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Robert Hamill

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    Craft Lesson from a Movie
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    Craft Lesson from a Movie

    Robert Hamill 7 Dec 202426 Dec 20241 Comment

    A movie ... trapped in a relationship with a wife who he had wronged.

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    Book Appreciation The Language of Thought
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    Book Appreciation The Language of Thought

    Robert Hamill 1 Feb 202326 Jan 2025Leave a comment

    Since I write about thinking, a review on Jerry Fodor’s The Language of Thought 1975 classic was a necessary research step. Jerry Fodor had a…

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    Wilde Lake – Book Snapshot

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    Enjoyed Laura Lippman

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    Stone Age in New Guinea
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    Stone Age in New Guinea

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    Nutritionally poor crops, not allowing excess production to support specialization Local animals were not large enough and trainable, leaving little excess talent available to come…

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    Reading for Ethics in Literature

    Robert Hamill 15 Aug 201529 May 2022Leave a comment

    The Hunger Games, Frankenstein, and more.

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    Magazines and Anthologies with Short Stories

    Robert Hamill 21 Dec 2013Leave a comment

    I noticed the other day when I posted a snapshot of 'Buffalo Girls' that it was the first novel I'd read in 4 months. After…

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    Story or Essay

    Robert Hamill 4 Sep 20134 Sep 2013Leave a comment

    Diem Perdidi by Julie Otsuka It's a good example of the difference to a reader between a story and an essay. Ms. Otsuka could have…

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    On Writing Well – William Zinsser

    Robert Hamill 4 Nov 201129 May 2022Leave a comment

    Subtitle: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction Good, solid advice.

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    Pat Conroy

    Robert Hamill 15 Aug 2011Leave a comment

    My Reading Life by Pat Conroy has some interesting book reports in it. In Gone With the Wind, he tells the story but always against…

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    Harrison Bergeron

    Robert Hamill 28 Jul 201129 May 2022Leave a comment

    Vonnegut's dystopia results from enforcing equality of results rather than equality of opportunity.

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