Stocking Up on Books for the New Year (cuz you can never have too many)
Every holiday is a book buying holiday, especially when there is a bookstore gift card from another recent holiday burning …
Monthly Archives: December 2005
My Favorite Five in ’05
It’s close enough to the end of the year that I think I can safely list the books I liked …
Coming to Terms With Probability
Brian Greene has messed up my cozy conception of the world. The Fabric of the Cosmos has taken me through …
Read to Live, Live to Read
Maureen Corrigan, author of Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading, has a bookworm’s dream career. Not only does she teach literature …
Pitting Books Against Each Other
A passge from Cryptonomicon that made me laugh: Enoch Root has wedged himself into the back of the fuselage, where …
A Few Links
Here’s a few links for you to browse while you are taking a break from Christmas and Hankkah celebrations. Harry …
Calm, Cool and Collected
Montaigne’s essay “On Restraining Your Will” is about emotional moderation. Montaigne recommends and strives to keep an even keel and …
Here Comes the Sun!
Thank you everyone for the wonderful Solstice wishes. My Bookman and I had a lovely day yesterday, even the dog …
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Happy Solstice! Image from Minnesota Valley Wildlife Refuge
Bah Humbug!
Even though, as I have mentioned recently, I don’t celebrate Christmas, I still love Dicken’s A Christmas Carol. Now pair …
