Scooter Chronicles

This afternoon I finished reading “The Divinity Student” by Michael Cisco.

Here is a quick rundown thanks to Amazon.Com and Publishers Weekly:

After a miraculous recovery from near death, a young man known only as the Divinity Student is beset by strange dreams whose lingering effects further alienate him from his fellows. Abruptly, he is sent away from the chill, damp confines of the seminary to work as a word-finder in the vibrant, chaotic desert city of San Veneficio, scanning old texts to record any unknown words he may find. There he is pulled into a covert plot to reconstruct the lost Catalog of Unknown Words,...

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It was announced this past week that the city of Detroit will demolish most of Tiger Stadium (another LINK about “The Corner”). You can read the Yahoo ARTICLE about it.

It is sad to know it will be torn down, but it is also not surprising. What can be done with a 96 year old ballpark? Not much. It is in need of renovation. Before it hosted events for the Super Bowl, it hadn’t been used for much of anything....

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