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Category: Book Reviews

Review – The Dog Stars

Posted on October 8, 2026

After a pandemic wipes out nearly everyone on Earth, a grieving pilot who lives in an abandoned airport with his dog and a weapons-expert neighbor risks everything—flying past his point of no return—to locate the source of a mysterious voice on his airplane radio.

Review – God’s Country

Posted on October 7, 2026

A racist and cowardly white rancher named Curt Marder hires an expert tracker—a Black man named Bubba—to rescue his kidnapped wife and avenge his dead dog after marauders burn down his farm.

Review – Deadwood and Shakespeare

Posted on October 6, 2026

𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑤𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑒 examines HBO’s lawless frontier camp (𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑤𝑜𝑜𝑑 2004-2006, 2019) alongside Shakespeare’s 𝐻𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑑.

Review – The Drawing of the Three

Posted on October 5, 2026

Wounded and alone on a desolate Mid-World beach, the last gunslinger must find and open three mysterious doorways into our world to draw companions who can aid his quest to find the Dark Tower.

Review – Dr. No

Posted on October 3, 2026

Spy thriller parody about an autistic Black man recruited to help a Black billionaire who fancies himself a Bond villain.

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