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Book Review: Perfection by Vincenzo Petronico

Millennial couple Anna and Tom are two halves of the same dull leaf, vaguely similar, almost mirror images of one another, too afraid to be unlike one another. The author states, “Anna and Tom weren’t free to be themselves or rather free to reinvent themselves.” Together they amble through glossy high-tech design careers, while living the good life in trendy Berlin. They vacation in hotspots, do stints in Portugal and Sicily, always suffering from existential pain and the petty inconveniences of modern life. Yet the pics they posted on Facebook show an alternate reality—they weren’t really miserable; they were smiling and having a good time!


Book Review: Love & Murder

Welcome to a world where cats experience complex philosophical thought and existential pain. Love & Murder are two house cats, brother and sister, who are thrust from domestic comfort into a cruel world. The cats remember infinite bowls of milk and the honeyed voice of their owner “Lady,” who catered to their every whim. The days of on-demand feeding and ample sun spots in the garden have come to an end. Lady’s multiple coos oozing with affection have stopped. Now the two cats are strangers wandering in a strange land.


Book Review: Enduring Love by Ian McEwan

Enduring Love falls as flat as the hot-air balloon that kills the heroic family doctor John Logan in a freak accident. Logan’s death triggers a maddeningly artificial construct that masquerades as a plausible story. But because the story is told within the highbrow medium of “Literary Fiction,” anything is possible. 


Book Review: Man’s Search for Meaning

Every time I read this book I learn some nuance I had not thought of before. The thinking person or the person who chooses to think on a deeper level will always find comfort and solace from the existential pain that is inherent in the human condition.  


Book Review: Sergeant Dickinson

Sergeant Dickinson brings home the horror of the Viet Nam War wrapped in a tidy, decorative package that reeks of napalm. Sergeant Dickinson, called Dixie, is a flawed hero so damaged by the carnage of battle that he has lost his capacity to be human. He is not a beast, an asshole, or a cowboy, as any one of these singular descriptions would suggest. He’s all three descriptors rolled into one shell of a former human being.