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Jim Genzano has been writing books since he was a kid, side by side with his identical twin, Steven. No, they never switched places to prank people. Yes, Jim is the evil twin. He works in Philadelphia as an application developer and lives in New Jersey with his wife, Sarah; their two sons, Griffin and Xavier; and their dog, Lady. He still eats lots of pizza even though he’s lactose intolerant. He never learns from his mistakes.

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On Kings

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In the Bible, it says the people asked God, through the prophet Samuel, for a King over them. Samuel warned them against it, saying (1 Samuel 8:11-18), "he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots... He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and oli Read more of this blog post »

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Iron Council (New Crobuzon, #3)

by China Miéville (Goodreads Author)

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Paradise Lost

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Art of the Grimoire: An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells

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“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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“A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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“Father Brown: I never said it was always wrong to enter fairyland, I only said it was always dangerous.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown

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