Review: Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
Like him or hate him (for the most part, I like him) Ernest Hemingway was undoubtedly one of the most influential writers of the 20th...
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Cam Rhys Lay
- Apr 10
- 2 min
Review: Fairy Tale by Stephen King
The premise of Fairy Tale (person from our world crosses over into alternate world/ reality/ universe) is one that King has used many...
Cam Rhys Lay
- Feb 24
- 3 min
Review: Blood in the Garden
Even though I grew up in California, my favorite basketball team was always the Knicks. I don't remember why I became a Knicks fan other...
Cam Rhys Lay
- Dec 14, 2022
- 3 min
"A Mask and a Minivan" - Our Pandemic Road Trip (Part 9 - Epilogue)
This is the ninth post about the 5-month road trip my wife, daughter, and I took in the first half of 2021. If you want to start at the...
Cam Rhys Lay
- Dec 12, 2022
- 4 min
"A Mask and a Minivan" - Our Pandemic Road Trip (Part 8 - Back to Kansas by way of Wyoming)
This is the eighth post about the 5-month road trip my wife, daughter, and I took in the first half of 2021. If you want to start at the...
Cam Rhys Lay
- Dec 7, 2022
- 7 min
"A Mask and a Minivan" - Our Pandemic Road Trip (Part 7 - Missoula)
This is the seventh post about the 5-month road trip my wife, daughter, and I took in the first half of 2021. If you want to start at the...
Cam Rhys Lay
- Aug 11, 2022
- 4 min
"A Mask and a Minivan" - Our Pandemic Road Trip (Part 6 - Oregon)
This is the sixth post about the 5-month road trip my wife, daughter, and I took in the first half of 2021. If you want to start at the...
Cam Rhys Lay
- Jan 21, 2022
- 3 min
Review: Eternals
Warning: Minor Spoilers The proliferation of comic book movies and television series seems to have polarized audiences into two camps:...
Cam Rhys Lay
- Jan 9, 2022
- 5 min
"A Mask and a Minivan" - Our Pandemic Road Trip (Part 5 - We Arrive)
This is the fifth post about the 5-month road trip my wife, daughter, and I took during the first half of 2021 in the middle of the...
Cam Rhys Lay
- Dec 4, 2021
- 5 min
"A Mask and a Minivan" - Our Pandemic Road Trip (Part 4 - Going to California)
This is the fourth post about the 5-month road trip my wife, daughter, and I took earlier this year in the middle of the pandemic. You...
Cam Rhys Lay
- Nov 13, 2021
- 10 min
"A Mask and a Minivan" - Our Pandemic Road Trip (Part 3 - Moab)
This is the third post about the 5-month road trip my wife, daughter, and I took earlier this year in the middle of the pandemic. You can...
Cam Rhys Lay
- Oct 24, 2021
- 10 min
"A Mask and a Minivan" - Our Pandemic Road Trip (Part 2 - Lawrence)
This is the second post about the 5-month road trip my wife, daughter, and I took earlier this year in the middle of the pandemic. If you...
Cam Rhys Lay
- Oct 15, 2021
- 6 min
"A Mask and a Minivan" - Our Pandemic Road Trip (Part 1 - Asheville)
This is the first official post about the 5-month road trip my wife, daughter, and I took earlier this year in the middle of the...
Cam Rhys Lay
- Sep 15, 2021
- 7 min
"A Mask and a Minivan" - Our Pandemic Road Trip (Prologue)
For most of this year, my wife, our baby daughter Eowyn, and I were on a cross country road trip while I worked remote. While we knew...
Cam Rhys Lay
- Aug 25, 2021
- 3 min
Review (sort of): The Elfstones of Shannara by Terry Brooks
Terry Brooks is not a bad writer. Let's get that out of the way right from the get-go. Yes, he should probably still be paying some kind...
Cam Rhys Lay
- Jul 2, 2021
- 3 min
Review: Old Man Star-Lord
A review on the latest Marvel podcast through 6 episodes. As I've previously written, I really enjoyed some of the Stitcher/ Marvel...
Cam Rhys Lay
- Dec 27, 2020
- 2 min
Review: Boom Town by Sam Anderson
Every once in a while you come across a piece of writing or art that feels like it was created just for you. For me, Boom Town was that...
Cam Rhys Lay
- Dec 15, 2020
- 16 min
Stephen King Books Ranked
The Top 20 Books: A Meta-Analysis/ Ranking I came to Stephen King pretty late in my reading life. As someone who got an MFA and has...
Cam Rhys Lay
- Dec 15, 2020
- 2 min
Review: The Pioneers by David McCullough
In The Pioneers, McCullough, perhaps best known for his books John Adams and 1776, traces the lives of several of the early settlers of...
Cam Rhys Lay
- Dec 5, 2020
- 1 min
On Digging Through Old Stuff
One of the interesting things about getting a little older (and, yes I understand that depending on your perspective, thirty-nine is not...
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