I’ve never worked so hard to finish a book. After reading William Morris’s The Well At World’s End, I can feel every aching step, every…
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“Hey, buy this for me for Christmas.” So my wife and I have this unspoken arrangement. We spend so much time trying to get Christmas…
So I joined a book club. Like most good things in life, what we want and what we find we need are different things. Had…
“Be the Dude” Now there’s some internet-friendly, tweet-ready advice for ya. Welcome to a line of laid-back thought claiming many disciples, inspiring Dude-A-Thons and Lebowski…
Why do I read the books I read? Got my reasons. Three of ’em: There’s the stuff I read because I should (another turn through…
My favorite drug got the full-length treatment in Daniel Levitin’s science-lite best seller. I’d heard the guy interviewed a long time back, methinks on a…
Just finished reading Chuck Klosterman’s Eating The Dinosaur. Twice. It’s not that the prose was so poetic that I had to roll it around my…
The cover of this cheese-ball, spooky-font, mass-market paperback shouted it loud: “The most influential science fiction novel of the 20th century!” I call bullshit. If…
But what to do with it all? I once saw an interview with the author whence he noted the improbability that those who reviewed his…
This book has been on my shelf for about 10 years. Since the late nineties, it’s been skulking there in the corner. Bright-oranged and baby-blued,…