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This is a blog about recreational hobbies that I am interested in (music, TV, movies, books). I also talk about what's on my mind or things that happen in life around me. Please feel free to post comments; I want this to be an interactive dialogue. If you like what you read, please share it with your friends. Thanks.

Thursday, November 6, 2025

Book Review: God's Junk Drawer

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Forty years ago, the Gather family—James, his daughter Beau, and his son Billy—vanished during a whitewater rafting trip and were presumed...
Friday, October 31, 2025

Book Review: Superhero

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A-list actor Peter Compton and producing partner Marci Levy exist in the rarefied air of Hollywood’s elite. Their status as a married powe...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Book Review: Across the Universe

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From Wordle to Spelling Bee, we live in a time of word game mania. Crosswords in particular gained renewed popularity during the COVID-19 ...
Sunday, October 26, 2025

Book Review: 100 Rules for Living to 100

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Dick Van Dyke danced his way into our hearts with iconic roles in Mary Poppins , Chitty Chitty Bang Bang , and The Dick Van Dyke Show . No...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

Book Review: Uncharted Territory

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Did you know that hit songs in the late 1950s were regularly about gruesome death? That a US vice president wrote a number one hit? That w...
Sunday, October 19, 2025

Book Review: Write a Dystopian Novel

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Write a Dystopian Novel guides writers of all experience levels through the tropes and themes that exist within the dystopian setting, th...
Saturday, October 18, 2025

Book Review: How Walt Disney Changed Animation Forever

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Most biographies of Walt Disney cover the full span of his life and the full history of his studio, from its start in 1923 until his death...
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Martin Maenza
Macomb, Michigan, United States
Previously I was a software developer in the retail industry. Late in life, I got my master's degree in library science and became an adult services librarian at my local public library.
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