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M. Laszlo is the pseudonym of a reclusive author living in Bath, Ohio. According to rumor, he based the pen name on the name of the Paul Henreid character in Casablanca, Victor Laszlo.
M. Laszlo has lived and worked all over the world, and he has kept exhaustive journals and idea books corresponding to each location and post.
It is said that the maniacal habit began in childhood during summer vacations—when his family began renting out Robert Lowell’s family home in Castine, Maine.
The habit continued in 1985 when, as an adolescent, he spent the summer in London, England. In recent years, he revisited that journal/idea book and based his first work, The Phantom Glare of Day, on the characters, topics, and themes contained within the youthful ...more

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Anastasia’s Midnight Song: the Background

Anastasia’s Midnight Song follows from an idea book that I kept during my senior year of high school, fall of 1986-spring 1987. And it’s no surprise why Anastasia’s Midnight Song would end up trafficking in the juxtaposition of adolescence and the presence of evil: all of my time that senior year was divided between high school and countless journeys into the dodgy city—San Francisco.
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M. Laszlo wants to read The Way of Serenity: Finding Peace and Happiness in the Serenity Prayer by Father Jonathan Morris	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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M. Laszlo rated a book it was amazing The Three Ordinary Voices of God by Matthew Kelly (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The book starts out brilliantly and really grabs the reader's attention. The author admonishes us that it is possible to mis-live your life if you don't listen to what Kelly calls the three ordinary voices of God. Kelly is correct when he defines the ...more
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M. Laszlo rated a book really liked it To Build a Fire by Jack London	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Pretty much everyone one loves this story, and I'm no different. Still, every time I read it, I get the uncanny feeling that the man really truly wanted to die out there in the cold of the Yukon. Or perhaps he only unconsciously wanted to die and thu ...more
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M. Laszlo rated a book it was amazing Life is Messy by Matthew Kelly (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is a collection of short philosophical essays, each one of which is totally accessible and relatable. I don't even know where to begin, so I'll just randomly mention the things that really stuck out for me. At one point, Kelly mentions the Japan ...more
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M. Laszlo rated a book really liked it The Circle of Ceridwen (Circle of Ceridwen Saga, #1) by Octavia Randolph (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is proper historical fiction. There is no fantasy element at all really. The book begins with a young girl all on her own and raised in a priory. In so doing, the author starts out with a character the reader can really care about. At the age of ...more
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M. Laszlo rated a book really liked it For Your Eyes Only (James Bond, #8) by Ian Fleming	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Read this when I was a kid and loved it. Had to reread it. The anthology was just as I remember it. The first short-fiction work 'From a View to a Kill' deals with couriers in Paris taking classified documents from the British Embassy to this or that ...more
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M. Laszlo rated a book liked it Silas Marner by George Eliot	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This one has always been difficult for me to reread. Every time I do, the unrelenting narrative voice wears me out. The first few chapters are filled with exposition or what today's readers might call a proverbial information dump. To the best of my ...more
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M. Laszlo rated a book really liked it The Florios of Sicily by Stefania Auci	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This book is thought of and marketed as a tale of a family of non-aristocrats who came to Sicily and rose to great power in various ways—the spice trade, silk, bark, sulfur, lace, commercial fishing, and real estate. For me, though, the book is reall ...more
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M. Laszlo rated a book really liked it The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is a nice little book. Is it inspirational? Is it fantasy? Is it historical fantasy? Who cares. It's literature, and it's dedicated to the proposition that Man's obsession with time causes misery. In other words, it is not Adam and Eve who sente ...more
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M. Laszlo rated a book really liked it The Family by Mario Puzo	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This book is a triumph of research, of course, but it is also quite impressive how confident the author is about interpreting Italian history and getting into the minds of the Borgias as they forge said history. The book follows the patriarch as he m ...more
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