Narrow Dog to Indian River, Darlington. Non-fiction. This was a book club selection, and my first taste of the hilarious travel journal. I am apparently not the audience for the hilarious travel journal, though I did finish the book. Right off the bat, I found a couple things distracting: each chapter has its own title […]
Logan’s Run, Nolan and Johnson. Yes. I was given this book some months ago, and finally resolved to read it. I was surprised that it wasn’t awful, though I shouldn’t have been surprised that it is superior to the movie, in at least some respects. Most notably, Logan is a more active protagonist than the […]
Last Exit to Babylon: Volume 4: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, ed. Grubbs, Kovacs, Crimmins. Yes. I continue to enjoy this collection, and express my enduring gratitude to the NESFA team for putting it together. This volume contains the middle chunk of the Dilvish tales, and the three stories that constitute My Name Is […]
Periodicals Life magazine 1936-1972 Popular Science magazine 1872-present Popular Mechanics 1905-2005 New York Times 1851-1922 Notes and Queries 1850-1853 Punch 1841-1921 Scientific American 1861-1896 Scientific American 1846-1869 Allo Police Archives Historical Newspapers Online (compiled by U of Ill.) Arizona Digital Newspaper Directory Chronicling America 1836-1922 Project Gutenberg periodicals Washington State historical Newspapers California Digital Newspaper […]
NF, Poop happened! : a history of the world from the bottom up / by Sarah Albee 2010, nr GN, RESISTANCE, Jablonski, Carla 2010 (nr) GN, Koko Be Good, Wang, 2010, nr TF, The Year We Were Famous, Dagg, 2011 (NR) TF, The Big Crunch, Hautman, 2011, NR NF, To Timbuktu: Nine Countries, Two People, […]
The thinking person’s favorite magician picks up Notre Dame. Teller’s patribiography also includes an FP photo.
Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth about Exercise and Health, Kolata. Non-fiction. Kolata recounts several personal experiences in a multi-decade journey of discovery that leads her to the conclusion that we don’t know a whole lot about what kinds of exercise are good. (Disclaimer: my book club source indicated that I could extract everything I […]
Miracle and Other Christmas Stories, Willis. Yes. This was a book club recommendation, though I don’t need much encouragement to read Connie Willis. I enjoyed the collection more than I would have expected given that I’m not much of a fan of novelty (especially holiday) literature, but somewhat less than I would have expected given […]
I’d been looking at the “you need to upgrade your WordPress software” warning for a few weeks, wondering whether the fixed vulnerabilities existed in 2.7.x, when this broke (Scoble was on 2.7 and got hit, so the vulnerability goes back at least that far), and I finally bit the bullet. It’s harder than it ought […]