Saturday, January 25, 2020

Metaphorical Love

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Here's a song I'm liking a lot recently. I gather from the comments on this YouTube version that the singer/songwriter, Kate Davis, ...
Monday, January 13, 2020

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 1/11/19

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Most of this stuff came in last week, but you may have noticed by now that this blog is in extremely low-content mode. (You may also have ...
Friday, January 03, 2020

Quote of the Week: Retail Politics

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Normally, officeholders in a state like Texas have differed from eminent public servants in the federal government  primarily in the way som...
Wednesday, January 01, 2020

Favorite Books of 2019

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So this is not going to go the way it used to. Typically, I have a long explanation up front -- see last year  for a type specimen -- abou...
Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 12/28

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Normally, since I missed yesterday for lazy-on-vacation reasons, I'd just roll these books over to next week. But next week is an enti...
Monday, December 23, 2019

Musica, Dein Kannst Lieblich Kunst

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No, I don't speak German. (My younger son does, kind of. At least he took it for five years in school.) But my high school Madrigal grou...
Monday, December 16, 2019

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 12/14/19

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I have a book to write about this week as well: a new SF novel. Lost Helix  is by Scott Coon, and I think it's his first novel. (The...
Monday, December 09, 2019

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 12/7/19

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I aten't dead. But this blog only exists in as much as I have something to say here, and I haven't had a lot of that lately. Wor...
Monday, October 21, 2019

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 10/18/19

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Three books came in the mail last  week -- all things I purchased -- and somehow I neglected to write about them last Sunday.  So here the...
Friday, October 04, 2019

14th Anniversary Post

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I have an excessively tidy mind, but it manifests in pretty idiosyncratic ways. For example, October 4th was the 14th anniversary of the b...
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Thursday, October 03, 2019

The Pigeon Tunnel by John Le Carre

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So, I've said this before, and I know it's weird about me: I will frequently  read the memoirs or other miscellaneous nonfiction o...
Wednesday, October 02, 2019

The Last Days of New Paris by China Mieville

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In 1933, a group of French Surrealists described various "irrational embellishments" of Paris, in their journal Le Surrealisme a...
Tuesday, October 01, 2019

On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

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The really  impressive creators are the ones who seem to be able to do anything -- who jump from genre to genre semi-randomly, going where...
Monday, September 30, 2019

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 9/28/19

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This time out, I have books in two categories: three newly-published books, and two that I paid for myself but just came in the mail. Ne...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Service With a Smile by P.G. Wodehouse

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I will never write a Wodehousian novel: I know that. But the one in my head that I would  write, if I were capable, would be the Unified F...