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Proffitt and Bex Unchained in Charleston (Neil Says Hi, By the Way)

By On September 26, 2012 · 14 Comments

I miss being part of the churning, noisy energy of Rock Bridge High School in Columbia, Missouri.  I miss being a teacher, a colleague, an employee and a friend.  Mostly, I miss these things because I miss telling and listening to stories.  At lunch, in the halls, during the five minutes before and after class, [...]

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The Wake, in which our re-read comes to an end…or does it?

By On October 10, 2011 · 1 Comment

Be aware – if you are popping in on this post and not participating in the re-read, there are major spoilers to follow! Also, you should totally participate in the re-read.

So, who died?

Nobody died.  How can you kill an idea?  How can you kill the personification of an action?

Then, what died?  Who [...]

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The Kindly Ones, in which certain things end whether we like it or not

By On September 25, 2011 · 5 Comments

“Can’t say I’ve ever been too fond of beginnings, myself.  Messy little things. Give me a good ending anytime.  You know where you are with an ending.”

I suppose we do, at that.  Or, at the very least, we know a bit about where we are not.  Not anymore.  The Kindly Ones opens with a [...]

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Fables and Reflections: a re-read-re-post

By On September 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Note from G4 – the content below was originally divided into two posts, published on August 14th and August 21st, 2011. They were among the posts we lost due to database issues in early September. Therefore, they are best read after the post covering A Game of You [...]

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Sandman Re-Read, Brief Lives and Worlds’ End (repost)

By On September 19, 2011 · Leave a Comment

(These two were among our lost posts, back in the dark days of “the database malfunction of September, 2011.” I’ve done my best to recreate them as they originally appeared)

Sometimes I second guess my past self in matters concerning love.  “That guy never really meant that much to me, did he?  I was just [...]

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Sandman re-read: Season of Mists

By On July 17, 2011 · 15 Comments

We try to keep it pretty clean around here, but I have to say, when I picked up Season of Mists to prepare for this re-read, my first thought was, “Shit’s about to get real, now.”

From the opening in Destiny’s Garden, through the negotiations for Hell and the closing of Destiny’s book [...]

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Sandman Project: The Doll’s House

By On June 19, 2011 · 22 Comments

Super brief summary in which I reveal something of a girl crush on Rose Walker: Rose Walker.  I love that name.  Every time someone says it, I want to steal it for myself. Rose will go on to deliver one of my favorites pieces of dialogue in all The Sandman series, you [...]

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Preludes and Nocturnes

By On June 5, 2011 · 46 Comments

If you haven’t read our post “A Prelude to Preludes and Nocturnes” you might want to check it out here first.  It has our policy on spoilers as well as the calendar for the re-read.

Super brief summary because, hey, we’ve all read it by now. First published in 1991, [...]

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