Jason R. Koivu
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Go Home, Oaxaca. You're Drunk.
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Beyond Barlow (Beyond Barlow #1)
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A Winter of Chains (Beyond Barlow #3)
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Tears of the Ancient and Other Stories
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Perusing Portland
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The Rue of Hope (Beyond Barlow #2)
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The glorious saga continues! Ugh. "Saga." The word sounds bloated, melodramatically windswept, ponderous. I don't find Patrick O'Brian's seafaring war epic to be any of those things. It suits me. Perhaps it will suit you, too. Do you like historical f ...more |
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Now we're talkin', yo! Badass mo-fo, Richard Sharpe gets back to what he does best: kickin' ass and lovin' the ladies! Oooh yeah! I don't know what Bernard Cornwell was thinking with that last book in the Sharpe series (#4, Sharpe's Trafalgar)...Well ...more |
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The Thursday Murder Club is a mystery series, but let's be honest, the draw is the characters, not necessarily the mystery. And boy howdy, Richard Osman really delivered the character goods in The Last Devil to Die, the fourth book in the series. He ...more | |
"When people say they don’t like books where the characters are all unlikable I think “hear me out: Wuthering Heights.� These people are all shit. But I hear you protest “but but, madam, consider if you will that they have reason to be from their past"
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&±ç³Ü´Ç³Ù;â€�A woman,â€� wrote Virginia Woolf, â€�must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.â€� This line from Woolf’s 1929 A Room of One’s Own has become a canonical statement in the history of feminist thought in a text much celebrated and deb"
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Rumpole of the Bailey is former barrister (lawyer) John Mortimer's first crack at fictionalizing his former life. His hero, Horace Rumpole, toils down at London's Old Bailey defending morally tarnished persons, who usually didn't "do it"...at least n ...more | |
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"Very enjoyable" doesn't sound like the right thing to say of a book about the abduction of impoverished children in the slums of an impossibly overcrowded city in India, but the fact remains, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line is just that. ...more | |
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Bertie Wooster is back at Totleigh Towers fighting off the threat of marriage with dippy Madeline Bassett in the charmingly delightful Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves. Good ol' school chum Gussie Fink-Nottle's engagement to Madeline is all that's saving Bert ...more |
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Shit gets real this time around, all too real. Literally, the word shit is used quite often in this installment of James Herriot's warm-fuzzy tales of life as a Yorkshire vet. The more adult tone of this book compared to the previous two is a bit jar ...more | |
“To have one man's nut lay against another man's is a most awkward position to find oneself.”
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“Para todo mal, mezcal, y para
todo bien, tambien. - A Oaxacan Proverb”
― Go Home, Oaxaca. You're Drunk.
todo bien, tambien. - A Oaxacan Proverb”
― Go Home, Oaxaca. You're Drunk.
“In Mexico, dishes pile up in the sink just as fast as in the States, goddamn it.”
― Go Home, Oaxaca. You're Drunk.
― Go Home, Oaxaca. You're Drunk.
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more useful.”
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“I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.”
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“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
― The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
“I agree that it's a shame some books have to suffer ratings that clearly are invalid. However I can't think of a way to prevent it, and I didn't see any ideas in the thread either (I did skim though).
I hope you'll appreciate that if we just start deleting ratings whenever we feel like it, that we've gone down a censorship road that doesn't take us to a good place.”
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I hope you'll appreciate that if we just start deleting ratings whenever we feel like it, that we've gone down a censorship road that doesn't take us to a good place.”
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Karlyflower *The Vampire Ninja, Luminescent Monster & Wendigo Nerd Goddess of Canada (according to The Hulk)*

That and having less tolerance for youngins ;)
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Karlyflower *The Vampire Ninja, Luminescent Monster & Wendigo Nerd Goddess of Canada (according to The Hulk)*

Bingo! This was at the Modern Art museum in LA, probably a couple years back. I call this piece "Spaghetti con Koivu".

Evil Wiener that's who!
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Karlyflower *The Vampire Ninja, Luminescent Monster & Wendigo Nerd Goddess of Canada (according to The Hulk)*

I have been review stalking you for awhile now, nice to make it mutual :D

I was going to act all like "what?!", but let's be honest, this sums up our relationship to a tee."
Those were my thoughts.

I was going to act all like "what?!", but let's be honest, this sums up our relationship to a tee.

I had to make it politically correct! Can I meet you halfway and call you a transient?

The "cheese fries" that I've had usually come smothered in a blanket of something like Cheddar or American, whereas the Parme..."
Sounds amazing, definitely will want to try soon. And yes, I tried truffle fries- I still prefer curly or cheese. But any potato related food will satisfy my cravings:)




Keep checking those bushes!

Thanks for your address, Jason. It makes stalking that much easier.

I'm so glad to be connected to another Patrick O'Brian fan. I want to reread the Aubrey/Maturin series again one day soon.
To books!

My head stopped swelling when I got into college and realized I didn't know jack sh!t. Before that though, I had cauliflower ear issues from scraping them on door frames every time I'd walk into a room.
Putting out a book, for me, has been a humbling experience thus far. Sending your work off for others to judge would take the pride and arrogance out of the most Mr. Darciest of authors! But having people actually like your work, to praise it, take it seriously and want to read more, that makes me weak in the knees so much so that I doubt I could stand on any self-made pedestal even if I wanted to.
As for spam…I'll still fry it up and eat it now and then, but I don't like to foist it upon others. Perhaps at some point it'll become necessary, but I won't do it willingly. I'd love to rid the world of junk mail, telemarketers and salesmen of all sorts. I really don't want to add to it.



Richard, I saw where things were headed and I just decided to beat mother nature to the punch.

If other examples are anything to go by, the proper sacrifice would be quality - I need to pump out at least a half dozen "books" per year…which dear moneyed reader are available for purchase on *da-dah-da-DAAHHH!* -->> AMAZON!!!

Scientology? I'm getting a very clammy feeling. Keep your skull smooth and hairless, Jason; then when the aliens try to invade your mind, their messages will just bounce off. By the way, my skull will one day look like yours, only I won't have to shave it to get it that way...

Oh man, when you turn to the darkside it becomes all about the spamming. Immediately they're like "Start a blog!", "Do an event!", "Promote! Promote! Promote!". It's the kind of pressure probably felt by new recruits to Scientology.

Not a problem buddy :)

And inserts their naked body between you and computer.
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