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Finished reading The Roman Cult of Mithras: The God and His Mysteries

Rated Doctor Who: The Last Day at Work 10/10

I think this is my favorite of the Memorial Contest entries. Now we know who that police officer was at the start of the very first episode, yes?

Wants to read Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way

Wants to read Outlaws of the Marsh (3-Volume Hardcover Set) by Shi Nai'An and Luo GuanZhong

Wants to read Pilgrim: A Medieval Horror

Wants to read The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848

Wants to read The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

Reading Jupiter: The Planet, Satellites and Magnetosphere

Wants to read The Forever War

Rated The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself 10/10

Wants to read The History of the Rebellion: A New Selection

Wants to read The Iron King

Wants to read Trial by Battle: The Hundred Years War, Volume 1

Reading Measuring National Power in the Postindustrial Age: Analyst's Handbook

Rated Dead Man's Hand 8/10

Wants to read Magic in the Middle Ages

Finished reading Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius

Wants to read The Darkness That Comes Before

Rated The Ocean at the End of the Lane 8/10

It is not that the unfolding events are particularly difficult to understand, but I felt an undercurrent of symbolism that I knew I was missing because of my greedy turning of the pages. Gaiman, of course, writes beautifully, in that full-on heart-swelling way that identifies tricky emotions that one could not previously name. The nightmares of children exist in a language that is often impenetrable to adults, but he writes with such a direct insight to those dreams that we begin to remember what it was like to have them.<br><br>My full review appears at <a href="http://persephonemagazine.com/2013/09/book-review-the-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane-by-neil-gaiman/">Persephone Magazine</a>.

Rated Stop Me If You've Heard This One 8/10

<div>Really liked this. Cherry is an endearing mess, and the story about figuring out who you are and what you want is a good one.&nbsp;</div>

Wants to read The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477–1806

Wants to read [The Jacobites: Britain and Europe 1688-1788 (New Frontiers in History)] [Author: Szechi, D.] [May, 1994]

Reading Generals and Admirals, Criminals and Crooks: Dishonorable Leadership in the U.S. Military

Wants to read The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom

Wants to read The Goblin Emperor