Barbara Ann Cerda

The Devil's Banker by Gary Van Haas Based on a True Story A STUDIO7360 review. From its first page, The Devil's Banker pulls you onto a midcentury movie lot — the kind you'd find at MGM or Warner Brothers in their golden age. The voice is pure film noir, rich with detail, and the imagery is immediate. Inspector Serge Porter steps into frame — handsome, well-tailored, fedora and all — and you know you're in capable hands. It’s this characterization that paints a clear picture of Inspector...

By Ta-Nehisi Coates Book Review Impressions It is thought that the first documented African slaves arrived on these shores in the year 1612. This book is so rich in historical benchmarks and telling(s) of times and people that sculptured who we are as a nation. There’s little space in this review to highlight all the points discussed. They are all so very relevant. So, I’ll speak to a few. I waited a long time for this journal; the writing is better than I’d hoped. In each...

Impressions A monotheism experiment – the climax of the fairly recent belief in a single, singular, nonhuman, and indivisible creator God as defined by postexilic Judaism, as renounced by Zoroastrian Dualism and Christian Trinitarianism, and as revived in the Sufi interpretation of tawhid; God is not the creator of everything that exists. God is everything that exists. ~ God A Human Story Nothing prepared me for this uplifting treatise on the intelligence of our evolution. We may be...