I was alternately amused and disappointed in Mark Dunn’s Zounds! A Browser’s Dictionary of Interjections. It has a lot of fun stuff (including cartoons by Sergio Aragonés, who is evidently still alive), but a lot of omissions and errors, as…
I never read any of the Freddy books as a youth. I don’t know why. I suspect that the local library failed to stock them. A family friend gave our Perfect Non-Reader Freddy Goes to Florida, which we read as…
In case any Gentle Reader has difficulty keeping track of which Dick Francis is which, and I can’t imagine why you would, High Stakes is the toymaker one. And for those having difficulty keeping track of which publisher is which,…
Your Humble Blogger has very fond memories of The Westing Game. Reading it through this time, it didn’t work for me. Perhaps it dated badly. I’m not sure. I suspect that if I read it again in a few years,…
One similarity between being a knitter and being a parent of a newborn is that both pastimes require other activities to be done whilst both hands are engaged, and the parent/knitter has to watch the child/sock fairly closely. Television ought…
As I mentioned lo these many years ago, well, two years ago, or nearly, the novels of John Scalzi present an interesting take on internet marketing. For one thing, it’s unlikely I would have read them if I didn’t read…
I think I’ve mentioned before in this Tohu Bohu that most states produce a list of Good Children’s Books each year. Well, the libraries and schools in the states produce the list. For a few years, I’ve taken recommendations from…
Rereading Bedknob and Broomstick made me want to reread The Enchanted Castle, which I did, and I enjoyed it very much. And I think that’s all there is to say about that. Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,-Vardibidian….
So I admit that I got to W.P. Kinsella through the movie Field of Dreams. I saw the movie lo these many, and a few years later caught hold of the book Shoeless Joe and was impressed not only by…
[John Scalzi is hosting an Official “Win a Copy of Coffee Shop” Contest wherein the contestants are to write a scathing review of a putative 2009 book by Mr. Scalzi. I violated the rules, and besides wound up writing something…