Your Humble Blogger should probably admit it. The only reason I picked up The Day of the Triffids at the local library was because I had already picked up The Night of the Triffids, and figured I should read them…
Your Humble Blogger had never read The Day of the Triffids before, nor seen the movie. I know, I know. Ambulatory plants that spit poison and kill. Why hadn’t I read it when I was fourteen? Why wasn’t it at…
To be fair, whilst whinging about how certain books of specfic are not given their due in fannish circles (unless, of course, they are, because I’m not very far in any fannish circles these days), I should admit that Blue…
I think Decider, aka the architect one, has to go into my list of fave Dick Francis books. I’m not altogether sure why. Sure, it’s got all the Dick Francis stuff: protagonist with an odd or obscure specialty, foolish and/or…
A Tale of Two Cities is well-known to be Dickens for People Who Don’t Like Dickens. The question, then, is whether it is also Dickens for People Who Like Dickens. I think the answer is yes. So, what is it…
Dang. It looks like not only did I never write about Spin, which I knew I hadn’t done, but I never even put it on the list of Books I Am Behind. Which list is currently fourteen books long. And…
I think it will not come as a surprise to Gentle Readers that Cyrano de Bergerac is one of my favorite plays. There’s a role for Your Humble Blogger. Well, I can dream. During a recent scramble for Something to…
One of the things about living in a town with a rather concentrated Jewish population is that I can buy taiglach at the local market on the day of Erev Rosh Hashanah. True, buying taiglach was an error—Your Humble Blogger…
It’s not that I didn’t enjoy The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip. I did. It was perfectly good. In places, it was absolutely knock-your-socks-off good. I just didn’t think the ending was knock-your-socks-off good, and ultimately I finished the book…
Another bit of re-reading done over the summer was the not-quite-complete Sherlock Holmes canon. In bits and pieces, I read all the short stories and two of the novels, as well as part of The Hound of the Baskervilles. I…