Posts Tagged ‘books’
Crazy times. Things have never been more chaotic in our household — TempCat™ coming and going, social and wedding planning schedules that are utterly insane, financial planning, honeymoon planning, plus both our jobs, my framebuilding thing, and all that jazz. You’d think that this would be the causation of some pretty interesting arguments. In reality, [...]
Digging into Karl Schroeder’s Queen of Candesce right now. I love the guy’s world-building, and Virga is a memorable locale. It’s the last of the trio of books I bought at Uncle Hugo’s a few weeks ago, and turning into the best of the three. The others were Edelman’s Infoquake and Morgan’s Altered Carbon. The [...]
Recently, J.D. Salinger packed his bags and headed off for a meeting with the Great Literary Agent in the Sky. This got me to thinking about The Catcher in the Rye, and how I really can’t stand it. I mean, I understand the literary significance of the book, but that may well be its only [...]
So I’ve been tearing through my reading list the past few months, putting the kibosh on buying new books and focusing on the ones I’ve purchased in the past and not yet read. Right now, I’m reading Eragon, which people apparently loved. I remember the ranting about how it was amazing that a 15-year old [...]
So this morning, before leaving for the office, an idea for a book popped into my head. And I had to start writing. About six words in, I discovered that this idea for a sci-fi novel with an huge scale in space and time, with political intrigue, war, aliens — all the things you’d associate [...]
A short while ago, John Scalzi had a post in his blog about the book Mirrored Heavens, in which there was much bantering by readers about regarding the ability of Russia to regain “superpower” status. While that was all entertaining, I felt it missed the point, and asked about whether it made sense to militarize [...]
So last year, I made my comeback to racing on July 4th, at the Northfield Criterium. I DNF’ed (did not finish), as I was way out of shape and in no condition to race. In another of my blogs, three days later, I wrote a piece about the experience and why, at the age of [...]
My friend Jen has her first book out, a collection of short stories. And in the interest of helping a friend out, I’m posting a link to her work. If you like your sci-fi dark and — at times — squicky, this is your book. I’ve read her stuff, and while it’s not my usual [...]
