Venusaur

Er-hem. A review of a book I recently read.

For all its faults, The German Mujahid (which is called An Unfinished Business in British English), is a complex, multilayered novel that speaks on many levels at once—some meant to be blatantly obvious; others subtler, better discovered with the patience of careful reading.

The (obvious) plot of the novel is Malrich’s comparison of Islamic fundamentalists with Nazis: the analogy works, but only to a point, and there are ...

This tale is about Cáshlan "Cassan" and his buddies Cuinír "Cuinel" and Aros "Areto"--and a loaf of bread.

Cassan, Cuinel, and Areto looked down, despondently, at the rations. There was only one wafer left, the one given to them by the dwarves—called a suspiciously jaw-breaking khâbhlkgalg—which none of them were in a hurry to even attempt to pronounce (much less eat)—and it had only been a week since they’d set out. And they’d made the most of

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