Helmet of Horror
The Helmet of Horror by Victor Pelevin isn’t especially horrific in the usual RIP kind of way as in giant …
Monthly Archives: October 2011
Ulysses Update: Episode 15 (part one)
For awhile there I thought this evening’s adventures in plumbing were going to keep me from blogging but the crisis …
Sunday Reading Ramble
It’s been a beautiful fall weekend in Minneapolis and I had hoped to be able to get outside to start …
Of Note: Library Ebook Survey
I have two books I finished this week, Marguerite Yourcenar’s Memoirs of Hadrian, and just this evening on the train …
Blogiversary and a Giveaway
Today is the 8 year blogiversary of So Many Books. Gosh, that makes me feel old. Lots of things have …
A Capacious Hold-All
Have you heard of A New Literary History of America edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors? I hadn’t until …
Ulysses Update, Episode 14: Wowsa!
Let me just get it out there right away, episode 14, Oxen of the Sun, is freaking awesome! Joyce was …
E-books and Publishers and Libraries
Library Journal has an interesting piece up called Our Ebook Future that consists of three interviews with three different publishers. …
Even Protesters Need a Library
No need for a pretend Friday because it’s Thursday, but I’m still in need of a Friday so maybe today …
Reuse and Recycle
Kenneth Goldsmith, a writing professor at the University of Pennsylvania, has an interesting article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, …
