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Walton, Jo (2011). Among Others. NY: Tor Books. 304 pages. Among Others is the tale, in the form of a diary, of young woman by the name Mori (short for Morwenna) Phelps. As the book opens Mori has run away from her mother following the death of her twin sister, and gone to live with [...] Anything I write about plans for reading this or that book by this or that author should be taken with a grain of salt, since I am very prone to getting lost in the wilderness of books and wandering off in an unanticipated direction. Caveat reader, or something like that, and with that here’s what [...] You never know what piece of flotsam will call to life a long-slumbering memory. If you view these pictures of Libraries of the Rich and Famous and scroll down to the last one, you’ll learn that the library depicted is enormous (70,000 books worth $4 million) and belongs to noted academic Richard Macksey. Many years [...] My reading became extremely scattershot over the last week or so. Irritation with A Game of Thrones led me to pick up C.J. Cherryh’s Downbelow Station, a book I previously attempted last spring in the wake of the Brain Incident. Now both are sitting on my nightstand, stacked atop two from the library, Howl’s Moving [...] There are certain books I could happily read over and over again. The Lord of the Rings comes to mind. I read it probably two dozen times by the time I reached junior high, and still return to its pages periodically. A Game of Thrones is not proving to be one of those books. I’ve [...] In the end I caved and Dicken’s Christmas Stories is now living in my car until I have a chance to return it to the library. I have it mind to take another run at Mr. Dickens, maybe with A Tale of Two Cities, but that will be further down the road. Someday. Maybe. Perhaps. [...] Here are two things you may not know about me. 1. I love Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. It is my absolute, favorite holiday story, a position formed by multiple viewings of multiple versions of the tale courtesy of the UHF stations of my youth. It seemed then that at any point of the Christmas season [...] First order of business: today is International Beer Day. I trust you are all intent on doing your part. Second order of business: NPR’s annual summer reading poll concerns fantasy and science fiction. You can help them whittle down the field to the top 100. Carl V. covers the flaws of the list pretty well, [...] I think I’m going to have put aside Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. Three or so months ago I mentioned I might pick it up as my next non-fiction read, and I did, and I have made little progress since. I don’t think the fault is with the book itself. Rebecca West is a fine [...] The whole thing started innocently enough, as these things usually do, with a trip to the library. It was intended to be a quick trip and it was a quick trip, but somehow I managed to exit the library with three new books. At least they were borrowed, not bought. I picked up Eye of [...] Fermor, Patrick Leigh (1977). A Time of Gifts. NY: The New York Review of Books. 316 pages. The Library of Congress cataloging data just inside the cover of A Time of Gifts lists the subject headings of ‘Europe-Description and travel’ and ‘Europe, Central-Description and travel’ but one could just as easily describe it as part [...] I found this meme at the Boston Bibliophile, although it apparently originated at Stuck In A Book. Play along if the spirit so moves you. 1. The book I’m currently reading. My current fiction read is Winter’s Tale, by Mark Helprin. I bought this book several years ago, when John Scalzi praised it on his [...] One thing about convalescing, you can get a lot of reading done. And so, here’s a brief review. DeVoto, Bernard (1948). The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto. NY: TinHouse Books. 127 pages. When he wasn’t winning Pulitzers or National Book Awards, Bernard DeVoto penned this brief ode to the joys of the cocktail. Long out of [...] The reading list for 2010 is updated and closed. The reading list for 2011 is now open. In December of 2009 my to-be-read pile number about 190. This December past it stood at about 220. I attribute this jump not only to a lack of time to read in general, but to the large of [...] I have here some odds and ends for your consideration and possible enjoyment. First – yet more pictures of the Rocket, mostly from a trip to the Paragon Carousel. With which she was completely unimpressed. Also in the imagery line – a collection of covers of vintage men’s magazines. Which taken as a whole seem [...] |
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