwegian / Chinese heritage, and even some of her relationship with her parents.  » Read the rest

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Articles I Like: Seven Types of Atheism by John Gray review

The Writing Life of a Tadpole Posted on April 16, 2018 by PolyWoggMarch 24, 2019  

The Guardian published a review of an interesting-sounding book, and I thought I would share. The review itself isn’t anything special, I confess, but the book sounds good. It’s not available on Amazon Canada yet, but it appears to be an overview of the history of atheism and all its different forms.

The argument against the first five forms of atheism discussed in this book will be familiar to readers of Gray’s excoriating reviews and the greatest interest for some will lie in his discussion of the two final forms. One is entitled “Atheism without progress”, that is, without any assumption that human beings can be changed for the better…The final chapter, “The atheism of silence”, contains a surprise. It includes a discussion of a nearly forgotten author of a four-volume history of atheism, Fritz Mauthner, who argued for what he called “a godless mysticism”. Gray argues that there is in the end an affinity between the mystical element in Christianity, which stresses that God is beyond words and incomprehensible, and this form of atheism.

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Articles I Like: Dread accompanies me through life

The Writing Life of a Tadpole Posted on February 24, 2018 by PolyWoggMarch 1, 2018

Firefox has this little feature when you pull up it’s built-in home page with a search engine box — just below the box are your recently viewed webpages, nothing unusual there, but between the search and history are three articles that Firefox thinks might be of interest to you. I have no idea if they are actually using an algorithm of the web history and past searches, or just curating interesting stories, but I often find one or more of the stories worthy of clicking. I figured initially that it was just clickbait, but most of the time, when I’ve actually clicked, the article has been worth the click.

Take for instance one from today. The article is written by a philosophy professor and revolves around anxiety. It starts with some powerful events — the death of his parents — that are not powerful in terms of trauma but in their normalcy.  » Read the rest

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By the Rivers of Babylon by Nelson DeMille (BR00014)

The Writing Life of a Tadpole Posted on February 15, 2016 by PolyWoggMarch 24, 2019  

By the Rivers of BabylonPLOT OR PREMISE

Peace in the Middle East is almost assured and two concordes fly to New York with delegates for final negotiations. Terrorists try to derail the peace conference by planting bombs on board and taking the passengers hostage. After one plane is destroyed, killing all on board, the second plane is forced to land near Babylon. At the last minute, the hostages manage to escape to the top of a small hill from which they attempt to defend against the terrorists through several days of sorties, knowing that the military probably doesn’t know where they are and therefore can’t swoop in and rescue them.

WHAT I LIKED

Long before there was Clancy, there was DeMille. This book takes the international realm and stands it on its ear — there is (excruciating) details of the relations between the characters on both sides of the peace conference who are forced to work together to fight the terrorists.  » Read the rest

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Traffic accident (PH00009)

The Writing Life of a Tadpole Posted on January 26, 2016 by PolyWoggJune 24, 2017  

There was a horrible automobile crash and the driver of the car lay on the side of the road dying. A passerby said to him kindly, “why don’t you say a prayer?”

“I don’t know any,” said the stricken man.

“Haven’t you had an contact with religion?”

“As a boy we used to live next to a Catholic Church!”

“That’s it!” said the well-wisher. “Just repeat what you heard in the church!”

“Okay,” said the injured man. “Under the B-15! Under the I-22!”

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