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Once Upon a Crime by Michael Buckley

One of my favorite young adult series is the Sisters Grimm Fairy Tale Detectives series by Michael Buckley. They are everything I enjoy about YA fiction: creative, funny, nicely packaged and beautifully illustrated. My wife and I read through the first three books in the series very quickly so we were eagerly anticipating the release [...]

The King's Bishop by Candace Robb

I recently finished Candace Robb’s fourth book in her Owen Archer Mystery Series entitled The King’s Bishop. As with her previous books, she does an excellent job in bringing Medieval England to life. From the book cover: It is 1367, and the Pope and King Edward III of England are in disagreement over pluralism, a [...]

Where Are The Realists?

Quote worth thinking about from Ross Douthat: The vacuum that Paul [Congressman and Presidential candidate Ron Paul] currently occupies is supposed to be filled by an internationally-minded realism. Indeed, it’s precisely the coexistence of realism and idealism in Republican foreign policy, the fruitful tension between the two strains of thought, that has long made the [...]