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This is a work of fiction

Most of what I blog is.  But I thought about what I read.  Read read or read.  Makes no difference. I prefer non-fiction because it opens up the world just a bit more in throwing light on an idea, concept, fact or person, an achievement or a relationship,  a root cause or what stems what. Biographies, Business of running a business, Human origins, Human thinking, Psychology or Philosophy, Medicine or Engineering, Architecture or History.  The subjects are varied and the magic is in how the author is able to convey information without sounding pretentious or pedantic. But I do have my share of non fiction favorites.  Genres perhaps.  Thrillers and Mysteries mainly. Comedy or humor as a stand alone (both fictional or not) but very few authors can pull off a 300 page tome just trying to make you laugh. George Carlin could.  Pelham G. Woodhouse had it down with Jeeves and his crummy cast of characters.  Bill Cosby with his Fatherhood and...