jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20255 min readOne Small Scene: “A Quiet Thing”“It is such a quiet thing. To fall. But far more terrible, is to admit it.” Kreia, Darth Traya, possibly Arren Kae are all names...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20253 min readReader’s Recommendation: The New Encyclopaedia of Modern Bodybuilding, by Arnold Schwarzenegger It was a classic in the 80s, it’s mentioned in passing by joking gym channels today, and I think critically for fans of literature The...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20253 min readReader’s Recommendation: The Fencing Master, by Arturo Pérez-ReverteThe entirety of the novel and its epigraphs all come together at the very end, in a sequence that cuts very quickly like fencing itself....
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20253 min readReader’s Recommendation: The Song of the Cid, translated by Burton Raffel
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20256 min readReader’s Recommendation: L.A. Confidential, by James EllroyThis novel is brutal. Rude. I was apathetic about advertising it on a couple of sites honestly due to how people can virulently react to...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20256 min readReader’s Recommendation: The Beautiful and Damned, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20255 min readReader’s Recommendation: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, by George Raymond Richard Martin
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20255 min readReader’s Recommendation: The Dew Breaker, by Edwidge DanticatI don’t want to spoil this novel, so even broad strokes are best kept to avoid spoilers. But the unfolding nature of this novel is a...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20255 min readReader’s Recommendation: The Red and the Black, by StendhalNote: The following review is spoiler free. Entries in the series will give impressions and merits of the novel, but no synopsis or...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20251 min readNo One and NoneNo one likes you Until they smile for lack of sight. No one respects you Among the ranks of the contemptable. No one stands for you...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20251 min readAcquaintanceWalk one way A face, not quite forgotten Not even known May have been another on the list But offer your help Feel a fool or not And...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20251 min readI Pray It Haunts HereafterMy flesh and bones Are owned to make weals Callous and harden In pursuit of my strengths As it pliantly obeys follies No true...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20251 min readGhan and KrishnaA wise man And his loving wife Offer shelter and the sweet living treat Of Nepalese doughnuts, plumbs and curried meat How many humans...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20251 min readMealWe part flesh Talk and discuss our meals Yet how few stop to think Why are we alive To what manner is our fuel given What beats within...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20251 min readLose Not Your VenturesOne cannot feel their freedom without steel Begin to be well without sighting sickness See the light bereft of kindling All we have are...
